The Palestinian political faction Fatah charged on air that Hamas had
deliberately killed aid workers, stolen aid and manufactured a food
crisis in Gaza, according to a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)
investigation published on Sunday.

A Fatah TV anchor reported that Hamas had attacked aid workers, stolen
food and water and caused food prices to skyrocket in the Gaza Strip �
which PMW said constituted a triple crime.

�Hamas� persecution of any party who is a source for distributing the
[humanitarian] aid or securing it began from the start of the war, as
Hamas persecuted well-known figures and teams of volunteers on the
ground in mid-October [2023],� the anchor said. �It attacked them and
killed some of them for two reasons: Firstly, to prevent any activity
by any [other] party in the Gaza Strip; and secondly, to ensure Hamas
control over the aid and its storage, which of course leads to these
crazy and unreal prices that no one can pay in the shadow of this
destruction.

�After the occupation bombed storehouses controlled by Hamas, the
accumulation of tons of various food and aid products that Hamas had
taken exclusivity over became clear, at a time when the Gaza Strip is
suffering from hunger.�

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Following the anchor�s comments, footage from an Al-Jazeera interview
was played which showed a woman in the enclave complaining that �the
aid isn�t reaching all the people� because the aid �is all to their
[own] homes. Let Hamas catch me and shoot me and do what they want to
me.�

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Despite a surplus of evidence indicating that Hamas is stealing aid in
Gaza, The European Union's foreign policy Chief Josep Borrell claimed
last month that Israel is not doing enough to ensure sufficient
humanitarian aid for Gazans, according to Reuters.

In April, the White House also claimed that Israel had not done enough
to ensure that enough humanitarian aid was entering Gaza.

Palestinian civilians complained to the IDF that Hamas stole aid, The
Jerusalem Post reported in January, alongside recordings of civilian
testimonies.

In one recorded call, a Gazan civilian testified that Hamas murdered
his cousin because he tried to seek help from UNRWA. In another
conversation, a civilian said he does not leave his home because he
fears Hamas will seize it and use the property to fire toward Israel
and destroy his house.

Testimony of a Gazan civilian regarding Hamas stealing food from Gazan
civilians (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has previously pushed for Islamic groups to
make donations to Gaza as a form of �financial jihad� against Israel.

�Dear brothers and sisters, let us call this 'financial jihad.' The
Islamic nation does not make 'donations,'� Haniyeh told a conference in
Qatar. "This is not just a humanitarian issue, despite its immense
importance and Gaza's need for any aid it can get. This is financial
jihad. We should revive this principle of Islamic jurisprudence in our
Islamic nation�the notion of waging jihad with one's life and one's
money."

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