Hamas leaders living abroad have made billions off of funneling aid for the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Maj. Doron Spielman told Newsmax.
While Hamas is leading Palestinian Gazans into ruin, the leaders are living in exorbitant wealth abroad, Spielman told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."
"It's important to say, 'Where did this come from?' They didn't make this money by manufacturing cars," Spielman continued. "They made this money, Greta, by siphoning off the international aid." Israeli and Palestinian sources estimate Hamas, however, receives an annual military budget ranging from $100 million to $350 million.
That money, then, is used to fund terrorist operations like the deadly Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel, where over 1,400 civilians were killed.
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