Posted on 04/17/2025 5:05:48 AM PDT by karpov
Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file.
Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said.
In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said it killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist financing for Hamas as well as a number of top political officials in rapid succession.
The result for Hamas has been a debilitating squeeze.
Salary payments to many Gaza government employees have ceased, while many senior Hamas fighters and political staff began receiving only about half of their pay midway through last month’s Ramadan holy period, the intelligence officials said. Rank-and-file Hamas fighters’ pay had been averaging around $200 to $300 a month, they said.
The shortfalls are creating hardship across Hamas’s ranks in Gaza’s cash economy and signal a deepening organizational dysfunction in the militant group as it also contends with a more aggressive Israeli military strategy.
“Even if they sit on large amounts of cash, their ability to distribute it would be very limited right now,” said Eyal Ofer, an open-source researcher on Gaza’s economy. Ofer said Hamas’s typical payment methods were to have a courier carry cash or to set up a disbursement point, either of which could create targets for Israeli troops. “Those two things would grab attention,” he said.
Hamas didn’t respond to a request for comment on its financial position or its methods for sourcing cash.
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Good. Hamas should not be allow to siphon humanitarian aid to fund terrorism. The aid would not be necessary if it had not attacked Israel and provoked an invasion.
hit up Harvard again!! I’m sure they would be happy to make another contribution!!
Drive everyone in Gaza into the Sinai. 40 years in the desert fixed the Israelites, maybe it can fix these scumbags too. Meanwhile actual civilized humans can turn Gaza into another Dubai.
Maybe it is because USAID no longer fund terrorists??
Has Israel killed off the billionaires and millionaires of Hamas yet?
yes. through the dispatch of USAID
If only they invested in Tesla instead of tunnels........................
Salary payments to many Gaza government employees have ceased, while many senior Hamas fighters and political staff began receiving only about half of their pay
If Israel keeps the pressure on, they will continue to grind down Hamas. In time, Hamas will become almost irrelevant, and Israel will be able to reorder and rebuild Gaza.
why does the graphic behind these guys have a 6 fingered hand ?
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....what ? ...do they think they are nephilim ? ( they arent ) or do they just emulate them ? . .
Their top leadership which is in Qatar sits on billions that they skimmed off the top from UN & US foreign aid as well as contributions from Gazans.
What good is your salary when you’re surrounded by the Israeli army?
Who knows for sure. Some of them might be Nephilim.
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they think they are philistines , they arent,, but you are right,, some could be nephilim.
gen 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
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