Hamas’s Grip on Gaza NGOs Exposed as World Plans Post-War Rebuilding Efforts

Category: Persecution of Believers

Summary:
Newly obtained documents reveal that Hamas has systematically infiltrated and influenced foreign NGOs operating in Gaza, contradicting humanitarian organizations’ denials. The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor study shows that Hamas officials acted as "guarantors" within NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, overseeing activities and shaping aid distribution. Internal Hamas documents reveal efforts to use NGO officials for intelligence and to enforce Hamas-approved beneficiary lists for aid programs. This control allows Hamas to manipulate humanitarian operations and restrict NGO independence as world powers develop multi-billion-dollar plans for Gaza's reconstruction.

Tags: Hamas, Gaza, NGOs, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, aid distribution, intelligence

Source Excerpt:

Palestinians gather to collect aid supplies from trucks that entered Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed As world powers outline multi-billion-dollar plans to rebuild Gaza, newly obtained documents reveal that Hamas has long run a coordinated effort to penetrate and influence NGOs in the war-torn enclave — contradicting years of denials from major humanitarian organizations. On Wednesday, NGO Monitor — an independent Jerusalem-based research institute that tracks anti-Israel bias among nongovernmental organizations — released a new study revealing how Hamas has for years systematically weaponized humanitarian aid in Gaza, tightening its grip over foreign NGOs operating in the territory and exposing patterns of complicity and collaboration that contradict the groups’ persistent denials. While international media has repeatedly accused Israel of unfairly and illegally targeting humanitarian NGOs, Israeli officials have long argued that many of these groups have been infiltrated and manipulated by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that has ruled Gaza for nearly two decades — with t...

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Source: Algemeiner

Posted on 12-04-2025 01:03