The Israeli army announced on Friday, 21 November, that it had found documents revealing a direct connection between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Assad regime, during operations it carried out in the Gaza Strip.
The documents included an exchange of letters between senior Hamas leaders, among them Yahya Al-Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, as well as Hassan Nasrallah, the former secretary general of Hezbollah, and Mohammad Saeed Izadi, commander of the “Palestine Corps” affiliated with the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
According to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post, Sinwar wrote in one of the letters found by the Israeli army that Syria represents “an indispensable base for refuge, construction, and expansion.”
Sinwar stressed the need for the former Syrian regime to remain in power, arguing that this would allow Hamas “to take part in the resistance project within the Jerusalem axis, that is, the Iranian axis.”
The documents also included minutes of a meeting that brought together Mohammad Saeed Izadi, commander of the “Palestine Corps”, with officials from Hamas and Hezbollah, in which they discussed mechanisms for restoring relations between these groups, which are designated as “terrorist” organizations, and the Syrian regime, as well as ways to limit popular backlash against any future cooperation among them.
According to the documents, arrangements were also made to hold a meeting between former president Bashar al-Assad and several Palestinian factions to shift attention away from Hamas.
Haniyeh took advantage of that meeting to raise the demand for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Syrian jails, considering that such a step “would help calm popular anger” over the resumption of relations between the two sides.
In another letter found by the Israeli army, a sheikh close to the Hamas leadership attacked Arab criticism directed at the movement over its renewed rapprochement with the former Syrian regime.
The sheikh, whose name the Israeli army did not disclose, wrote that expectations of Hamas include standing against Iran in Iraq, against Bashar al-Assad and his regime in Syria, and against the Houthis.
He added that establishing any friendly relations or cooperation with these actors is “forbidden”, describing such a move as a “strategic retreat” that could, if it continues, end in the “collapse of Hamas”.
Hamas, which governs the besieged Gaza Strip, was once considered one of the closest Palestinian allies of the ousted Assad regime, and made Damascus its external headquarters for years, before criticizing the regime’s crackdown on the protests that swept Syria from mid-March 2011 and leaving Syria for Qatar.
The Assad regime fell following the “Deterring Aggression” operations by opposition factions on 8 December 2024, which paved the way for an Israeli incursion into southern Syria, amid expectations of reaching a security agreement between the new authorities in Damascus and Israel.
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