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Is Hamas planning a strike from Lebanon's refugee camps?

A senior Hamas leader's call to open new fronts against Israel from Lebanon was neither confirmed nor denied by the movement, raising questions about the possibility of forming cells on the ground.
A man holds a mock Qassam rocket during a rally organised by Lebanese and Palestinian supporters of the Islamist movement Hamas and the Islamic Group, Jamaa Islamiya in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza strip where Hamas is engaged in a major confrontation with the Israeli army on July 11, 2014 in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike, raising the toll in four days of violence to 100, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. AFP PHOTO / MAH
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During a Hamas news conference Feb. 5 in the Gaza Strip, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar called, in a surprising move, for the formation of military groups affiliated with Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. He demanded that the Arab, Lebanese and Syrian fronts to allow Al-Qassam to resist Israel from northern Palestine.

Hamas neither confirmed nor denied Zahar’s call in an official statement, and the movement remained silent, indicating that this idea remains under internal discussion. But internal calls from within Hamas are demanding the immediate activation of foreign fronts to confront the Israeli army, especially on the Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Egyptian borders, knowing that this idea might lead to internal problems with these countries.

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