Mein Kampf Found in Gaza: What Hamas Really Wants

Takeaways:

• Israeli forces found Hitler’s Mein Kampf inside a Hamas base built in a child’s bedroom.
• Hamas-linked protests have carried swastika flags and Hitler portraits for years.
• The Hamas Charter borrows straight from Nazi conspiracy theories about Jewish global control.
• A senior Hamas official has publicly called for the slaughter of Jews worldwide.
• October 7 wasn’t about land. It was about killing Jews.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas led thousands of Palestinian terrorists across the border into Israel and carried out the worst massacre of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. Roughly 6,000 fighters from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and ordinary Gazan civilians poured into Israeli towns that morning. 

By the time it was over, about 1,200 people were dead, thousands wounded, and 251 dragged back into Gaza as hostages.

What stunned the world wasn’t just the scale. It was the brutality. Terrorists hunted down families inside their own homes. Children weren’t spared. Neither were the elderly. Anyone breathing became a target.

Nazi propaganda found in Gaza alongside terrorist plans: glorifying Hitler, demonizing Jews, and saturating society with hate, are echoed in certain Hamas and broader Islamist materials. 

It proves that Hamas violence against Jews has always been connected to a long-standing Jew-hatered, rather than just a dispute over land borders. It becomes evident that Hamas is not a nationalist movement but a movement inspired by genocidal Nazi ideology whose goal is to wipe out the Jewish people. 

A Manifesto In a Child’s Bedroom

In November, 2023, Israeli soldiers clearing a Hamas position in northern Gaza expected weapons, tunnels, maybe cash hidden in a wall. What they found in a child’s bedroom was a paperback copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic and sitting among the toys. This bedroom had been turned into a Hamas command post.

Reports note that the copy belonged to a Hamas fighter. It was “well‑thumbed,” with highlighted sections, Post‑its, and annotations, indicating intensive use rather than a decorative or random book.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog held up the copy of the book in an interview with the BBC on November 12, 2023 and said, “This is Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic. This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied over and over the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are.” 

He added, “This is the real war we are facing.”

A group fighting for “liberation” doesn’t usually keep Hitler’s blueprint on the shelf while planning attacks on civilians. This one did.

📖Read here about the oldest captive in Gaza, killed on October 7th. 

Another Copy Found

In October 2025, Israeli paratroopers searching offices in Hebron found yet another copy of Mein Kampf, sitting alongside other antisemitic material. The offices belonged to the Islamic Charity Association, a group that marketed itself as “a lifeline for the needy.”

The charity work was a front. Behind it, the organization quietly pushed incitement to terror, recruited operatives, and funneled money straight into Hamas’s terrorist activities.

Swastikas on the Border Fence

Hitler’s book wasn’t the only thing found from the Historical Naziism.  In 2018, Gazans at Hamas-organized border protests flew incendiary kites marked with swastikas into Israeli farmland. 

The same year, a group at a Hamas-linked rally carried a sign pairing a swastika with a photo of Hitler. 

In 2019, a Palestinian flag stitched with a swastika flew over a Gaza border protest, and Hamas leadership later grumbled that the image “hurts the cause.” That complaint says less about Hamas rejecting Nazi symbols and more about Hamas managing its image.

A Charter Written in Hitler’s Shadow

The Hamas Charter antisemitic language goes far beyond a local quarrel over territory. The 1988 founding document describes Jews as a hidden hand behind both World Wars and global media control, lifted almost word for word from old European conspiracy literature. 

Scholars studying the document have called it the most explicit link between Hitler’s antisemitism and modern political violence. The presence of Mein Kampf in Gaza and Hebron and the rhetoric found within Hamas literature point in the same direction.

The findings suggest that antisemitism is not a side issue within the movement. It is a theme that appears repeatedly in its literature, rhetoric, and public symbolism.

“Slaughter Every Jew on Earth”

In 2019, senior Hamas official Fathi Hamad told supporters to attack every Jew on planet Earth and slaughter and kill them. Around the same time, Hamas official Marwan Abu Ras claimed on television that the Holocaust never happened while also arguing Hitler had reasons to hate Jews.

 Holocaust denial and admiration for the man who carried it out, stated by the same movement, often within the same year. This is nazi-style antisemitism in Gaza laid bare.

 

A Clothing Store Named “Hitler 2”

A Gaza City clothing shop opened under the name “Hitler 2,” using Hitler’s name as a brand rather than hiding it. Mannequins in the storefront held knives, an open homage to the wave of stabbing attacks on Israeli civilians at the time. 

A second shop in southern Gaza copied the look soon after, this time with knife-wielding mannequins dressed as women. 

The “Hitler 2” store predates the current war by years and reportedly fell during the fighting that followed October 7. Its name, though, never needed translation. A storefront built around Hitler and street terror wasn’t hidden in Gaza. It was a selling point.

Why the World Keeps Looking Away

Hamas never needed a swastika flag to prove its goal. The charter said it in 1988. The rhetoric says it every year. Hamas isn’t about land for peace. Hamas is about killing Jews for the sake of killing Jews. 

The discovery of Nazi propaganda in Gaza should concern anyone who values biblical morality and human dignity.

Want to keep reading? Learn about a man whose son was killed by a UNRWA worker on October 7th in Gaza, affixed a mezuzah on the UNRWA compound in Jerusalem. Explore more on faith, values, and the Land of Israel at Sinai Project.