After Hamas launched its attack on Israel, the deadliest in 50 years in the Jewish state, many in the West focused on Iran’s funding of the group. However, what was not said by Western lips, notes the Wall Street Journal, is that Hamas filled its coffers with money given by Israel itself and the international community. The Wall Street Journal in the publication, citing officials and Western analysts, presents the ways of financing the political arm of the organization that controls the Gaza Strip. As mentioned, in the last two years there has been a relative economic mobility in the Palestinian enclave blocked by land, air and sea. According to independent researchers, as well as current and former Western security officials, the Islamist group has raised tens of millions of dollars by siphoning off humanitarian aid and taxing the economic activity brought on by the opening of trade in the Palestinian enclave. International aid “was designed to be humanitarian in nature, but money […]
Source: News Beast
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