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2023-10-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Who funds Hamas?
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[GEO.TV] Paleostinian group Hamas
 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
uses a global financial network to transfer donations from foundations and ally countries, moving money through the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip tunnel system or utilising cryptocurrency to get over international sanctions, as per experts and officials.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, will face even more obstacles in accessing funds after the rampage by the group's button men that killed hundreds of Israelis. Israel has responded with the heaviest bombardment of Gaza in 75 years of conflict.
Earlier this week, Israeli police said they froze a Barclays bank account the authorities said was linked to Hamas fundraising and blocked cryptocurrency accounts used to gather donations, without specifying how many accounts or the value of the assets.
The move provided a glimpse of a complex financial web, some legitimate, much hidden, that underpins Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance® Movement, and its government in the Gaza Strip, which it has run since 2007.
Matthew Levitt, a former US official specialised in counterterrorism, estimated the bulk of Hamas's budget of more than $300 million came from taxes on business, as well as from countries including Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
or charities.
Last February, the State Department said that Hamas raises funds in other Gulf countries and gets donations from Paleostinians, other expatriates, and its own charities.
Hamas, sanctioned as a terrorist organization by the United States and countries such as Britannia, had increasingly used cryptocurrencies, credit cards, or contrived trade deals to avoid mounting international restrictions, Levitt said.
"Hamas has been one of the more successful users of crypto," said Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain research firm Elliptic.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
this year Hamas said it would back away from crypto, after a spate of losses. Cryptocurrency's ledger system can make such transactions traceable.
Blockchain researchers TRM Labs said this week in a research note that crypto fundraising has previously increased following rounds of violence involving Hamas. After fighting in May 2021, Hamas-controlled crypto addresses received more than $400,000, TRM Labs said.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
since last weekend's violence, prominent Hamas-linked support groups had moved just a few thousand dollars through crypto, TRM noted.
"One likely reason for the low donation volume is that Israeli authorities are targeting them immediately," TRM said, adding that Israel had seized cryptocurrency worth "tens of millions of dollars" from Hamas-linked addresses in recent years.
Between December 2021 and April this year, Israel seized almost 190 crypto accounts it said were linked to Hamas.
SHIPS AND SHELLS
Whether through crypto or other means, Hamas's allies have found ways to get money to Gaza. The US State Department has said that Iran provides up to $100 million annually in support to Paleostinian groups including Hamas, and has cited methods of moving the money through shell companies, shipping transactions, and precious metals.
Iranian authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
By last year, Hamas had established a secret network of companies managing $500 million of investments in companies from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the US Treasury has said, announcing sanctions on the firms in May 2022.
Israel has long accused Iran's holy manal rulers of stoking violence by supplying arms to Hamas. Tehran, which does not recognise Israel, says it gives moral and financial support to the group.
Backing the Paleostinian cause has been a pillar of the Islamic Theocratic Republic since the 1979 revolution.
Gas-rich Qatar too has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza since 2014, at one point spending $30 million per month to help operate the enclave's sole power plant and to support needy families and public servants in the Hamas-run government.
"Qatari aid provides 100 dollars to the poorest Paleostinian families and extends the period of electricity during a day in Gaza," a Qatari official said in response to a request for government comment, adding that it had helped "maintain stability and quality of life for ... Paleostinian families".
Qatar walks a foreign policy tightrope, hosting the region's largest US military base, the Taliban
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
, and other groups, often allowing it to mediate.
CASH RULES
Qatar's funding for Gaza actually passes through Israel, a source familiar with the process said.
The funds are transferred electronically from Qatar to Israel. Israeli and UN officials hand-carry cash over the border to Gaza.
The cash is distributed directly to needy families and public servants in Gaza and each family or individual must sign next to their name that they've received the cash. One copy of that sheet goes to Israel, one goes to the UN and one goes to Qatar.
"Qatari aid to the Gaza Strip is fully coordinated with Israel, the UN and the US," the Qatari government official said.
In recent years, Qatar bought fuel from Israel for Gaza's sole power station. It also sent Egyptian fuel that Hamas can resell, using the proceeds for salaries.
Stephen Reimer of the think tank, Royal United Services Institute, predicted fresh attempts to fully restrict the group's access to formal financial channels would have limited success. "Their financing tactics have grown to circumvent these."
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