Hamas exploits UN cash app for Gazans, steals vital aid meant for civilians

Monthly monetary transfers of the United Nations to the inhabitants of Gaza inadvertently strengthen the Hamas terrorist organization, because the group and associate traders continue to control the flow of money in Enclave, said expert Hamas financial and economic operations.

“Hamas seizes his role de facto ruler gauze to pull out financial gains from the money he sent UN organizations civilians through applications that are still operating in the region, “Eyal Ofer told Fox News Digital.

“Hamas and associate traders manipulate the help system. Hamas mostly does it behind the scenes, using their control over large merchants, criminal families and using cash to establish a banking system in the shadow in Gaza.”

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Each month, international organizations send significant amounts to the Gaza economy. The UN World Food Program (WFP) transmits about $ 18.43 million, reaching 82,636 families, with each family an average of $ 209, according to open code. The monthly help of UNICEF is an average of $ 5 million, helping to achieve at least 20,000 families each month.

“I’m going to the market and I get to know people whose job is to provide cash in exchange for compensation,” said Gaza Shahab Yousef resident Israeli news agency TPS-Il. “The fee is 20-30%. If I transfer 1,000 shekel [$271] I return 700 [$190]”He said.” For a big purchase, I pay digital. But I need cash on the market, and I lose 30 percent every time. “

Another Gaza resident Nidal Qawasmeh expressed a similar frustration of TPS-Il. “These people charge 30 percent just to give you money. I just want to take care of my family, but it all costs me more. The prices are crazy.”

The specific amount received per family is about $ 270 each month (or 1,000 new Israeli shekel), which is calculated as 80% of the minimum survival basket for Fox News Digital. Smaller organizations such as UNFPA and other contributions, which in total brings about $ 39.66 million a month, reaching 60% of Gaza households, according to open data sources.

Despite the extent of direct financial assistance, which reaches more than half of the population of the enclave, the strong insecurity of food gauze and high inflation (91% and 118%, respectively, has been underlines its importance since January 2024). However, the way that money is circulating in Gaza is far more complex. “Hamas control A large part of the money entering Gaza through various channels, “Ofer told Fox News Digital,” People who get money through mobile applications have to turn it into cash for use in local markets, but this includes large fees, with many gearboxes related to Hamas or its allies. “

The TPS-II reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar recently warned that Hamas’s economic power in Gaza relied on billions of shekel in cash, paid as salaries and quickly returned to tax merchants. In a letter to the governor of Israel, prof. Amira Yaron, Sa’ar called on the cancellation of the 200-sho-hekel laws previously introduced to Gaza, saying that experts believe that the move would seriously harm the Hamas financial network. Israel’s bank rejected the proposal, stating the technical reasons and claiming that the implementation was not feasible.

Ofer’s research has revealed that fees can range from 20% to 35%, which means that recipients lose a significant part of help only to approach it. “IN Videos from GazaYou can see merchants who refuse to accept applications and force customers to turn them into money, knowing that they will lose at least 20% in the process, “he said.

Peter Gallo, International Lawyer and former UN investigator for the UN internal surveillance services at the UN, told Fox News Digital, “If an investigator in Israel can understand it, he knew or should know or have to know. Twenty to thirty percent is just funny. It is extortion. Honestly. Honestly, the agencies for help could not have an alternative, they were better since the beginning. “

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UNICEF spokesman told Fox News Digital, “UNICEF is aware of the Gotovina liquidity crisis in Gaza and a continuous lack of hard money, which is a direct consequence of the inability of the banking system to function in the midst of a underway.

“Since May 2024, UNICEF has introduced a completely digital payment of cash via e-novice, which at no point requires hard cash. Using e-novels, the recipients of humanitarian digital monetary transfers can buy goods such as food, hygiene objects and medicine without any management of physical money,” said a spokesman.

“The use of digital e-novitals can be accessed through the application and works on the most basic smartphones. When implemented, these digital cash payments via e-novčanika eliminate the need to convert money and, therefore, payment of any fee. UNICEF Humanitarian Digital Cash Program is complied with and any agency ACTS ACTS ACTS ACT.

A spokesman claimed: “More than 1.8 million people – closed to the whole population of Gaza – faced with extreme food uncertainty, with at least half of the children. … Acute malnutrition is growing in alarming rates. UNICEF humanitarian switching in accordance with their budget, which are not in accordance with their war at war In the middle of the war in the war, for humanitarian monetary transfers in Gaza, an average of $ 5 million to support around 20,000 families.

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The World Food Program did not respond to several comment requests.

“Eye turn is not acceptable. The UN Security Council has been engaged in terrorist financing since 2001, but the help agencies continue to neglect the fact that Hamas has been profit from that flow of money, despite international efforts to stop terrorist funding,” Gallo said.