Gaza can only dream: you won't believe how much the Hamas leaders' fortune is worth

 

Gaza can only dream: you won't believe how much the Hamas leaders' fortune is worth

The Daily Mail investigation reveals: senior Hamas officials have amassed a fortune of NIS 40 billion, live in luxury suites and own private jets - while the residents of Gaza live on NIS 1,100 a month

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13:47 24/10/2024

One photo illustrates the corruption at the top of Hamas more than anything else: Yahya Sinwar's wife, Samar Muhammad Abu Zemer, was seen in a tunnel under Gaza holding a Birkin bag from the luxury brand Hermes, worth approximately NIS 127,000. In an extensive investigation published by the British "Daily Mail", it appears that Three of the senior Hamas commanders - Ismail Haniyeh (who was eliminated), Musa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Mashal - together owned a fortune estimated at 40 billion shekels. Mashal alone, who may be the next leader of Hamas, owns a fortune estimated at 15 billion shekels - an amount that could finance all the residents of Gaza. While the residents of Gaza face unemployment of 45% and an average monthly salary of only about 1,100 shekels, the leaders of Hamas in Qatar They lived in the "Four Seasons" hotel in Doha, which includes two swimming pools, a private beach and a royal suite of 500 square meters. Mashal, who in 2013 even invited photographers to document his daily routine, used to be photographed in private planes and next to tables laden with delicacies, while the residents of Gaza find it difficult to leave the strip and many of them suffer from hunger.

A significant part of the funds, according to the British investigation, comes from the pockets of taxpayers around the world. Between the years 2014-2020, UN agencies flowed approximately 16 billion shekels into Gaza, with more than 80% of them transferred through UNRA (the UN Relief and Employment Agency for Palestinian Refugees). Iran is another major supporter of the organization. Although The ideological differences - Tehran is an extreme Shia state while Hamas is a Sunni organization - the Iranian regime sees Hamas as a tool to weaken Israel. Palestinian sources admit that as early as 1994, Iran transferred tens of millions of dollars to the organization, and since 2014 Iranian support is estimated at 9 billion shekels. Also Qatar It contributes significantly: according to the Washington Institute for the Defense of Democracies, the emirate donated more than 540 million shekels to Hamas in 2019, 360 million in 2020, and 1.3 billion in 2021. Currently, Qatar transfers about 450 million shekels to the organization annually Through "salary payments and welfare programs" that help Hamas maintain its control over the Strip.

In addition, Hamas raises hundreds of millions of dollars a year through criminal activity, mainly through taxing goods passing through the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings, and collecting duties on smuggling through the tunnels. According to the report, the organization collects over 43 million shekels a month from taxes on Egyptian goods imported into Gaza. A senior source in the Palestinian Authority was quoted as saying that the smuggling market has turned about 1,700 senior Hamas officials into millionaires. "The organization has operated like a mafia for decades. Did it ever want peace? Its leaders must have missed the opportunity to build a prosperous Gaza Strip when Israel withdrew in 2005. And they could have done it." Instead, after years of demanding that Israel leave Gaza, the organization responded with rockets and terrorism. The billions that the world poured into Gaza in order to build a prosperous community found their way into a network of tunnels, a smuggling economy and a patronage network that enriched the Hamas leadership. The residents of Gaza were left destitute. "For the leaders of Hamas, the war pays off. It has always been that way," concludes the Daily Mail. "And as long as this continues, as long as Hamas leaders get rich at the expense of their people's suffering, peace will remain more distant than ever. And for that, we will all continue to pay the price."

Source: לא תאמינו כמה שווה ההון של מנהיגי חמאס | חדשות מעריב

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