Phenomenal reporting by @DailyMail: Undercover journalists checked...

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Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger
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Phenomenal reporting by @DailyMail: Undercover journalists checked into the Marriott’s Renaissance Cairo Mirage City and photographed Palestinian terrorists who've been housed there.

Unsuspecting families can still book rooms at the hotel. So who did they see at the hotel?🧵
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But first:

The Daily Mail understands that the convicted terrorists will apply for local visas and residence permits to be able to melt back into society, although they will be monitored by local security services.

A former Israeli intelligence officer known as Guy C added: ‘There are no restrictions on their movements in these countries.

‘They can walk freely, travel to Europe – even the UK – receive donations from naive supporters, and gain backing from protestors who already sympathise with them.
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Those staying at the resort include Mahmoud Issa, 57, who founded Special Unit 101 of the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a Hamas special forces unit in Hamas which specialises in kidnappings
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Izz a-Din al-Hamamrah, 47, who recruited suicide bombers and planned hijackings, is also staying at the luxury hotel
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Samir Abu Nima, 64, who was imprisoned for the 1983 Jerusalem bus bomb attacks, which killed six people, including an 11-year-old child
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Kidnapper Ismail Hamdan, 57, is also among the more than 150 highly dangerous extremists staying at the resort
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Yousuf Dawud, 39, is one of the terrorists deemed too dangerous to remain in the West Bank or Gaza
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When the Daily Mail arrived, armed Egyptian security patrolled the hotel, which freed prisoners can only leave with permission.

Among those allowed to leave was Basem Khandakji, who drove a 16-year-old suicide bomber to the 2004 Carmel Market attack that killed three.
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