Last week, Israel’s Shin Bet security service announced it had foiled an
attempted bombing in April by Hamas and arrested a suspect, Israeli-Arab
citizen Muhammed Nadir Mahajneh. According to the indictment against Mahajneh,
Hamas had recruited him to scout potential targets in northern Israel and Tel
Aviv. The disclosure follows dozens of rocket attacks last month from the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip targeting Israeli civilian areas, resulting in
Israeli retaliatory strikes against Hamas military posts across Gaza.





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Uptick In Hamas Violence Coincides With Continued Hospitality By International
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(New York, N.Y.) — Last week, Israel’s Shin Bet security service announced
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it had foiled an attempted bombing in April byHamas
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Israeli-Arab citizen Muhammed Nadir Mahajneh. According to the indictment
against Mahajneh, Hamas had recruited him to scout potential targets in
northern Israel and Tel Aviv. The disclosure follows dozens ofrocket attacks
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Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip targeting Israeli civilian areas, resulting in
Israeli retaliatory strikes against Hamas military posts across Gaza.



Despite the uptick in Hamas’s violence and terrorist designations by the U.S.,
EU, Canada, and Australia, Hamas continues to receive hospitable treatment from
other foreign governments. Last month, Swedish Member of Parliament Jamal El-Haj
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organized by the European Palestinians Conference, which is affiliated with
Hamas andopposed by the Palestinian Authority
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. In March, a high-level delegation of Hamas leadersmet
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with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow against the backdrop of
meetings
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between senior Israeli and Ukrainian leaders.



Most recently, Hamas won a strategic victory with the re-election of Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hamas released a statementcongratulating
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Erdoğan’s tenure in Turkey, Hamas has conducted military training exercises in
the country, hosted events, and opened a bureau in Istanbul from which it has
coordinated
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terror attacks and terror financing in the West Bank. Hamas’s leaders have
also found safe haven inQatar
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whose leaders havebankrolled
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Hamas’s Gaza government andreferred
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal as a “dear guest” in Qatar.



Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that emerged in the Gaza Strip in
the late 1980s, blends Islamism and Palestinian nationalism and seeks to
replace Israel entirely with an Islamic Palestinian state between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Hamas has remained to committed to
terrorism, using suicide bombings, rocket and mortar attacks, shootings, and
kidnappings as its preferred methods.



To read CEP’s resource Hamas, please click here
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