The huge sums are spent not on the residents of Gaza but on depraved attacks against Israel and on luxurious lifestyles abroad for Hamas' top brass.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, between the Emir of Qatar.
Hamas internally calls it the “secret portfolio”. The terrorist organisation maintains a huge network of companies, as documents exclusively seen by the German newspaper WELT show. The names of German banks also appear. Hamas bosses live far from Gaza in luxury hotels.
Even before the current war, half of the Palestinians in Gaza were dependent on food aid from the United Nations. Now UNRWA, the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, is warning that the territory, home to more than two million