Hamas is reportedly running out of money to pay fighter jets as Israeli forces slowly approach the terrorist organization, an intelligence reporting official told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Arab, Israeli and the US intelligence agency I said Targeting strikes against major Hamas officials, the WSJ has halted resale of its aid package and raised funds, resulting in terrorist organisations having little option to pay soldiers. Many Hamas officials had only received half of their salary until March, but in recent weeks some payments to Gaza government employees have stopped altogether.
“The January ceasefire and simultaneous rise in aid to Gaza allowed Hamas to replenish some of its cash supply,” Shoshana Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Centre, told the Daily Callenar News Foundation. “Now, aid is detained, with coordinated efforts to block Israel’s access to bank funds and destroy the money distribution network, the remaining amount of the bank is irrelevant.” (Related: Israel reportedly discusses full Gaza acquisition with US officials)
The war has been raging for more than two years since Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel. They take 240 hostages and kill nearly 1,200 people. Many of the hostages were either returned or died in captivity during the short ceasefire between January and March.
The Palestinian extremist group Hamas fighters have a changed portrait of the Israeli Prime Minister and Vivas family and stands on stage before handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages of Khan Yunis in South Gaza, Gaza on February 20, 2025.
Hamas is distributing the funds through a courier system that creates simple targets for the Israeli military, officials told the WSJ. The place for distribution is often set on stones, allowing Israel to direct strikes more effectively.
Israel has stated its radical security zone In Gaza, it remains after the war was officially closed. So far, Israel has seized almost half of all land strip After the first ceasefire fell in March and ground forces resumed operations.
“Even if they were sitting in a lot of cash, their ability to distribute it would be very limited now,” Eyal Ofer, an open source researcher on the Gaza economy, told WSJ.
Hamas uses humanitarian flows from around the world to fund its businesses, including charging taxes from merchants, collecting truck tolls at checkpoints and directing the products they sell.
Sometimes they even help workers participate in Hamas activities in person.
For example, workers from the United Nations Relief and Labor Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) may have participated in the October 7 attack that sparked the war in 2023. UNRWA had around 13,000 employees in Gaza.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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