“In private meetings of Hamas’s Political Bureau, [Yahya] Sinwar frequently quoted Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X, reminding his colleagues that the decolonization of Palestine required not only religious piety but also anti-imperialist resistance. One statement from this period is remembered as follows: ‘Israel does not fear our mosques. It fears our unity, our discipline, our refusal to submit to oblivion, and our refusal to shirk the struggle.’”
—Mehr News Agency, “Negāhī be kār-nāmeh-ye ‘Shekārchī-ye Jāsūsān’” [A Look at the Record of the ‘Spy Hunter’], Mordād 26, 1405 [August 17, 2026].