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AloeVera

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3. Hamas does not control foreign aid money for infrastructure projects.
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:44 PM
Oct 2023

It goes to the PA. It is closely monitored by Israel to ensure nothing goes to Hamas.

Infrastucture projects are administered by various aid agencies, not Hamas.

I won't deny that corruption may go on with money they collect through taxes on their own people. There is very little accountability from what I read, which is very little so I'm no authority.

What I am saying is that to equate $3 pills allegedly found by Israel on the bodies of "several" Hamas fighters with responsibility for the decades-old water and infrastructure crisis is.. a red herring.

It distracts attention from the real problem.

Captagon is becoming problem for the Middle East. I'm sure you would find it in the pockets of many Arabs and perhaps Israelis as well. Though their problem seems to be fentanyl.

Drugs are a scourge, no matter what side you are on.

You might be surprised to learn Gaza has an anti-narcotics force that monitors all shipments from Egypt and Israel. In February they seized 50,000 captagon pills that came in thru the Israeli crossing. They claim it is part of a deliberate attempt to weaken their society.

Two sides to every story.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newarab.com/news/hamas-seizes-50000-captagon-pills-blaming-israel-source%3famp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/now-worlds-no-1-opioid-consumer-per-capita-israel-faces-addiction-epidemic/amp/



Red Herrings are not helpful AloeVera Oct 2023 #1
Does the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights identify Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #2
Hamas does not control foreign aid money for infrastructure projects. AloeVera Oct 2023 #3
To be clear AloeVera Oct 2023 #4
The money they spend on weapons IS controlled by hamas, wherever it comes from. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #5
It's all the same AloeVera Oct 2023 #6
Whose people and whose land is hamas defending? And to what effect? Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #7
Whoa AloeVera Oct 2023 #8
Your curiosity satisfied (mostly): Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #9
Interesting. So how many doses of that drug are they estimated to have bought in total? RockRaven Oct 2023 #10
Are you suggesting that the legitimacy of this expense Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #11
YOU are the one who said "money for drugs, not for water treatment" so I'm asking you RockRaven Oct 2023 #12
I did indeeed. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #13
Whatever inference or subtext you imagine my words to mean is out of my control. RockRaven Oct 2023 #14
Hamas has a $300,000,000 annual budget Mosby Oct 2023 #15
Both the drugs and the water trerment plants require money to procure. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #16
The water treatment plants that Gaza needs are priced in the hundreds of millions RockRaven Oct 2023 #17
Once again, the monetary value of any transaction you mentioned is immaterial to my post. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #18
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