WSJ Information Unique | Hamas Fighters Educated in Iran Earlier than Oct. 7 Assaults

TEL AVIV—Within the weeks main as much as Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel, a whole bunch of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s fighters acquired specialised fight coaching in Iran, based on individuals accustomed to intelligence associated to the assault.

Roughly 500 militants from Hamas and an allied group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated within the workouts in September, which have been led by officers of the Quds Power, the foreign-operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the individuals mentioned.