US EditionHamas Maintains Secret Salary Network for Gaza Civil Servants
- Hamas continues to pay salaries to about 30,000 civil servants in Gaza using a secret cash-based system despite ongoing Israeli strikes and economic collapse.
- This payment system endures because Hamas concealed roughly $700 million in physical currency within underground passages prior to its deadly assault on Israel on October 7, 2023.
- Employees receive encrypted messages directing them to meet at specified locations to collect sealed envelopes containing token salary payments amid unsafe conditions.
- A schoolteacher reported that his salary totaled 1,000 shekels , but most of the notes were too damaged to use, leaving only 200 shekels in acceptable condition; meanwhile, a Hamas worker expressed the fear of not returning home when collecting wages amid ongoing strikes.
- Hamas's clandestine payments, combined with soaring inflation and selective aid distribution, fuel growing resentment among civilians amid Gaza’s worsening humanitarian crisis.
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The BBC reveals the methods used by the Islamist organization to bestow on tens of thousands of civil servants the rewards, albeit reduced. And in the Strip the discontent increases.
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Hamas is quietly disbursing salaries to tens of thousands of operatives using clandestine, cash-based methods while systematically looting humanitarian aid bound for Gaza’s civilian population, according to a BBC investigation published Wednesday. The report confirms long-standing Israeli allegations that the terror group has hijacked the flow of international assistance, distributing life-saving supplies to its loyalists and black-market networ…
Hamas' leadership is under severe threat and its military capabilities are severely weakened after two years of war. That does not stop the terrorist movement from continuing to pay salaries to government employees - via a secret cash system, the BBC reports.
Hamas still pays salaries to employees in Gaza through a secret cash system. The payments involve secret meetings and can be life-threatening.
In a war-torn area of the world, the salaries of Hamas officials must continue to be paid
How Hamas continues to pay salaries to 30,000 civil servants
Despite the prolonged war and economic isolation, Hamas is still paying salaries to around 30,000 civil servants, disbursing an estimated $7 million through a covert cash-based payment system, according to a report
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