Iran, Turkey, Qatar, the European Union, and the United States—some of them have been probable, others possible contributors to the strengthening of Hamas, a democratically elected Palestinian political party, and—at the same time—a terrorist organisation that has vowed to annihilate Israel.
After Hamas launched its all-out attack against Israel on Saturday, October 7th, analysts were bewildered at how a group that had in previous years only been able to launch badly built rockets into Israeli territories, harming hardly anyone, was able to carry out such a massacre.
