re: Iran Helped Plan Attack - WSJ

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"I know they’re connected to Iran in one way or another, or some of them are affiliated or with groups – they work with Hamas or with [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad… so there’s an affiliation there as well," Joe Truzman, of the FDD, told Fox News Digital, explaining the report on these groups and ties are something he’s been "tracking for years."

Hamas terrorists launched thousands of missiles at Israel and invaded towns along the Gaza border on Saturday, killing at least 700 people and wounding thousands more and prompting Israel to declare war against the Iran-backed group.

Just before the Hamas attack, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that "the usurper regime is coming to an end," in reference to Israel.

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According to the FDD report, Iran maintains at least 19 proxy groups along the border with Israel, either supplying the groups with funds or weapons to keep them operating. The report also tracked whether the groups operated in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria or Lebanon.

A number of those groups, such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, join Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist-designated groups, according to the State Department. Others are merely empowered militias.

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