drone strike in Baghdad, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh fl ew to Tehran to deliver a eu- logy at his funeral. He also met with Solei-
mani’s successor, Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, the new head of the Quds Force and likely co- ordinator of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. In January 2021, the com-
mander of the IRGC Aero- space Force and Missile Unit, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, boasted of Iran’s support for Hamas. “In Palestine, they are
now using rockets instead of stones,” he said, and acknowl- edged that Iran was training Hamas to manufacture their own weaponry. Those words were echoed
by a Lebanese researcher based in Tehran. “Before the victory of the
revolution, the Palestinian citizens and resistance fi ght-
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LIGHTING UP THE SKY Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the nearby city of Ashkelon in southern Israel on Oct. 20.
ers would fi ght using stones, knives, and slingshots. Today, they are fi ghting using rockets, ballistic missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), psycho- logical warfare, and technolo- gy. Ask the Palestinians where they got all this from. It is from Iran. Iran has provided all this support.” Hamas leader Haniyeh
thanked his Iranian benefac- tors on a Hamas Telegram channel in May 2021: “I give thanks to those who provided funds and weaponry to the courageous resistance, the Is- lamic Republic of Iran, [which] has not skimped in extending funds, weaponry, and technol- ogy to the resistance.” The Jerusalem-based Mid-
dle East Media Research Insti- tute, MEMRI, published video
three weeks before the Hamas attacks, showing Hamas train- ing exercises that looked un- cannily like a dress rehearsal for the actual attacks. The video had initially been
posted by Hamas on Dec. 30, 2022, to the Telegram account of the “Joint Operations Room of the Resistance Factions.” Few paid attention at the time. Documents found on dead
Hamas fi ghters show maps and other planning notes dating from October 2022, according to The New York Times. Other planning docu- ments found on dead fi ghters included al-Qaida instructions on how to use cyanide-based chemical weapons, Israeli President Isaac Herzog re- vealed. On Oct. 8, senior Hamas of-
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