Hamas still pay salaries and prizes

After almost two years of war, Hamas military capacity is very weakened and its political leadership is in full pressure.

Throughout the war, the Hamas continued to use a secret payment system based on the payment of 30,000 officials to pay $ 7 million (£ 5.3 million).

BBC talked to three officials who have confirmed that they received almost 300 dollars in the last week.

Every 10 weeks is believed to receive more than 20% of the previous wage salary that there are thousands of employees.

Ascending inflation, a portion of the token salary – is rising resentment among the believers.

Serious food deficiencies – The guilt of the restrictions of the Israelites and the fault of acute malnutritions, and a flour in recent weeks cost $ 80.

Without a Banking system of Gaza, receiving salary is also complex and sometimes dangerous. Israel regularly aims and directed by Hamas salary distributors if you want to interrupt the ability to govern the group.

Employees, police to the tax authorities, often receive encrypted messages on their phones or spouses to a certain amount of time to know a friend “tea.”

As for the meeting, the employee approached a man, or occasionally a woman – without a sealed envelope without being handed without hand, without making more interaction without disappearing.

The employee in the Ministry of the Ministry of Hamas, he has not wanted to be his name, described the risks involved in collecting its salaries.

“Every time I go to pick up my salary, I say goodbye to my wife and children. I know I may not return,” he said. “On several occasions, Israeli strikes have striated pay points. I survived what a busy city was busy.

Alaa, the name we changed to protect his identity, is a school that works with the Government of Hamas and a single six family supplier.

I received “1,000 shekel (about $ 300) in worn banknotes.

“After two and a half months of hunger, they pay money.

“I often need to go to expectations to get some flour to feed my children. Sometimes I get a little home, but most of the time I fail.”

In March Israel’s military said Finance in Ismail Barhoum, in a Strike at the Nasser Hospital of Khan Younis. He was accused of focusing money on the military wings of Hamas.

It is not clear how Hamas has managed to continue to finance salary payments, destroying its administrative and financial infrastructure.

A higher employee joined the higher financial operations and the team paid for about $ 700 million in group money and hundreds of millions of spellsild tunnels in southern Israel, destructive military campaign.

These believe that Yahya Sinwar and his brother Mohammed were directly overseed. Both were killed by the forces of Israel.

The Hamas historically understood that the inhabitants imposed imposed imposed imposed for the imposed imposed tasks and taxes, as well as receiving millions of dollars in Qatar.

Qassam Brigade works through a distinguishing thieves of Hamas, especially Iran funded.

An official of the prohibited Muslim Brothers of Egyptian, one of the most important Islamist organizations in the world said about 10% of the budget was also aimed at Hamas.

To create revenue during the war, Hamas also has continued to manage taxes to sell large quantities of retailers and cigarettes in inflated price 100 times original cost. Before the war, a box of 20 cigarettes cost $ 5 – now increased by more than $ 170.

In addition to paying cash, Hamas has distributed food plots to its members and their families through local emergency committees, and leadership is often rotated because of repeated Israelis.

It feeds the public, a great resident of Gaza acquiring support for Hamas for only his supporters and removed from a broader population.

Israel accused of stealing the help entered in Gaza during the fire break this year. Hamas refused. However, the BBC sources of Gaza said that Hamas took important amounts of support during that time.

Nisreen Khaled, who was the widow of three children, after his husband said: “When the hungry worsened, my children were crying sorrow and sacks also seeing our neighbors.

“Aren’t the reasons for our suffering? Why didn’t food, water and medicine secure 7 out of the October Adventure?”