.@Eyalo365: In Israel, there is a total lack of understanding of how Hamas finances itself. I still hear nonsense like "Iran is 70% of Hamas's funding" (Yaron Blum on the other day with Oded Ben Ami - Israeli veteran TV presenter - JP). It is not for nothing that I mentioned in a number of interviews and articles last week how, due to a special coincidence, we learned that 10% of the employees of the WCK organization are Hamas members. An organization that was introduced into Gaza only this year by Israel, already contains 62 Hamas members (out of 584 employees hired this year alone). From my distant past experience, I assure you that a significant percentage of its employees are relatives of Hamas members. Hamas is a mafia and a clan business: one brother in the military wing, another brother in the police, and they make sure that the sister works at UNRWA, the cousin with a non-combat profile will be a driver for an aid organization and the uncle gets a government job, another cousin is a "journalist" for Al Jazeera, and the grandmother is on the list of aid recipients. What we still don't understand is how much the PA continues to fund Hamas. It has done so for years. Even when, at times, an open conflict arose between them and Mahmoud Abbas withheld salaries (which led to the Qatari money suitcases). So here's an example of European money, which is not even channeled to the PA but to a semi-governmental fund for urban development. It's only $3 million, but there are lots of similar projects. This fund is issuing a tender for (I'm not kidding:-) "Consulting services - social activity for a green Gaza and preventing climate change." What are the chances that the Hamas government in Gaza will manage to screw its people or their relatives into the recipients of this Belgian grant. In my opinion: 100%. Long live the climate in the "green" Gaza. Thank you to the Belgian government for its contribution. Multiply this story 200 times and you'll see how Hamas is funded. Not just from Iran (Iran is, in the extreme case, 5%-10% of Hamas' funding). The vast majority of Hamas' funding is its ability to divert funds that the world is funneling to the PA and Gaza. https://t.co/pQOmKZcZQY https://bird.makeup/@eyalo365/1869993800707592277
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