Senior Hamas officials work as university lecturers to recruit students to study cyber. Some of them are active in Malaysia and some of them return to activity in Gaza and Judea and Samaria all the details
The military arm of Hamas has been operating in the field of cyber, research and development in Malaysia for close to a decade. According to a publication by the journalist Elior Levy in ‘Kan 11’, shadow people and senior members of the terrorist organization work as lecturers at the university, to recruit the young students and train them for cyber activity. Hamas also established a base for its activities in other East Asian countries such as the Philippines.
In recent years, Hamas has recruited dozens of young Palestinians and trained them in Malaysia. Some of them remained in the country and operated under the organization in the cyber field. The other part returned from their training to the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria to continue their activities. The Palestinian from Gaza, the activist Fadi al-Batash, who was a renowned engineer and the man of the military arm of Hamas, responsible for the improvement and accuracy of rockets, was eliminated in 2018 in Malaysia.
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Last week, the military wing of Hamas unveiled its cyber unit in a ceremony in the Gaza Strip. Four days later, the Hamas-affiliated Al-Jazeera network revealed the kidnapping of the Palestinian, which took place a month ago. The authorities in Malaysia reported to the channel that the Palestinian was kidnapped by the Mossad, they arrested the kidnappers and released the activist.
The senior officials operating in Malaysia are Maan Fahmi Khatib, 50, a shadowy figure and a Hamas official. Has a Jordanian citizenship and lives in Malaysia where his job is to recruit Palestinian students studying at the Islamic University of Hamas. Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering. His friend Radwan Jamal Al-Atrash, 57 years old, originally from Judea and Samaria, lives in Malaysia and also works at the Islamic University, in Kuala Lumpur. Al-Atrash’s role is also to recruit Palestinian students to Hamas.