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Hamas Fighters Trained in Iran Before Oct. 7 Attacks
(Wall Street Journal) Summer Said - Roughly 500 Palestinian Islamist militants from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad participated in specialized combat training exercises in Iran in September, led by officers of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to people familiar with intelligence related to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The Wall Street Journal, citing senior Hamas and Hizbullah officials, has reported that the Quds Force helped plan the attack and agreed that it could go ahead at a meeting in Beirut on Oct. 2 with leaders of Hamas and Hizbullah.