ISIS And Hamas Are Mirror Images, Have Similar Ideologies, Goals And Operating Styles: Intel Sources | Exclusive

International terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) and Palestinian militant outfit Hamas have several similarities and comparable operating styles, top intelligence sources said to CNN-News18 on Friday.

Hamas not only accepts the ideology of ISIS but also its brutal manner of killing, they said.

Like ISIS, Hamas also sees the Western world as its enemy, said the sources.

Killing children and women in an indiscriminate manner is a signature of both Hamas and Islamic State, they added. In 2014, ISIS also annihilated Yazidis in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq.

ISIS and Hamas share the same radical Islamic ideology, are brutal towards human life, use the same extremely violent and barbarous actions to achieve their goals, and are remorseless, said the sources.

In recent years, they added, after attacks on ISIS in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries, its cadres have taken shelter in Palestine in Hamas-dominated areas. Similarly, Hamas leaders have met ISIS in Yemen and Syria on different occasions, said the sources.

On many Hamas-affiliated websites, it’s suggested that members of the Islamic State in Sinai are also involved with the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas

It is also important to note Hamas allowed Salafia organisations to operate in Gaza after 2007, the intelligence sources said.

Both ISIS and Hamas are working on geographical domination, they said. Hamas may be smaller in scale, they said, but its ideology is similar to ISIS in the way of Salafia Jihadia.

Hamas also wants to establish Islamic rule all over the world to wants to start by dominating the Jews, said the sources.

Apart from this, the way Hamas uses motorcycles, drones, etc, they said, is very similar to what ISIS fighters did in Iraq and Syria.

Like ISIS calls to kill non-Muslims, Khaled Mashal, one of Hamas’s founders, on October 12 asked for the killing of Jews all over the world, said the sources.

This jihad against Jews and Christians, they said, demonstrates a clear connection between Hamas and ISIS.