Mohammad Alfatih Naim has for a long time been a member of Hamas. For several years he served as the bodyguard for Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas who was killed by Israelis in 2024. His father is a high official of Hamas in Gaza, as its health minister. Yet Naim not only was allowed to settle in the U.K. as a “refugee” — how could a member of Hamas be a “refugee” from Hamas-ruled Gaza? — but was even granted British citizenship. He is now being tried in a British court, not for his Hamas-related activities, but for stabbing a bailiff who had come to collect 2,250 pounds in unpaid parking tickets accumulated by his wife.
More on Naim’s story can be found here: “The UK Gave an Ex-Hamas Bodyguard Asylum. Now He’s Wanted for Plotting to Kill Jews.” By Jonathan Sacerdoti, Algemeiner, November 13, 2026:
There is a photograph taken outside the Israeli embassy in London in April 2022 that ought to be of considerable interest to the British government. Among the Palestinian flags and placards, a man in a high-visibility steward’s vest appears to be Mohammed Alfatih Naim. Until relatively recently, his duties had involved the personal protection of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas who was killed in July 2024. Today, German prosecutors accuse Naim of helping to assemble an arsenal for the murder of European Jews.
The organization whose stewards wore vests like his, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), was designated a terrorist entity by Egypt just a few days ago. In Britain, the photograph captures something of the peculiar political landscape in which Islamist organizations have been able to operate.
Among the speakers that day was Husam Zomlot, now the Palestinian ambassador to Britain. His previous posting was in Washington, where he headed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission until the first Trump administration ordered its closure in 2018. His wife and children had their visas revoked and were forced to leave America.
The London demonstration was organized by MAB alongside the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the Stop the War Coalition, and other groups. These organizations occupy a surprisingly central position in British political life. PSC enjoys extensive trade union affiliations and counts former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn among its longstanding patrons. Corbyn also chaired Stop the War before becoming Labour leader.
The alliance between these elements of the British left and Islamist activists was consolidated during the campaign against the Iraq War. MAB helped organize the enormous anti-war demonstration in London in 2003, establishing relationships that have endured and now help sustain Britain’s almost permanent campaign of street demonstrations against Israel…
According to German prosecutors, Naim collected five handguns in Berlin in July 2025 and transported them to Vienna. He allegedly recorded a masked video threatening a “message in blood” on behalf of Hamas’s military wing. Seven other suspected Hamas members have been charged in connection with the operation, which allegedly amassed an automatic rifle, 13 pistols, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition….
While enjoying British citizenship, Naim continued to work actively on the Continent, in Berlin and Vienna, for Hamas’ military wing, obtaining handguns to be used in attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets.
Meanwhile, Britain is facilitating the arrival of more Palestinians from Gaza and has reopened its refugee resettlement scheme with provisions specifically for Palestinians. An immigration tribunal recently ruled that one Palestinian refugee could bring 18 extended family members here from Gaza, overriding the Home Office’s refusal.
But why should the British public be worried about the government’s decision to “welcome” an influx of Palestinians? Unlike other “refugees,” who must have their status reviewed every 30 months, the Palestinians arriving under the new initiative will be granted immediate, indefinite leave to remain in the country, shortening the route to permanent settlement and citizenship. Won’t those Palestinians carry the virus of virulent antisemitism, and hatred for the Jewish state, with them when they settle in the U.K.? And for every thousand Palestinians now to be allowed into the U.K., another 18,000 may be admitted as part of an extended family reunification scheme. Has the British government considered the effect of such an influx on the physical safety of its Jewish citizens?
Naim had been a bodyguard for the leader of Hamas. His own father is the Hamas health minister in Gaza. How many of those Palestinians claiming asylum, whether living under rule by Hamas in Gaza or under the rule of the Palestinian Authority, are in danger of “persecution”? Corruption, incompetence, and misrule, undoubtedly, but that is not persecution.
Had Naim not stabbed a bailiff, and been put on trial, the British media might not have delved into his history as a Hamas bodyguard, and as a participant in preparing attacks on Jewish targets in Germany. The British government has to investigate itself. On what grounds was this illegal migrant allowed in, and granted asylum? And even more disturbing, why was he granted British citizenship? And after his conviction in a German court, and he has served his sentence, will the British government assure the public that he will be stripped of that citizenship and deported back to Gaza?
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