Hamas jihadis caught on tape accusing leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid
Regardless of the facts, the world will go on blaming Israel.
Hamas gunmen caught on tape accusing leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid
Times of Israel, February 17, 2025:
In unencrypted radio communications intercepted by Israel in early 2024, low-level Hamas operatives in Gaza can be heard accusing their leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid and of ordering an attack on the wives of fighters who criticized them.
The recordings were broadcast by Channel 12 on Sunday. The report said that Israeli officials had played the recordings to counterparts in the Biden administration, in a failed bid to counter White House pressure to keep letting some 250 trucks of aid enter the Strip daily after the November 2023 truce-hostage deal fell apart.
Israel has accused Hamas of stealing the aid. The network, citing the recordings, said the aid reached Hamas’s leaders but not the operatives in the field.
“Tell the leadership in Khan Younis, we’ll beat you up,” one irate operative can be heard yelling. “You only take care of yourselves, there is no leadership.”
Even as aid flows in, the Hamas fighters can be heard complaining about dwindling supplies and growing casualties.
“Our condition is very harsh. We haven’t had an allotment for a long time. What is the leadership’s response?” one low-level operative can be heard saying. “They took everything, stole everything. Soon we won’t find anything to eat or drink.”
In a clip played separately, an identical-sounding operative says: “Regarding the funds we spoke about yesterday, almost nothing is left. We bought cigarettes for ourselves, some of [the money] went to cover our expenses. We want to bring flour.”
“It’s urgent, please,” says the operative. “I’m responsible for 170 souls, I told you 20 are wounded… there had been a few cans [of food]… we went [to get supplies] and there was nothing.”
Wives attacked
Those who accused Hamas of hoarding the supplies soon received notice that their wives had been attacked in a Rafah mosque, Channel 12 said. At the reported time of the recordings, the Strip’s southernmost city was inundated with displaced people from north Gaza, many of whom sheltered in mosques.
On the radio network, operatives blamed Hamas leadership for the attack on their wives. “I swear I’ll rain blows on all of you,” one operative yells….
Israel: Jihad terrorist responsible for murder of Israeli mother and her two sons is released from prison
It is nothing short of sickening to think of Muhammad Naifeh on the loose, in pursuit of more Israelis to murder. Naifeh “pledged to return to terror in ‘proud partnership’ with Hamas terrorists.” Naifeh demonstrates what many already know: that the Fatah-controlled government of the Palestinian Authority (PA) is no different from Hamas. For this reason, the PA must not be allowed to rule any territory that could allow it to compromise Israel’s security.
Just as joy and celebrations ring out for the Israeli hostages who were released, one cannot help but think about the other Israelis who have been and who will likely be murdered by released jihadist prisoners in the recent swap deal. The mastermind of October 7, Yahya Sinwar, was one such jihadist who had previously been released by Israel in the Gilad Shalit swap deal.
A former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, gives unique insight as he talks about the ceasefire and hostage exchange, pointing out the unique horror Israel faces in making such a decision:
by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, February 24, 2025:
With tragic poignancy, in the week that Israel is mourning the murder of Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, of Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel released the terrorist responsible for the murder of Revital Ohayon and her two sons, Matan and Noam, of Kibbutz Metzer.
Terrorist Muhammad Naifeh was convicted of involvement in the murder of 13 Israelis, including Revital and her sons, on their kibbutz in 2002. Like the images of Shiri Bibas trying to protect her children, Revital was murdered while hovering over her sons Matan and Noam, trying to protect them.
Last week, the murderer of Revital and her sons—literally moments after being released from prison in exchange for Israeli hostages and still on the terrorists’ bus—already pledged to return to terror in “proud partnership” with Hamas terrorists. He “saluted” them for successfully releasing the Fatah terrorists. “Thank you for all this sacrifice… We, as Fatah members, are proud of this partnership [with Hamas]..
This is the kind of madness Israel is dealing with.
Israel Katz Will Use Money Seized from Terrorists and Their Families to Pay Victims of Terrorism
From now on, Israeli security forces will confiscate cash and other assets belonging to imprisoned terrorists and the families of deceased terrorists, that had been provided to them by the Palestinian Authority. It’s a policy that is long overdue. More on the move by Defense Minister Israel Katz can be found here:
Jerusalem Post, February
Defense Minister Israel Katz imposed sanctions on Tuesday on security prisoners and their families who are citizens and residents of Israel and receive funding from the Palestinian Authority (PA).
According to the ministry’s statement, following the sanctions, security forces raided the homes of those subjected to the order, confiscating cash and assets amounting to hundreds of thousands of shekels.
The terror funds that were ordered to be liquidated were paid by the PA to terrorists who are currently serving sentences in Israeli prisons and released prisoners and their families for terror activities they committed, the ministry said.
In addition to the sanction, the ministry stated Israel had frozen NIS 470,000,000 from allotted funding to the PA, which is set to be allocated for the compensation of victims of terror.
“No more rewards for terrorism” Katz says
“We will not allow the Palestinian Authority to continue rewarding terrorists for murdering and harming Israeli citizens,” Katz said….
Even if the PA distributes funds to terrorists and their families as it has been doing, those funds will now be seized by Israel from their recipients and distributed to Israelis who were killed or wounded by terrorists, or to the families of the deceased. No longer will Israel be limited to deducing from the taxes to be transferred to the PA the amount Mahmoud Abbas spends on “Pay-For-Slay.” Now it can seize the cash and other assets, and provide those assets to Israelis harmed by Palestinian terrorists, and there is nothing the PA can do about it, except to rage impotently.
This should have happened years ago. Did no one in the Israeli government think about doing this before? Or did it take the October 7 atrocities, and the 16-month war in Gaza that followed, to concentrate wonderfully the minds of Israeli leaders on the limitless malignity of the Palestinians? Whatever the case, it’s most welcome: seizing the cash from their terror-linked recipients and using that money to make life less onerous for the Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism.
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