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.