Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades

TEL AVIV – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that a delegation of senior officials from the terror group had arrived in Tehran for an unspecified purpose that would lead to “important results.”

A member of Hamas’s military wing was reportedly killed Sunday in a tunnel collapse near Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Reports in Palestinian media identified the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades member as Thaer Nayef al-Zaraie.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says that six Palestinians were killed and some 1,070 were wounded during Friday’s border clashes. Hamas is singlehandedly responsible for each of those deaths and injuries.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have stepped up their pursuit of Islamic State operatives and supporters as well as other Salafist jihadists in the Gaza Strip, even while a Hamas delegation is visiting in Egypt led by politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Gaza jihadist affiliated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, on Wednesday claimed that the Palestinian Authority provided the lead that helped Israel track down and kill Ahmed Jarrar, the terrorist suspected of heading the cell that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach last month.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have confiscated rockets that were in the possession of Liwaa Al Tawhid, a Palestinian jihadist organization that was formed when its member broke away from the Salah Al Din Brigades, the so-called military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist in the group told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Hamas has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to its “property,” mainly in the loss of dozens of rockets, as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza over the weekend, according to initial estimates from within the group.

TEL AVIV — Two former Hamas members who entered Sinai to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State have been killed during clashes with the Egyptian army, a senior jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — The Hamas movement won’t agree to any movement on the issue of relinquishing weapons currently held by Hamas during reconciliation discussions with Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, according to Hamas deputy politburo chief Mousa Abu Marzook.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has suffered another embarrassment after three of its members purportedly successfully infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday and joined Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — Jihadist organizations affiliated with the Islamic State are refusing to give the Hamas terrorist group a rest in the Gaza Strip, as an informed Hamas source in the enclave told Breitbart Jerusalem that the Hamas movement’s security forces arrested six jihadists in the last two days who are residents of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the Strip.

TEL AVIV — Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ so-called military wing, has joined the group’s delegation led by politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in a visit to Egypt, a senior Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

UNITED NATIONS — The United States on Thursday described remarks by a Palestinian Hamas leader boasting of strong military ties with Iran as a “stunning admission” that showed Tehran was violating a UN ban on arms exports.

TEL AVIV — Special intelligence forces of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have foiled an attempt by six Hamas militants to join Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a Hamas security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces arrested dozens of jihadists affiliated with Islamic State ideology in wake of rocket fire from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday evening, a senior jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas authorities arrested six members of the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a few days ago as they sought to infiltrate Sinai through the tunnels connecting Gaza to the Peninsula in order to join Islamic State fighters there, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Eleven jihadist residents of the Gaza Strip who swore allegiance to the Islamic State organization succeeded last weekend in joining Wilayat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a senior jihadist source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ so-called military wing, has begun a process of redeployment that includes the reorganization of the movement’s military systems, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas politburo member Khali Elhayeh has requested that Arab countries not confuse terrorism with “resistance” in a sermon for al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan.

TEL AVIV — Five Hamas members have joined the ranks of the Islamic State in Sinai over the past few days, a security source in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Bedouin tribes fighting in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula against the Islamic State group have warned Hamas against continued support for IS in Sinai. The tribes accused Hamas of allowing fighters out of the Gaza Strip to join IS’ ranks through smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza to the Sinai while providing sanctuary to IS members.

Wilayat Sinai, Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, has been using sniper rifles that were intended to reach Hamas in the Gaza Strip but were captured in Sinai, a senior Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Elements in Hamas’ political leadership have expressed concern that the election of a hardline militant as leader of the Islamic movement may jeopardize its recent diplomatic efforts to thaw relations with Egypt and could precipitate a more extremist approach toward the region.

TEL AVIV – Hamas said the Mossad was behind Thursday’s killing of Mohammed Al-Zoari, a Tunisian aviation engineer who developed unmanned drones for the terror group, and vowed revenge.

As the residents of the Gaza Strip endure daily hardships due to the dire economic situation in the enclave, their Hamas leaders spend over $100 million a year on the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, according to estimates by both Israeli and Palestinian sources.

The Israel Air Force conducted 50 airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late Sunday night, following a rocket fired into Israel by Palestinian militants earlier that day.

The Israel Air Force conducted 50 airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late Sunday night, following a rocket fired into Israel by Palestinian terrorists earlier that day, but was not seeking an escalation in hostilities, an Israeli official said on Monday.

A Palestinian terrorist who co-founded Hamas’s notorious military wing in 1991 and was directly involved in the killing of Israeli soldiers, published a startling Facebook post in which he apologized to fellow Palestinians for his activities.

A Hamas tunnel discovered snaking into Israeli territory is only “a drop in a sea” of what the terrorist group has prepared against the Jewish state, according to an official statement from Hamas’s so-called military wing.

TEL AVIV – Hamas’ military wing suffered a blow last week as two of its top commanders crossed the Gaza-Egypt border and joined Islamic State in Sinai, senior militant sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.