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China Has Ties to and Supports Hamas: Here Is the Proof
Mahmoud al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Palestinian organization and political party Fatah, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Mussa Abu Marzuk, senior member of the Palestinian terror movement Hamas, attend an event at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024. Photo: Pedro Pardo/Pool via REUTERS
Most people realize that the Islamic Republic of Iran provides money, equipment, training, intelligence, and diplomatic support to Gaza terror groups, as well as to Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other malicious actors.
However, people rarely understand that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) also supports terror groups — including Hamas.
Hamas emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. The PRC recognized “Palestine” in 1988, and established an Office of China to the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza in 1995, which was moved to Ramallah in 2004.
At least by 1995, Hamas had direct access to Chinese diplomats in Gaza.
Multiple sources have noted that the IDF found large caches of Chinese weapons in Gaza, along with intelligence gathering equipment, and other military supplies.
The IDF found Chinese military equipment in Hamas warehouses, including large numbers of assault rifles (QBZ assault rifles) and grenade launchers (QLZ87 automatic grenade launchers), telescopic sights for rifles and cartridges for M16s, high-end communications equipment, listening devices, tactical military radios, and sophisticated explosives.
Additionally, the IDF discovered Chinese rocket technology in one of Hamas’ laboratories.
The PRC denied it, but even if the supplies were delivered by Iran, PRC officials knew that Iran forwarded equipment to Hamas. Certainly, Iran provided funding and training to use the equipment.
Chinese military technology is also in missiles used by Iran-supported terror groups such as Hezbollah (Chinese-made C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles were used in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War), the Houthis (anti-ship ballistic missile technology), and Iraqi militia groups.
Hamas conducted combined training operations four times with 10 other Palestinian terrorist groups simulating parts of the October 7, 2023, attack on the following dates (code-named “Strong Pillar”): December 29, 2020, December 26, 2021, December 28, 2022, and finally on September 12, 2023. These drills were well-publicized.
The late Mohammed Deif was Hamas’ military wing leader; he planned and conducted the October 7 attack, also called “Al Aqsa Flood.” Deif, along with Yahya Sinwar, coordinated the training with the 10 other groups for almost four years prior to the attack
In 1996, the PLO sent Deif to China, where he studied artillery and rocketry in the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) General Armament Department’s Ordnance Engineering College, which included courses on artillery, rocketry, and explosives.
While there, Deif married two Chinese Muslim and brought them to Gaza in 2000; it is said that one of the Chinese wives opened a channel to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership to maintain CCP and Hamas communications.
One source claims that the late Ismail Haniyeh studied at Renmin University in Beijing, and, perhaps, received training on other security topics.
The Israeli name for the network of tunnels under Gaza is “Metro.” Construction of the Metro under Gaza (and into Israel and Egypt) is a massive undertaking; the tunnel network, if linked end-to-end, measures more than 350 miles. One source noted that PLA military advisors and tunnel engineers helped design and build these tunnels.
PRC Ties Before October 7
Several events might indicate that China knew about the Hamas plans to invade Israel on October 7. Prior to that date, several meetings occurred, possibly related to pre-attack discussions:
May 8-9, 2023: A senior Iranian delegation visited China and met with the minister of the CCP’s International Liaison Department, and director of the CCP’s Central Foreign Affairs Office.
June 13-16, 2023: Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, and issued a Joint Statement between the PRC and the “State of Palestine” on the establishment of Strategic Partnership.
July 17, 2023: China’s ambassador to Iran, Chang Hua, met with the Secretary General of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council.
September 27, 2023: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left his three young adult children in China after the Asian Games. An ancient Chinese tradition of leaving your children under the care of a ruler was a pledge of loyalty (trust), and a means of protecting them.
After October 7
China has not condemned the terror attack led by Hamas and other malicious actors on October 7, 2023.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described Israel’s response to the terrorist attacks as “beyond the scope of self-defense,” and requested Israel to “cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza.”
These other developments have also taken place:
From March 1-2, 2024, 10 Palestinian factions including Hamas met in Russia.
On March 17, 2024, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met PRC Ambassador to Qatar, Cao Xiaolin and Foreign Ministry envoy Wang Kejian in Qatar.
On April 30, 2024, the PRC Foreign Ministry announced that Hamas and Fatah diplomats held “in-depth and candid dialogue” to promote reconciliation.
On July 23, 2024, Minister of PRC Foreign Affairs Wang Yi participated in the Beijing Declaration on “Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity” with 14 Palestinian factions including Hamas.
PRC diplomats blame Israel for the war in Gaza at the UN and at the UN Security Council.
Internally, the PRC has allowed PRC citizens to use antisemitic tropes and flagrant anti-Israel memes to reinforce bigotry on social media and in the news media. In a highly controlled communist media environment, what state officials say or do not say reflects the CCP’s views on the conflict.
Conclusions
The US and other allies of Israel should investigate China’s support for global terror organizations and take steps against it.
China’s actions supporting terrorism are like those of Iran, Cuba, Syria, and North Korea (which are currently on the US list of regimes supporting terrorism). China should not be exempt from the terror-supporting list because of its superpower status. It is time to list China.
States whose citizens fell victim (injured, kidnapped, and murdered) to the October 7 terror attacks should take further action against China. The four countries with the most murdered civilians are Israel (1,200), France (40 deaths), Thailand (39), and the US (34).
These steps would begin to mitigate the wrong done to the October 7 victims by China’s support for Hamas and the other Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.
Guermantes Lailari, a member of the Jewish Policy Center Board of Fellows, is a visiting research fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, and a retired USAF Foreign Area Officer.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.