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In video, Islamic Jihad unit commander tells interrogators he was trained in Iran
2024-01-17
[IsraelTimes] Basel Mahadi, nabbed by IDF in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, says he received instruction in sniping with rifles at Iranian military base along with other members of his terror group


Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
operatives were given military training in Iran, a captured commander in the terror group revealed in an interrogation, video excerpts of which were published by the Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday.

Basel Mahadi, an Islamic Jihad unit commander who was nabbed by troops in Gaza on December 20, detailed in the video how he left Gaza and was sent to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
for military training. He was shown speaking in Arabic with an interrogator. The released video included an English translation of the conversation in subtitles.

Israel has repeatedly accused Iran of being a key force behind the devastating Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-led attack on October 7, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Attackers succeeded in disabling the high-tech Gaza border fence, allowing some 3,000 murderous Moslems to stream across the boundary from Gaza and carry out massacres in southern Israeli regions.

Mahadi said he joined the PIJ in around 2010 and was in charge of a unit that specialized in using mortars and rockets, engineering, sniper techniques and anti-tank missiles. The PIJ is a Gaza terror group aligned with Hamas.

"My commander called me and said that I should go to Iran for a sniper course, I will benefit from it and my salary will increase when I return," Mahadi recalled, in the excerpts from the interrogation provided by the Shin Bet.

"I went from the Gaza Strip to Egypt where I stayed for about two weeks, from there I went to Syria for a few days and then to Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
. After two weeks, we went from Syria to Iran," he said, noting he was given $1,000 dollars to cover expenses.

"In Iran, the course was 15 days. It had physical fitness training and shooting training on different types of weapons," Mahadi added.

Mahadi said that they spent four days training on Kalashnikov rifles up to distances of 100 meters, another five days up to 150 meters, and then six days training on Dragunov sniper rifles up to distances of 300 meters.

The training was at an Iranian military base, he said though he did not recall the name or location. Instructors were "Iranian soldiers, they were wearing uniforms," he added.

Mahadi said other Islamic Jihad operatives also underwent rocket training in Iran. He trained with 15-20 other PIJ operatives, from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. In the published video, Mahadi did not say when the training took place.

In late October, The Wall Street Journal reported that hundreds of Paleostinian murderous Moslems underwent military training in Iran in the weeks leading up to the October attack. The newspaper, citing "people familiar with intelligence" surrounding the brutal onslaught, reported that 500 members of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad took part in training led by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iran has welcomed the Hamas assault but denies it played a role in its planning.

Hours before the report was published, IDF front man Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari pointed a finger directly at Iran for helping to plan the October 7 assault. Hagari said at a presser that Iran had directly aided Hamas "before the war, with training, supplying weapons, money and technological know-how." Even now, he said, "Iranian aid to Hamas continues in the form of intelligence and online incitement against the State of Israel."
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