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2024-04-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Secret letters written by Hamas boss who planned October 7 attack reveal Iran paid the terror group £200million
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Letters exchanged by Hamas leaders have revealed how Iran appears to have awarded at least £200 million to the Palestinian militant group since 2014.
One document, seemingly written in 2020 by a top official in Hamas' armed wing, Marwan Issa (Abu Baraa), and addressed to the group's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar (Abu Ibrahim), showed a table of payments totalling $154 million from the Islamic Republic to Hamas coffers.
A second handwritten letter in November 2021 goes on to show the receipt of at least another $68 million and references to further expected payments.
The Israeli military, which allegedly uncovered the letters amid their operations in Gaza, told The Times they believe the documents prove Iran's systematic funding of the Hamas group prior to the October 7 attacks which prompted the outbreak of war.
They claim the money was transferred into Hamas accounts in Gaza via a complex system that sees members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force (IRGC-QF) deliver huge sums of cash to Hamas contacts in Lebanon.
Once in Beirut, the money is squirrelled across the border by a network of money-changers using shell companies, crypto-currency, shipping transactions and various credit schemes to funnel the money to Hamas chiefs.
The documents detail how much of the money was paid directly to several top Hamas officials including Issa and Sinwar, as well as Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and military commander Mohammed Deif, all of whom were implicated in planning the October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians.
But Israel and the US have targeted the Hamas elite and have also worked to dismantle the networks that continue to fund the Palestinian group.
Issa is believed to have died in an Israeli airstrike on March 11, according to the IDF and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
And though Haniyeh is sheltering from the IDF's bombs in Qatar, three of his sons and several of his grandchildren are said to have been killed in a strike in Gaza earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Saleh al-Arouri, another Hamas official marshalling the group from Beirut who was thought to be a key link in the money-changing chain, was killed in a drone strike in January.
Then on April 1, an Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate building in Damascus, Syria, killed 13 people, including Quds force generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi.
Zahedi is thought to have worked with al-Arouri to deliver IRGC funds to money-changers in Lebanon.
Mohammad Surur, a man said to be connected to Hezbollah facilitating payments to Hamas, was found dead near the Lebanese capital earlier this week.
For its part, the US has launched a battery of sanctions designed to cripple the money-changing network Hamas relies on to receive payments from Iran.
Financial exchanges in Gaza, an Iraqi airline and backers of Iranian-linked militias in Iraq were just some of the entities subject to economic freezes in measures announced in January by the US Treasury.
'Sanctions are just one of the many levers at our disposal when it comes to holding Iran and some of its proxies accountable,' State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told a news briefing.
The moves would have 'tangible impacts' on groups Washington blames for destabilising the Middle East, Patel said.
For example, he said, the US hoped blacklisting Iraq's Fly Baghdad airline and its chief executive would 'disrupt' the airline's alleged role in carrying supplies and personnel into Syria for the Quds Force. 
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