Hamas’s chief in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar has said his organization has sufficient financial resources mostly provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran and will not touch aid money sent for reconstruction.
Palestinian groups in Gaza and Iranian officials more openly admit the degree of Iran’s support in providing arms, weapons know-how, training and cash to enable militants to fire rockets and missiles at Israel, after a ten-day-long military confrontation earlier this month. Militants fired thousands of projectiles at civilian targets in Israel.
Sinwar said, “We have sufficient financial resources… a large part of which are from Iran, and another part comes from Arab and Muslim donors and free people of the world who stand in solidarity with our people and their rights.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran spends billions of dollars to support allies and maintain proxy forces in the Middle East to further its influence. Many people in Iran resent this fact, as their own economic situation has deteriorated significantly in the past decade. Large anti-government protests since 2017 have been partly focused on the national wealth being spent abroad.
Sinwar pledged that militants will not use aid provided for reconstruction in Gaza, saying we “will make the task easier for everyone, and we will make sure that the process is transparent and fair, and let everyone be sure that no penny [of reconstruction funds] will go to Hamas.
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