IDF Says It Killed Two Gaza Operatives Involved in Moving More Than Half a Billion Shekels to Hamas

(Photo: IDF Spokesperson)

The IDF Spokesperson said today (Sunday) that in a strike carried out last week in the southern Gaza Strip, two operatives involved in Hamas's money-transfer mechanism were killed. The IDF said the two were Hussein Kadera and Mohammed Fara, who were active in Hamas's military wing and in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization (PIJ), and took part in a system designed to funnel money into the Gaza Strip for the organization's activities.

The two operated within a dedicated infrastructure run by Hamas for transferring funds into Gaza. The IDF Spokesperson said the infrastructure operated under the direction of the organization's leadership, and that significant sums of money were funneled through it for use by Hamas's military wing.

Hussein Kadera served as the head of the infrastructure. Together with Mohammed Fara and other operatives, he was involved in transferring more than half a billion shekels to Hamas's military wing. The IDF emphasized that this activity was carried out through a broad network of dozens of couriers and money changers operating in Turkey and the Gaza Strip, who served as the pipeline for moving the funds.

At the end of the statement, the IDF Spokesperson stressed that "IDF forces under Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to act to remove any threat."