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Israel Continues to Provide Economic Assistance to Hamas
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - Israel continues to provide economic assistance to Hamas - in clear opposition to the professional recommendations of IDF leadership. According to the military, the 4,200 weekly deliveries of food and fuel into Gaza are far higher than the Gaza population's actual needs. "We know with high confidence that Hamas has at least 400 million shekels in cash inside the Strip," an IDF officer explained. "Hamas has accumulated these huge sums over years of preparation for a rainy day, for a long siege, and this is one of the reasons why the Gazan public is not rebelling against it. Hamas continued to pay salaries to tens of thousands of its officials and activists throughout the war....It has financial reserves for years to come." Hamas reportedly "looted" the Bank of Palestine in Gaza City early in the war and moved large sums from the bank's vaults to its underground emergency assets that have not yet been found.