"Tumbledown hovels sheltering miserable enterprises: resellers of nameless objects, dealers in rags, vendors of dust. A side of beef is being butchered..."
May 20 • 42 tweets • 7 min read
*How Hamas' "Amn al-haraka" unit, i.e. Hamas' internal unit for internal security, audited and suspended al-Qassam Brigades fighters who became Salafis in 2010. A thread*
In 2010, to combat the Saudi-funded rise in Salafism in Gaza, Hamas undertook a number of measures.
This included putting membership applications to the al-Qassam brigades on hold whilst members who engaged in suspicious behavior like using Takfiris language were scrutinized.
Jan 26 • 67 tweets • 10 min read
“Dispelling the Myth, propagated by Abu Mazen’s wing of Fatah and liberal zionists, that Israel Funded Hamas: A Thread”
This is an old Fatah lie, anchored in, during the Israeli occupation of Gaza, Israel permitting Sheikh Yassin’s Islamic Society to open in 1967 and then the
1976 Islamic Center to engage in food pantry, orphanage, and religious civil services.
Indeed, in 1967, the al-Jam'iyah al-Islamiyah (the Islamic Society) received permits for the educational activities run in al-Shati (beach) Mosque.
Dec 14, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
@NotZionist44 @RealScottRitter @thopelep No, that’s a narrative I have seen popularized recently. But it betrays ignorance about Hamas’ political bureau—both its history and how it operates. Meshal has long made such statements but he is part of the “diaspora” wing.
Hamas' Political Bureau is called the maktab
@NotZionist44 @RealScottRitter @thopelep al-siyâsî and the internal groups are spread out in four locations: 1) the Gaza Strip, 2) the West Bank, 3) Israeli prisons in which some of its members are jailed and, lastly, 4) the outside.