A senior official of Hamas and a major fundraiser for the terrorist group is living freely in Turkey.
Zaher Jabarin oversees Hamas’ international fundraising and finances, including securing and transporting funds from Iran into Hamas coffers inside the Gaza Strip. Jabarin conducts his business from Turkey, working out of Hamas office space in Istanbul, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Jabarin’s work for Hamas, which the U.S. estimates is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, enabled the terror group to purchase the equipment and supplies necessary to pull off its October 7 invasion of Israel that resulted in the murders of some 1,200 Israelis and the capture of hundreds more.
“Jabarin played a huge role because he handles all of Hamas finance outside Gaza,” former Israeli security official Uzi Shaya told WSJ. “Jabarin is the CEO of Hamas.”
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Jabarin denies any ties to terror, claiming that his only work is done for the political side of Hamas, its political party that rules the Gaza Strip. He claims that the Hamas organization’s military side, known as the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, functions separately. He attributed accusations that he has ties to terror to disinformation from Israel.
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