Cash-strapped Hamas can't pay fighters as Israeli offensive hits funding sources -- report

[Beastly Boy]

Palestinian terror group Hamas does not have enough cash to pay its fighters, with resources drying up as a result of Israel renewing its offensive in the Gaza Strip last month and halting humanitarian aid deliveries, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing Israeli, Arab and Western officials.According to Arab intelligence officials, salaries to many Hamas government workers have stopped, and since last month, many senior operatives and political figures have only gotten about half their usual pay. Rank-and-file Hamas operatives have been getting only about $200-$300 a month.

Moumen Al-Natour, a Palestinian lawyer from the Al-Shati camp in central Gaza, told the Journal that Hamas has “a big crisis” on its hands. “They were mainly dependent on humanitarian aid sold in black markets for cash,” explained Al-Natour, who has opposed the Hamas regime.

Throughout the war, Hamas had been taking aid supplies and selling them to raise money, according to Israeli, Arab, and Western officials, none of whom were named in the report. The group charged taxes from merchants, collected customs at checkpoints, and seized goods that it then resold.

By the time a January ceasefire started, Hamas was in a crisis, but the truce brought in more aid, reviving its finances, officials said. But when the ceasefire collapsed in March, Israel halted aid deliveries and resumed its attacks on Hamas, deepening the group’s plight. In addition to not being able to pay its operatives, Hamas is also struggling to get new recruits and maintain a united front among the population against Israel, with Gazans occasionally demonstrating against the group for not ending the war, the report noted.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/cash-strapped-hamas-cant-pay-fighters-as-israeli-offensive-hits-funding-sources-report/

It has been widely reported (and just as widely disregarded) that Hamas has been controlling the distribution of and profiteering from the humanitarian aid being sent to Gaza at the expense of the Gazans. This article makes clear to what extent Hamas is dependent on exploiting this resource in order to finance terror.

Hamas is the interested party in this scheme. This is the same Hamas which exclusively controls the statistics that the NGOs use without questioning its authenticity to determine the amount of aid to be allocated to Gaza. There is no way those NGOs don't realize that they are complicit in funding terrorism, yet their acceptance of Hamas.

There is a direct connection between Hamas reports and Hamas ability to to wage terror.

Still, their reports are routinely presented in the media as God's honest truth.

WTF?, and how long is this aberration going to continue?

[nycbos]

1. Terrorists can't get money.

Oh no