At least two US-funded organizations – Mercy Corps and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) – appear to have closely coordinated with a Gaza-based ministry, run by a senior Hamas official identified by the US Treasury Department as previously responsible for part of Hamas’ smuggling operation.
NGO Monitor has repeatedly warned of the dangers of aid diversion by terrorist organizations – including in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen
On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Bisan a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
On June 12, 2024, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s permanent Commission of Inquiry published its newest report detailing Hamas’s brutal attack in Israel on October 7th and Israel’s defensive military response.
On October 12, 2023, UN OCHA-oPt launched the “OPT Flash Appeal,” seeking $294 million “to address the most urgent needs of 1,260,000 people in the Gaza Strip (Gaza) and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, for three months.”
Naftali Balanson analyzes how aid is being diverted in Gaza.
On June 15, 2022, Mohammad el-Halabi was convicted in the Beersheva District Court of diverting funds and materials to Hamas for terror purposes. At the time of his arrest in 2016, El-Halabi was the head of World Vision.
The Be'ersheva District Court's convicted Mohammad El-Halabi for diverting aid money and resources from the international humanitarian organization World Vision to Hamas.
On November 3, 2021, the Israeli Registrar of Non-Profits petitioned the Jerusalem District Court to dissolve an Israeli non-profit organization belonging to the international aid agency, World Vision. As justification for the request and following a multi-year investigation, the Registrar alleges that the local non-profit did not implement humanitarian projects as it claimed to and conducted financial transactions for purposes other than its stated goals – including providing funds to Hamas. Moreover, the Registrar charges that the non-profit’s executive and oversight frameworks were non-functional and ineffective.
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