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Israel accuses World Vision's Gaza director of diverting cash to Hamas [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Israel accuses World Vision's Gaza director of diverting cash to Hamas
Charity defends Mohammad El Halabi, who Israeli security forces
say confessed during detention to being Hamas member
Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Thursday 4 August 2016 13.47 BST
Israeli security forces have arrested a senior official of one of the world’s largest Christian charities, accusing him of funnelling tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, including £80,000 from British donations.
Mohammad El Halabi, director of the Gaza branch of World Vision, is alleged to have led a double life as a senior figure in the Islamist organisation and used his position “to divert the humanitarian organisation’s funds and resources from the needy to benefit of Hamas’s terrorist and military activities”.
According to the allegations from Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, the money given by British donors was used to build a military base, dig military tunnels and pay salaries in Hamas’s military wing.
Other donations were allegedly transferred to buy weapons for Hamas in the Sinai during the period that Mohamed Morsi was president of Egypt.
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Charity defends Mohammad El Halabi, who Israeli security forces
say confessed during detention to being Hamas member
Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Thursday 4 August 2016 13.47 BST
Israeli security forces have arrested a senior official of one of the world’s largest Christian charities, accusing him of funnelling tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, including £80,000 from British donations.
Mohammad El Halabi, director of the Gaza branch of World Vision, is alleged to have led a double life as a senior figure in the Islamist organisation and used his position “to divert the humanitarian organisation’s funds and resources from the needy to benefit of Hamas’s terrorist and military activities”.
According to the allegations from Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, the money given by British donors was used to build a military base, dig military tunnels and pay salaries in Hamas’s military wing.
Other donations were allegedly transferred to buy weapons for Hamas in the Sinai during the period that Mohamed Morsi was president of Egypt.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/04/israel-world-visions-gaza-director-diverting-cash-hamas-mohammed-el-halabi
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