Hamas

Strong indications that the Popular Resistance Committees have become a kind of sub-contractor for Hamas, enabling it to encourage attacks against Israel

The appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadana, Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) leader, to the post of general supervisor of the Palestinian police and ministry of the interior again demonstrated the linkage between Hamas and the PRC. Jamal Abu Samhadana, who has a long history of attacks against Israel and of collaboration with Hamas, made it clear Read more...

Jordan accuses Hamas of planning terrorist attacks on its territory, directed by one of its Syria-based military leaders

The Jordanian authorities have recently announced they had exposed terrorist activity of the Hamas movement inside the kingdom’s territory. These terrorist operatives, some of which arrested by the Jordanian authorities, were involved in smuggling arms and ammunition into Jordan as well as gathering information on potential targets, including sites and senior figures. Read more...

Osama bin Laden’s new tape condemns the “economic boycott” of the Hamas government as part of a general Zionist-West Crusade against Islam.

While the Hamas spokesman expressed reservations about bin Laden’s comments, Mahmoud al-Zahar publicly identified with the global jihad’s struggle. That reflected the movement’s dilemma of having to navigate between adherence to radical Islamic ideology and attempts to obscure it to cope with the exigencies of the Palestinian arena. Read more...

Senior terrorist-operative joins the Hamas administration: Jamal Abu Samhadana appointed general supervisor of the interior ministry and the police.

On April 1, Siyad Siyam, the interior minister of the Hamas government, announced he was appointing Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), as general supervisor of the interior ministry and policeThe appointment set a precedent by being the first time the new Hamas government appointed to a senior position a self-declared Read more...

Discrepancies between statements made by Hamas to Palestinian and Arab media and those made to Western media

The Hamas movement, in an attempt to bridge the significant gap between its platform and ideology, denying Israel’s existence and supporting terrorism, and the demands of the international community, pursues a media strategy of deliberate ambiguity and double-talk. Within the context of said strategy, its leaders issue various, at times contradictory, statements on the core Read more...

Ideological commitment to radical Islam vis-à-vis the constraints of Palestinian political reality

Ideological commitment to radical Islam vis-à-vis the constraints of Palestinian political reality: faced with concerns voiced by global jihad elements that Hamas might change its ways, spokesmen for the Hamas movement clarify that it does not intend to change its fundamental positions. They particularly stress the continuation of terrorism (the “resistance” and jihad) and non-recognition Read more...

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