Hamas’s Grip on Gaza NGOs Exposed as World Plans Post-War Rebuilding Efforts
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Category: Persecution of Believers
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New documents reveal that Hamas has systematically infiltrated and influenced NGOs operating in Gaza, contradicting their denials of such involvement. According to a study by NGO Monitor, Hamas-designated officials, called “guarantors,” have coordinated with major international NGOs, allowing Hamas to oversee activities and manipulate aid distribution. Internal Hamas documents identify these officials, some of whom are Hamas members or affiliates, and describe plans to use them for intelligence purposes. The findings highlight concerns that Hamas controls humanitarian operations in Gaza, affecting efforts to deliver aid and complicating the planned international reconstruction of the territory.
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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 00:33