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The footage, which spans thousands of hours, was reportedly obtained from surveillance cameras installed between 2018 and 2020

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
    27·
    8 days ago

    “Israel funded Hamas” is one of the most wrong-headed lies that is frequently repeated here.

    If you actually look into the specific accusations of what Israel did to “fund Hamas,” there are things that, before October 7th, humanitarians were calling on Israel to do.

    What did they do? They allowed funds raised for Gaza outside of the region to enter the strip where they could be put to use by the ruling party of Gaza (Hamas). They allowed humanitarian shipments containing things like pipes into Gaza, where Hamas weaponized them into missile casings. The issued work visas for more Gazans to enter Israel and earn a living, which Hamas used for reconnaissance. They forcibly shut down all Israeli settlements in Gaza, and withdrew any Israeli troops. Hamas took advantage of the power vacuum.

    When challenged on these backwards claims, pro Hamas reply guys will pull out a single 20-year old quote from someone without any policymaking authority. Or they’ll claim that the method used for the Gaza fundraising money to enter Gaza somehow proves the point.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
        25·
        8 days ago

        This article quotes a number of opinions of prominent commentators, but they’ve strangely failed to reference the law, directive, or “official policy” as you put it. It could be a careless oversight, or it could be that no such policy exists.

        • Sundial@lemm.ee
          7·
          8 days ago

          You clearly didn’t bother reading the article.

          Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that “if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas’s strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister.”

          In August 2019, former prime minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio that Netanyahu’s “strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.”

          The logic underlying this strategy, Barak said, is that “it’s easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to.”