HUGE BREAKING: Major Lawsuit Filed Over Oct. 7 Hamas Attack
Families of American victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre have filed a giant federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. against Palestinian-American billionaire Bashar Masri and four of his companies.
Let's break it down 🧵
🔸️The suit accuses Masri of aiding and abetting Hamas by embedding terror infrastructure inside so-called “economic development” projects in Gaza.
🔸️Masri allegedly used his reputation to secure millions in funding from USAID, the World Bank, the UN, the EU, and others.
🔸️Plaintiffs claim he secretly partnered with Hamas to build tunnels, hide rockets, and host terrorist operations beneath flagship properties.
🔸️The Gaza Industrial Estate, located near the Israeli border, allegedly housed attack tunnels, served as a staging ground for the October 7 invasion, and diverted solar energy from donor-funded infrastructure to power Hamas’s underground network.
🔸️Masri’s luxury hotels — including the Blue Beach and the Al Mashtal (rebranded “Ayan Hotel”) — allegedly served as Hamas command centers, with tunnels accessible from guest rooms and direct ties to military training facilities.
🔸️Senior Hamas officials, including Yahya Sinwar, are said to have operated out of these sites, using them for planning and launching attacks.
🔸️The complaint calls it a “grand deception” — Masri promoted peace and progress publicly, while enabling terror behind the scenes.
🔸️Plaintiffs argue this deception shielded key Hamas infrastructure from Israeli targeting and directly contributed to the scale and success of the October 7 massacre.
Full filing here, including the name of all plaintiffs
A new website has been launched presenting legal arguments from various so-called scholars, experts, and professors, all pushing to overturn Hamas’ terror designation.
But hilariously, some of the contributors are terrorists themselves🧵
Two of the submissions are from Sami Al-Arian, a convicted Islamic Johad financier who was deported to Turkey from the US
Another is from Charlotte Kates, one of the heads of Samidoun, which has been designated as a terror group by the US, Canada, Germany, and Israel
🚨Breaking: Hamas Launches Legal Challenge Demanding UK Remove its Terror Designation🚨
The 106-page legal application claimed that the 2021 decision "pursued explicitly political objectives by a politically compromised Secretary of State."
Hamas' UK-based lawyers include:
Fahad Ansari, the director of Riverway Law, which is leading the challenge; Daniel Grutters, a barrister at One Pump Court Chambers and Frank Magennis, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers.
What do we think the British courts will rule?
So, who's funding the lawsuit? After all, the lawyers claim they were not "paid by Hamas," but that's different than "not being paid at all."
One clue points to an unsurprising source: Qatar
See, the UK-based Middle East Eye (MEE)—reportedly a Qatari-funded psyop—was the first to publish news about the lawsuit, which it claimed was an "Exclusive."
Your daily reminder that many of the narratives we see and hear from Gaza are lies.
Take "journalist" Youssef Hasouna, for example, who was killed over the weekend.
Probably won't surprise some of you to learn that he was not, in fact, an actual journalist 🧵
Youssef's brother, Wassim, was a Qassam Brigades terrorist who died along with several others when the tunnel they were operating in collapsed back in 2016
Here's a better shot of Wassim (the one in the middle holding the gun)
Extremely disappointing op-ed from @SenatorBanks—not just for his full-throated defense of a man who has repeatedly shown a complete lack of understanding about how players in the region actually operate, but also for dismissing critics of Witkoff as “globalists,” “establishment types,” and part of the “military-industrial complex.”
No, Senator. I’m not a globalist. I’m not an establishment type. I’m not part of the military-industrial complex.
I’m an American taxpayer—and I’m deeply disappointed that Witkoff thinks the JCPOA was a good deal, routinely defends the Qatari government, admits he was duped by Hamas, and, frankly, is completely out of his depth.
At the risk of stating the obvious, @nickturse's new report in the @CostsOfWar about Palestinian journalists is flaming hot garbage that doesn't even attempt to address the fact that virtually the entire media apparatus in Gaza is dominated by Hamas.
Let's begin, shall we? 🧵
First off, it's worth noting that any report relying on data from @pressfreedom or Al Jazeera—as this one does—is doomed from the outset.
In the case of Al Jazeera, dozens of its "journalists" are confirmed terrorists, and it was even run by former Hamas official Wadah Khanfar
Here's info on 20 Al Jazeera "journalists," many of whom are terrorists: