Normally I'd agree with you that Daily Mail is not to be trusted, but the meetings absolutely happened:
Hamas officials join Nelson Mandela’s family at ceremony marking 10th anniversary of his death - AP
The novel information being presented in this article is exactly who was part of that delegation (and potential inclusion of PFLP representatives in that delegation)
I worked with mosh for years to connect to servers on other continents. It was impossible to work otherwise. It only has two small warts: forwarding, and jump hosts.
The second is fixable/ish with an overlay network, but that isn't always an option if you don't control the network. I tried to solve this with socat but wasn't able to configure it correctly - something about the socket reuse flag was very unhappy.