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Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for Hamas's military wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, has gained prominence in the office of Hamas-aligned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and among radical Islamist groups in Turkey. In these circles Abu
Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlets argue that Hamas’s affiliation with Shi’ites nullifies their claim of championing Palestine as an Islamic cause.
Yakup Erdal, a 41-year-old Turkish jihadist killed in Lebanon on November 21 by an Israeli drone strike, was groomed by a high-ranking operative with longstanding ties to Iranian intelligence, according to confidential documents obtained by Nordic
In a video address to a conference of the International Islamic Forum of Parliamentarians, held on November 24, 2023, during the current ceasefire in Gaza, Hamas' leader abroad Khaled Mash'al said that his movement's October 7 attack had shown Israel to be "as weak as cobwebs" and had defeated Israel on the psychological, military and intelligence levels.
On November 22, 2023, Hamas announced that four of its operatives were killed in southern Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike. Notably, two of the operatives were Turkish nationals: Yakup Erdal and Seyfullah Bilal Öztürk, while the other two were Lebanese: Ahmad Oudh and Khaled Minawi.