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What links Hamas to the Axis of Resistance and its patron Iran?
Teheran-backed network could provide an explanation for how the militant group mounted such a multi-pronged assault.
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A salvo of rockets is fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City toward Israel on Oct 8.
PHOTO: AFP
Mehul Srivastava, Raya Jalabi and Neri Zilber
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In the decades-long regional hostility between Israel and Iran, Palestinian militant group Hamas has never come fully under the Islamic republic’s sway.
It has in recent years taken money from Qatar, learnt propaganda lessons from ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), and kept up relations with Egyptian intelligence.
