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Hamas moneymen who transferred $169 million to terror group killed in Gaza strike, IDF says
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Two Hamas moneymen responsible for transferring half a billion shekels (approximately $169 million) to the terror group were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip last week, the military announces.
The strike in southern Gaza on Wednesday killed Hussein Qadra and Mohammed Farra, who the IDF says served in the military wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group but operated under a “Hamas-run financial network responsible for transferring funds into the Gaza Strip.”
“Qadra, who headed the network, together with Farra and other operatives, acted under the direction of Hamas leadership and facilitated the transfer of more than NIS half a billion to Hamas’s military wing by operating a network of dozens of couriers and money exchangers in Turkey and the Gaza Strip,” the military says.
“Through these funds, the Hamas terror organization continued, especially in recent months, to pay salaries to its terrorists and finance terror activities against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, in violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the military says.
In recent months, the IDF has struck and killed several Hamas financial operatives in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
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