The barbarity of the October 7 massacre, as well as the ISIS flags and pamphlets found on the Hamas Nukhba terrorists who invaded Israel, triggered natural comparisons between Hamas and ISIS, the Islamic State terrorist organization. Global jihadi organizations, such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and their affiliates have used Hamas’s attack to promote their worldwide jihadist agenda, glorifying their attack as a ‘victory of the Ummah,’. thereby justifying their ongoing propaganda against Jews and Christians.

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Since Hamas’s horrific attack on 7 October, the organization has been compared to ISIS and has even claimed to be the Palestinian equivalent of the radical Salafist group. Nonetheless, despite the comparison, ISIS views Hamas as traitors and infidels.

As a Salafist group, ISIS views every entity that doesn’t follow the Sunni-Salafist system as apostates. Therefore, Hamas, as a Sunni group which acts as a regional proxy of Shi’ite Iran, is considered as infidel.

Thus, initially, ISIS didn’t react to the 7 October attacks. About two weeks later, ISIS supporters expressed outrage at the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and sought to exploit the Israel-Gaza war to recruit new sympathisers and incite attacks.

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