Hamas: Inside the Terror Group at War with Israel | DISPATCH | HD Documentary

0:04 for over a month the Gaza Strip has been under Fire from the Israeli [Applause] Army on the eve of the 26th of October tahal began its ground Invasion into the Palestinian Enclave the Jewish state is determined to wipe about Hamas the terrorist organization responsible for the massacre perpetrated in Israel on the 7th of October Israel is a war we didn't want this war it was forced Upon Us in the most brutal and Savage way but though Israel didn't start this war Israel will

0:49 finish it around the world Pro Palestine demonstrations are growing freedom for Palestine Freedom for Palestine anti-is hate chants can be heard from crowds in the Middle East historic enemies of the Jewish state are threatening to join the conflict the United Nations is calling for a ceasefire I made two urgent humanitarian appeals to amas for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages to Israel to immediately allow unrestricted exess of humanitarian Aid to respond to the most basic needs

1:36 of the people of Gaza but before it will reach any sort of humanitarian truce Israel demands the release of the 240 hostages held by Hamas by air by sea or by land the attack on the 7th of October 2023 claimed 1400 victims Israel was left in shock the terrorist organization behind this deadly assault

2:22 [Music] Hamas an ultraviolent islamist movement that came to power in Gaza in 200 six this small piece of land covering just 360 Square km is mainly populated by Palestinian refugees driven from their land by Israel in 1948 during the war since taking control of Gaza Hamas has advocated for the destruction of Israel in response the Jewish State placed the Palestinian Enclave under a land and sea blockade before the 7th of October clashes between gazans and Israelis soldiers guarding the border wall were a daily occurrence so how did this attack which

3:07 had most likely been planned for months escaped the notice of the Israeli secret Services if we had agents then we have known about this war in advance we will see how Hamas has developed strategies to deceive the Israeli Defense Forces today there is um almost a parallel Town under Gaza over the years Hamas has managed to strengthen itself thanks to financial support from abroad countries such as Qatar surprisingly Qatar support for Hamas was endorsed by Benjamin netanyahu's government

4:00 who are the real islamists of Hamas has Israel underestimated their capabilities we investigate the terrorist organization that has plunged the Jewish State into Terror in the early hours of the 7th of October in the Gaza Strip hundreds of Hamas Fighters equip and arm themselves for the assault they will film their entire operation at 6:00 a.m. they head on motorbikes towards the Israeli bullwark that surrounds the Palestinian

4:48 territory the wall is penetrated in several places using explosives and bulldozers at around 6:30 a.m. more than a thousand terrorists enter Israeli territory several groups head forame where a music festival is being held just 5 colomet from Gaza thousands of young people from all over Israel have gathered to dance and sing about unity and love [Music] around 700 a.m. missiles appear in the

5:35 sky they are shot down by the Iron Dome the Israeli defense system the organizers ask Festival goers to leave the site Hamas Fighters are on their way [Music] in the space of a few hours they methodically execute 260

6:25 people Ido and his six-month-old baby live in the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv his wife Seline 32 was one of the festival's [Music] [Music] fatalities don't [Music]

7:15 on the day of the tragedy Seline got up at 5:00 a.m. to get to the festival [Music] [Music] with no news Ido went in search of his wife

8:08 the vehicle was riddled with bullets but there was no trace of the body Seline was found a few days [Music] later on this morning 7 of October [Music] 2023 other groups of terrorists reach the kibuts in the region they Massacre hundreds of civilians women and children as they pass through some are executed at Point Blank Range

9:15 [Music] in addition to the kibuts the terrorists carry out surprise attacks on six Israeli military bases killing more than than 300 soldiers several dozen are taken prisoner so how did this 65 km long 6 M High defensive wall give way so easily supposedly impossible it cost over a

10:02 billion dollars to build it is fitted with cameras and radar technology and was inaugurated with great Fanfare by the Israeli defense minister in 2021 [Music]

10:50 in the first minutes of the assault Hamas Fighters eliminate the guards posted in the watchtowers using amateur drones they then blind the ultra sophisticated Israeli surveillance systems and automatic machine guns the few IDF tanks in the area suffer the same fate [Applause]

11:43 [Music] once the communication systems have been neutralized the Israeli Defense Forces receive very little information [Music] in fact during their murderous Rampage the Hamas Fighters meet very little resistance they managed to advance 22 km into Israeli territory

12:40 why did the Israeli Army not intervene earlier why did it fail to stop the terrorist attack it transpires that several thousand soldiers usually stationed around Gaza had been sent to the West Bank a Palestinian territory where 4 1 75,000 Jewish migrants have settled in 145 colonies deemed illegal under international law the Israeli soldiers were responsible for protecting the settlers and containing the anger of the Palestinians [Music]

13:37 didn't choose the date of the 7th of October 2023 at random either it was a day when the whole country was celebrating sukot the Harvest Festival many soldiers had been granted leave [Music] [Music] it was a holiday uh Saturday morning we weren't prepared for for that the Army

14:24 wasn't prepared for that Crossing is not problem did Israeli intelligence fail just like the Army and yet their servic is reputed to be among the best in the world how was unit 8,200 an elite intelligence and wiretapping unit completely in the dark

15:26 in addition to electronic intelligence the Israeli secret Services also failed in terms of human intelligence if we had agents then we'd have known about this war in advance uh it gives you a kind of a a question [Music] unlike Israel Hamas had very precise

16:12 information about the Fighter's corpses the Israeli Rescue Services found these documents which detail the preparations for the attack they have since made them [Music] public on this map map the keyboard's targets are circled in dark blue and the military bases in light blue surveillance cameras and Raiders are also [Music] indicated this information is said to have been obtained from the thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who cross the Wall every day to go to work in Israel

17:09 we had 20,000 employees from Gaza Every Day in Israel so getting this information was so easy again unfortunately we were so naive it's it's incredible in this manual found on one of the terrorists entitled Mission order there is for example a list of potential Israeli reinforcements their equipment and the time it will take them to arrive once the attack has begun [Music]

18:00 on another page Hamas objectives are detailed in eight [Music] points the Hamas men were extremely well informed and prepared but several signs should have alerted the Israeli authorities terrorists regularly posted videos on the internet in which they rehearsed attacks on reconstituted military camps and kibuts they even simulated hostage

18:49 taking it was prepared in front of us like we see there we saw we saw the training we saw everything but we didn't believe that they are really going to implement it it was clear that something is going to happen but they they did not know what when and um and the magnitude according to several sources a few weeks before the attack Hamas also organized fake demonstrations along the wall so that it could conceal the explosives used on the 7th of [Music]

19:50 October how did Hamas prepare this terrorist attack what are its tactics where does it get its military ass from firstly to make itself invisible Hamas went underground that today there is um almost a parallel Town under Gaza under the Gaza Strip a ter tree three times the size of Paris Hamas Fighters claim to have dug more than 500 km of tunnels some are 40 or 50 m

20:37 underground this underground network is known as the Gaza Metro in these propaganda images we can see that some tunnels are ventilated with electricity and many rooms

21:37 today some of the 240 Israeli hostages are believed to be held in this underground [Music] Labyrinth until recently some of the these tunnels reached Israel and allowed fighters to make raids into the Hebrew State other older routs let into Egypt and were used to bypass the blockade to bring weapons or Goods into the enclave [Music]

22:29 these underground networks have become Israel's priority Target the Army is attempting to destroy them to dislodge the entrenched Fighters the Israeli Defense Force is also relying on a specialist unit the yahalom Battalion the Gaza Metro is also home to Arms Factory iies these propaganda videos show men churning out missiles

23:45 [Music] on the 7th of October Hamas reportedly fired more than 2 ,500 missiles into Israel in the space of a few hours but Hamas has also been able to count on the support of a major power to arm and equip itself one that is also seeking to destroy Israel the Islamic Republic of Iran

24:41 in this report shot in 2020 by the Qatari Channel Al jazer Hamas Fighters can be seen assembling fuder five missiles weapons made in Iran each one weighs over a ton is over 6 M long and has a range of 75 km in its war against Israel Hamas has developed its expertise quite considerably in particular it uses drones sold on the Open Market at $6,000 a piece the fighters have equipped them with explosive charges this is what they use to neutralize Israeli control towers and tanks on the 7th of

25:26 October in this propaganda video published a few days ago a Hamas drone drops an explosive charge on Israeli soldiers in the north of the Gaza Strip who is The Mastermind behind the attack on the 7th of October the man is shrouded in mystery and never shows his face an hour and a half after the start of the terrorist operation a frozen silhouette appears in

26:14 Shadow in an audio recording lasting around 10 minutes a voice announces the start of operation flood of alaka this claim is made by a certain Muhammad de

27:01 de the man is almost untraceable there are very few photos of him for 20 years he has let the armed wing of Hamas the esine alasan brigades under his command they have grown considerably stronger mamed Israel's nightmare was born in

27:46 Gaza in the mid-60s he grew up in a poor family in a refugee camp he joined the ranks of Hamas as soon as it was founded in the late 80s he set to be one of the brains behind the waves of attack that hit Israel in the 1990s and 2000s charl and is the only journalist to have filmed and interviewed him it was in 2003 three by the greatest of coincidences during one of his many

28:31 reports in the Gaza Strip appr [Music]

29:33 the terrorist is elusive DEA his name of War means guest in Arabic and he's hiding somewhere in Gaza but he's crippled we tried to to to kill him several times and he will pay the price one day what does it mean he will pay the price I can't you know I think he knows [Music] that in 2014 Israel thought it could finally eliminate its biggest Public Enemy the secret Services had located The Hideout of the terrorist who had been hiding in the Gaza Strip for years on the 19th of August 2014 the IDF Air

30:21 Force dropped its bombs it was all a strikes on on places that we suspected that he was once again the commander of the alasan brigades miraculously escaped death but Israeli strikes kill his wife and daughter the child's body is carried in the arms of Muhammad de's father-in-law in front of thousands of angry Hamas supporters and somehow we managed to to escape uh in Hebrew we ever say that means one day it will happen

31:06 again he will lose the luck that he had so far while Hamas has a formidable military organization the islamist movement also has a political Wing a branch that is supposed to make it more respectable and that it uses to forge alliances abroad the organization has official representatives in many Middle Eastern countries turkey Qatar Iran and also Lebanon south of Beirut in the ma elas refugee camp the Hamas colors are plastered all over the walls

31:59 we meet Ahmed abdelhadi the head of Hamas in Lebanon the Manesty lighted with the 7th of October operation despite testimony and photographic evidence he denies the massacres of civilians by Hamas and accuses the west of manipulation

32:54 [Music] the man at the head of this political Branch who also denies civilian deaths while rejoicing in the attacks is Ismael Han he became leader in 2017 [Music]

33:43 [Music] the political leader of Hamas no longer lives in the Gaza Strip he has been a refugee in Qatar for 3 years on the 7th of October from his luxurious office in Doha we see him enjoying the attacks in front of the television surrounded by his men

34:31 the political leader of Hamas has chosen the Emirate as a refuge since the small Gulf country is the main political and financial supporter of the islamist movement Allah [Music] alhamd in October 2012 the Emir of Qatar visited the Palestinian Enclave in person to meet Hamas leader Ismael Hani every year his country pours $360 million into the Gaza Strip curiously however Benjamin netanyahu's government doesn't take a dim view of this influx of money it will even facilitate itj

35:42 I'm really very sorry to say that but with the approval and sometimes uh through suitcases of of the state of Israel officially this money should only be used to pay civil servants and help thousands of families living in [Music] poverty but some of that katari money was actually diverted to finance the armed

36:28 [Music] strugle we were naive to think that this money would go to the welfare of of the population in Gaza it was a mistake we all admit now that it was a huge huge mistake iFly could Benjamin netanyahu's political party has turned a blind eye to the use of Qatari money it is for a purely political purpose

37:14 is the country's religious far right which opposes the creation of a Palestinian State playing a dangerous game this monster which the Netanyahu government has allowed to grow was actually born before Israel's eyes in

38:00 the 1970s at the time the Israeli Army was occupying the Gaza Strip shag Yasin a religious preacher trained by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt began to attract crowds the Israelis saw this quadriplegic and Visually Impaired man as a means of weakening yasa alaat the leader of fat who then embodied the Palestinian cause

38:48 the idea was in order to counter the Nationalist movement led by fat we shall support uh a religious ideology very quickly the small islamist movement gains momentum and attracts more than more [Music] G it was only in 1987 that Hamas the Islamic resistance movement was officially created its founding Charter

39:35 was profoundly anti-semitic thanks to their money they Reign Over the world's Media news agencies The Press publishing houses and radio the stated aim of Hamas is clear faced with the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews we must raise the banner of jihad

40:26 for to achieve its objective Hamas set up an armed Wing in 1991 the aadin alasan Brigade in the 90s They carried out an unprecedented wave of attacks in Israel's major [Music] cities by sowing Terror the organization is seeking to undercut the Oslo Accords the historic peace agreement signed in 1993 between Israel and hamas's rival yasa Al

41:22 [Music] after 38 years of occupation the Israeli Army withdrew from Gaza in 2005 barely a year later Hamas won the elections [Applause]

42:20 to gain a c blanch Hamas drives out its main rival fata in a fratricidal war that kills 150 people since the violent seizure of power in 2007 the terrorist organization has grown considerably richer with impunity thanks to a great deal of foreign support the financial volume of Hamas today raises between1 to2 billion dollar uh and that's very

43:06 unfortune is Han the political leader takes on the role of fundraiser he regularly travels to meet the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon Turkish president Adan and Ayatollah Kaman the Iranian supreme guide in 2021 Ismael Han expressed his warm thanks to the Islamic Republic of Iran we are speaking about around $100

43:53 million per year which is totally totally uh uh colored for for is Adin Kasam for for the military wing of Hamas what we saw on the 7th of October uh is a Iranian concept Iranian uh design and um and Iranian money while it can count on the generosity of Israel's enemies the terrorist organization ation has also invested in the legal economy it owns dozens of companies based abroad there is there what we called their commercial Secret commercial

44:40 portfolio infrastructure which combines around 30 uh commercial companies Globe wide which the volume of those companies is around $700 million the US Treasury has imposed sanctions on dozens of businessmen linked to Hamas they run and sit on the boards of companies based in Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Algeria Sudan and [Music] turkey most of these companies operate in the property sector one example is trano a Turkish construction giant that

45:26 builds a l number of housing complexes but the terrorist organization also knows how to use new technologies to enrich itself on social networks the movement issues appeals for donations in cryptocurrency this tutorial is entitled how to support the Palestinian resistance using Bitcoin according to the highest estimates thanks to the details of cryptocurrency accounts published on the internet Hamas is set to have collected up to $130

46:12 million in the United States Ari RBS company has developed a technology that makes it possible to trace These funds so uh you know Bad actors like Hamas like Isis like holla have become more sophisticated we see uh Hamas going back to about 2019 uh starting to solicit donations in crypto first on telegram channels and eventually they actually set up website infrastructure um in order to solicit um and receive donations donations reportedly poured in from all over the world of course it's coming from Europe of course it's coming from the United States I mean look at all the protests over the last you know few weeks uh in every city in Europe in

46:57 every city in the United States um so I think absolutely funding to Hamas is coming from absolutely everywhere since the 7th of October Israeli units specializing in Cyber Technology have closed more than 200 cryptocurrency accounts belonging to amamas to finance its war against Israel Hamas levies numerous taxes on the population on Goods entering the Gaza Strip and on businesses and those who refuse to pay must be careful every company that works in Gaza has to pay tax from to Hamas so who doesn't go on the path that Hamas is showing them will find himself in either

47:43 in Kamas jail if not killed or whatever the income from these taxes represents a financial windfall of between 10 and $15 million each year since 2007 the people of Gaza have been living under the Yoke of Hamas the islamist movement refuses to organize free elections and those who oppose its rule are violently repressed [Music]

48:45 Hamas police do not hesitate to execute people accused of being agents of Israel in the street this man was a victim of Hamas Terror Ramy Aman is a peace activist from Gaza he has agreed to testify because he now lives in safety in KIRO Egypt in Gaza it was very hard in my last years to stay because of the stresses from the Securities here in Cairo I'm near Gaza and I can just rebuild myself Ramy is extremely worried for his family back home since the attack on the 7th of October the Israeli Army's air rates on Gaza have already claimed

49:32 thousands of Civilian victims it's just a day night imagine anyone in this place I know what the meaning of that war in G and they know the noise of F-16 the drones the tanks the missiles the fears the telephone network is regularly cut by the Israeli Army the mobile number you have died can be reached at the moment after several

50:18 attempts he manages to reach his cousin Daily Calls Ramy left Gaza because his activism had made him a target of Hamas I founded a group in Gaza called Gaz Committee in 2010 by invite 25 part participants yes Christians and Muslims talking in our first meeting about how we can Empower our relations how we can build our

51:05 future how we can build a new movement in 2020 Rami was going to organize an event considered by Hamas to be a step too far an online meeting between 100 Palestinians and Israelis you know they are in this meeting I'm very happy I'm very proud to meet my friends and and for me it was important to represent for the Israeli community that in Gaza we are not terrorists Ram was later arrested and accused of collaborating With the Enemy he spent more than 200 days in prison and was subjected to daily violence most of their questions were about my relations with the Israelis and make it checks if I am collaborator or many

51:51 tortured happened many hard days passed for my opinion also Hamas in in that government Hamas created more Corruptions Hamas arrested a lot of Palestinians Hamas killed Palestinians so Hamas it's not the right movement to lead the Palestinian the gazan population lives under the dictatorship of Hamas as it constantly promotes its islamist and warlike ideology and to recruit new Fighters the group is taking advantage of the disastrous economic situation brought about by the Israeli Egyptian blockade 60% of the population live below the poverty line and need

52:37 humanitarian Aid on a daily [Music] basis for but is Hamas truly popular in Gaza according to a Washington Institute survey carried out before the 7th of October attack more than one and two gazans have a positive opinion of the islamist movement

53:24 [Music] we met this family in 2019 in their living room behind the sofa a flag of the alasan brigades the armed wing of Hamas the father Sab musi has been a member of Hamas since it was founded in 1987 for him Hamas is above all a resistance movement against what he sees as the oppressor Israel

54:45 and in this fight against the Jewish State Sab musi is prepared to put his life on the line [Music] in order to recruit new members ready to sacrifice themselves in battle Hamas is primarily targeting a vulnerable demographic young people in Gaza one in two inhabitants is under 18

55:43 in this propaganda video broadcast on a telegram channel of the alasan brigades a group of teenagers are playing football in the street when they suddenly come face to face with militia men within minutes they decide to join their [Music] ranks to attract new members Hamas even organizes yearly summer camps for young people aged 6 to 25 in a theme park in Gaza during these weekends called The Defenders of Jerusalem after religious classes the participants learned to handle weapons of war and even simulate attacks on

56:32 [Music] Israel members of the Israeli government are their [Music] targets for [Music] [Music]

57:34 as well as recruiting its young people Hamas doesn't hesitate to use civilians to protect itself from Israeli strikes Gaza is the most densely populated territory in the world in these images we shot in 2019 a Hamas military Camp is being set up in the middle of a workingclass neighborhood

58:19 just a few meters from a kindergarten everything has been destroyed since the start of the war [Music] since the 7th of October the Israeli Army claims to have hit 12,000 Hamas targets deadly strikes that hit ambulances hospitals and schools the former director of The Secret Services who Advocates a two-state solution highly doubts [Music] this we have the power to destroy the

59:07 military Wing we have even the power to Target and to hit the political leaders but Hamas is an ideology the only way to face and to destroy ideology is by present a political Horizon unless we shall create hope for the Palestinians uh we shall not have security according to Hamas more than 10,000 civilians have died in the bombings a figure that's difficult to verify 240 Israeli hostages are still being held by the terrorist organization