By Zaki Chehab
What's the genuine nature of Hamas? seeing that its fabulous victory within the 2006 Palestinian elections, this has turn into the main hotly contested query within the center East. How does Hamas particularly function? What personalities lie underneath the black-and-green uniforms? within Hamas is an acclaimed account of Hamas by way of a world-renowned journalist with unparalleled resources in the secretive militant association.
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Majdi Hammad who was the leader of a Brigades cell in the nearby Al Shati camp – or Beach Camp, as it is known – attended the parade carrying an old Swedish-designed 9mm Carl-Gustav M45 sub-machine gun, which he had borrowed from a member in his own cell. 4 None of the other participants in the parade were brandishing guns, real or otherwise, for fear that Israeli intelligence would round them up for being members of an armed militia. Majdi was an extremely well-built figure and, despite swaddling his head with a chequered Palestinian scarf in an attempt at disguise, he was instantly recognizable and a liability as he fired shots into the air from the weapon in celebratory fashion.
Back in 1983, Yassin and other leaders of his local organization, the Islamic Compound, were looking for weapons to arm their military wing, the Mujahideen Falastine, which Yassin had established the previous year. This was new territory for them and their lack of experience at weapons procurement made them vulnerable to the attentions of Israel’s intelligence service, the Shabak. Israeli intelligence succeeded in infiltrating the Islamic Compound and helpfully provided armaments (in other words, conducted a sting operation).
But the two were inextricably interlinked. 6 I had decided to establish a movement in Gaza to work against the Israeli settlement policy, resist the occupation and to encourage Palestinians to take part in the resistance effort against Israel. During our meeting we agreed to set up a military wing and a security wing of this new Islamic movement. The military wing was to fight against the Israeli army and its occupation. Salah Al Shehada built up this wing. The aim was to amass weapons to use in the struggle.