{"id":45220,"date":"2016-08-07T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45220"},"modified":"2016-08-06T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T07:16:21","slug":"07-05-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45220","title":{"rendered":"Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Times of Israel\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/images\/thetimesofisrael-529x60.png\" alt=\"The Times of Israel\" width=\"45%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-hamas-stole-tens-of-millions-from-world-vision-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Judah Ari Gross<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">World Vision charity denies its Gaza chief diverted 60% of his budget to terror group, which allegedly used the cash to finance weapons, tunnels<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBHkY5C599U\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Over the course of several years, the Hamas terrorist organization siphoned off \u201ctens of millions of dollars\u201d from the US-based World Vision charity for its military wing, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Those funds \u2014 allegedly 60 percent of the charity\u2019s total budget \u2014 were used to purchase weapons, dig tunnels and construct military installations for Hamas, investigators said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Muhammad Halabi, a Hamas member and manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was indicted on a number of security-related charges in a Beersheba court on Thursday for his role in the alleged scheme. He was arrested in a joint Shin Bet-IDF-Israel Police operation at the Erez Crossing on June 15 as he tried to return to the Strip, the Shin Bet said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Halabi, a member of Hamas from a young age, was handpicked to infiltrate the international charity in 2005 in order to steal money for the terrorist organization, according to the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThis was a meaningful and important investigation that showed \u2014 above all \u2014 the cynical and crude way in which Hamas takes advantage of funds and resources from international humanitarian aid organizations,\u201d the Shin Bet said in a statement.<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1439981 alignleft\" title=\"Muhammad Halabi, a member of Hamas and manager of the World Vision charity's operations in the Gaza Strip, was indicted on August 4, 2016, for diverting the charity's funds to the terrorist organization. (Shin Bet)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-08-04-at-13.22.55-1-e1470314017361.jpg\" alt=\"Muhammad Halabi, a member of Hamas and manager of the World Vision charity's operations in the Gaza Strip, was indicted on August 4, 2016, for diverting the charity's funds to the terrorist organization. (Shin Bet)\" width=\"20%\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Muhammad Halabi, a member of Hamas and manager of the World Vision charity&#8217;s operations in the Gaza Strip, was indicted on August 4, 2016, for diverting the charity&#8217;s funds to the terrorist organization. (Shin Bet)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In a statement released following the indictment, World Vision defended Halabi and denied the allegations against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cBased on the information available to us at this time, we have no reason to believe that the allegations are true. We will carefully review any evidence presented to us and will take appropriate actions based on that evidence,\u201d the group wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After rising through the ranks of World Vision, Halabi became the manager of World Vision\u2019s activities in the Gaza Strip. \u201cIn that capacity he controlled the budget, equipment and humanitarian aid packages worth tens of millions of dollars,\u201d the Shin Bet said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There he was able to funnel approximately \u201c60 percent of World Vision\u2019s annual budget for the Gaza Strip to Hamas,\u201d according to his testimony, which amounted to approximately $7.2 million every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This was mostly commonly done by Halabi offering fake tenders for work. \u201cThe \u2018winning\u2019 company was aware that 60% of the project\u2019s funds were bound for Hamas,\u201d the Shin Bet said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A<span style=\"color: #000080;\">pproximately 40 percent of World Vision\u2019s funds for civilian projects \u2014 $1.5 million a year \u2014 was also given to Hamas battalions in cash, according to the Shin Bet, along with approximately $4 million a year that was designated for helping the needy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to investigators&#8230;.. [ read more: \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-hamas-stole-tens-of-millions-from-world-vision-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel charges &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span> ]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas Judah Ari Gross World Vision charity denies its Gaza chief diverted 60% of his budget to terror group, which allegedly used the cash to finance weapons, tunnels Over the course of several years, the Hamas terrorist organization siphoned off \u201ctens of millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45220"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45222,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions\/45222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}