Gaza Aid Funds: Official Says Donations to Hamas Never Reached Gaza

The money is here. We have a problem. There are 25 million dollars and no one knows where they went.

They didn't go to Gaza. They didn't reach those entitled.

Even when you ask in Gaza, uh, or—I actually tried to look into it before the start of this episode.

First, the Monetary Authority can't let such a large amount as this pass without thoroughly examining and auditing the matter, and you know that.

Okay, no financial institutions in Gaza, there are no banks.

How could it have reached the people entitled to it when it's such a large amount?

No, if it—if it were just about 25 million dollars, maybe it would be a little easier.

I'm talking about, for example, Mauritania.

I know there are hundreds of millions of dollars raised elsewhere.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were raised from countries all over the world, especially Arab and Muslim countries.

Not a single penny of it went into Gaza, and I assure you of that.

Not a single penny of the hundreds of millions in aid raised went in, I mean the financial aid, sent to, to, to Gaza, and to— to, to, to the— the Palestinian— Bank of Palestine, or to the Monetary Authority?

None of these figures went to the Gaza Strip.

Who does it go to, Dr. Mahmoud? First, I'm speaking here with, uh, someone who knows the facts, because I chair the Presidential Committee for Supervising Aid personally, so I'm familiar with all the details of what may come to Palestine as aid that is— directed to the Gaza Strip.

What comes to the Palestinian— to Palestinian embassies or through Palestinian embassies or through the Palestinian Red Crescent or the Egyptian Red Crescent or the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization, we monitor it and know what— what came in and how it entered, how it was brought into the Gaza Strip and how it was distributed,

as well as what comes to the official Palestinian bodies.

So, I mean, uh, allow me to take this opportunity On your screen. Quickly, Doctor.

As always, allow me to make an appeal to all the people of our Arab and Islamic nation and all of goodwill, not to deal with any partisan group or faction, whether Hamas or otherwise.

No factional group is authorized to collect donations or oversee donations being collected for the Gaza Strip.

There are legitimate official bodies under oversight and with transparency.

They are the ones overseeing this. And so—w-w-w-w, uh, all this— all this money and the millions that were collected and disappeared, evaporated, because the fundraising is done through partisan bodies, factional bodies.

A question, Doctor. A question, Dr. Mahmoud.

Directly and clearly. Are you accusing Hamas or figures in Hamas of— being the ones who stole this aid money?

I am saying this clearly: Money was collected through Hamas, Hamas representatives and Hamas leaders, and through Arab and Islamic organizations, and handed over to Hamas.

It didn't reach Gaza.