“It was apparently intended to be an ultimate, devastating blow against Israel. This is suggested by new findings on the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. According to the New York Times and the Washington Post, the terrorist strategists around their leader Jahia Sinwar planned their attack in detail for more than two years. […] Hans-Jakob Schindler calls Iran's reaction to Hamas's request "typical". The leadership of the Islamic Republic almost always avoids an open "no" in negotiations and prefers to use formulations such as "further clarification required", says the senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project and head of the Berlin office.”

"Daniel Roth, Managing Director at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), stated that much of the underground system remains intact despite Israeli airstrikes and ongoing efforts to neutralise it.

He told the Daily Express: 'Given that Hamas constructed a subterranean complex, the so-called "Gaza metro", more extensive than the London Underground, it is completely feasible that much of the tunnel system is still functioning.'"

"Norman Roule, former national intelligence manager for Iran and senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, said, 'The intelligence community is vast, but so are the number of priorities assigned to its staff.' He added, 'Absent steady policymaker demand, the system moves resources — and demands on our partners — to targets that are perceived to have greater policymaker interest.'"

“There is a lot of speculation, but hardly any precise information. Since October 7, Israel has been hunting Jihia Sinwar , one of the masterminds of the massacre that the terrorist organization carried out in Israel that day. More than 1,200 people were brutally murdered, more than 250 were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. And the Hamas leader is still at large. […] To find out details about his whereabouts, one would have to be a member of the Israeli or American security apparatus, says Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project and head of its office in Berlin. "In my opinion, Sinwar is still in the Gaza Strip, or rather in the tunnels under the Gaza Strip ," Schindler told the Tagesspiegel.” 

"Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler calls the action unusual. After the killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian regime must assume that its security measures, which were long considered adequate, are no longer sufficient. “Israel has been interested in eliminating Nasrallah for years, but has been hesitant to attack Nasrallah directly,” says the expert from the international Counter Extremism Project. There have already been threats: While the Israeli Air Force was preparing its attack on Nasrallah's bunker in Beirut on Friday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York that "the long arm of Israel" could reach any place in Iran . His "message to the tyrants of Tehran" was: "If you attack us, we will attack you."”
 

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, the former British ambassador to Yemen who is now a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based non-profit organisation, said: 'To me, this is clear material support for terrorism. X has a lamentable history of failing to police itself properly against extremists [and] this is a problem that has clearly got worse since Twitter became X. The very fact that they sell blue tick marks to terrorist groups like the Houthis and the Taliban is obviously a breach of sanctions and a breach of the law.'"

"The operations of these traders are closely tied to the Houthi movement, which has been identified as a terrorist organization by both the United States and Australia. Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British Ambassador to Yemen and current member of the Counter Extremism Project, remarked, “It is inconceivable that they [the weapons dealers] are not operating on the Houthis’ behalf.” He elaborated that independent dealers attempting to engage with the Yemeni government for profit would face immediate suppression."