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Through the sugar trade: The Armed Forces unveiled a transfer of funds to Hamas
Suspicious activity uncovered in Gaza led to the disclosure of sums of money from seemingly legitimate deals - which reached the military wing of Hamas.
In order to expose the financial network, about 230 tons of sugar confiscated by a money changer recognized as the organization's assistant were confiscated.
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Amir Bohbot
Thursday, 01 July 2021, 14:18
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The IDF Intelligence Division today (Thursday) unveiled a route for the transfer of funds to Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip and to terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria through the sugar trade.
A joint operation by the Military Intelligence Division, the National Economic War on Terrorism Headquarters at the Ministry of Defense and the National Center for Cargo Diagnosis in the Tax Authority recently revealed suspicious activity of food trade in the Gaza Strip. known as a collaborator senior Hamas military wing. the latter is used also as owners of companies which have been declared a terrorist organization after previously exposed their aid to Hamas activities.
As part of the deception of Israeli law enforcement agents, moneychanger and companies owned financed procurement of goods,
Among other things, sugar and other basic food products intended for sale to Gaza residents, and the proceeds from the operation were intended to be transferred at the end of the process to Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip.
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Significant funding from Hamas' military wing was avoided.
230 tons of confiscated sugar (Photo: Walla !, system).
After the information was examined by legal sources, it was presented to Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, who signed an administrative seizure order to confiscate about 230 tons of sugar that were on their way to the Gaza Strip. The goods were supposed to enter "innocently" through the Kerem Shalom crossing, after conducting a security check that would not reveal anything about the Hamas fraud process.
Security sources said last night that this activity exposed and damaged Hamas' extensive infrastructure for financing terrorism through the import of goods into the Gaza Strip. According to the suspicion, the terrorist organization Hamas operates an infrastructure of money changers, merchants and companies, which import goods into the Gaza Strip, in order to bring millions of dollars into the Strip, and from there - to the organization's various military units.
Sources in the defense establishment said that this was not the first operation carried out, and that with the help of intelligence and operational operations, Israel had succeeded in harming a number of financing routes and confiscating goods in an administrative seizure order.
Gantz said, "We will continue to fight terrorism and dry up its budgetary resources. Just as we will not allow money to be transferred directly to Hamas, we will do everything we can to prevent indirect deputies from financing its intensification.
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