Hamas Financing Report

Launched!

Hello Insight Monitor subscribers, and a warm welcome to the new folks who joined us this week! We appreciate all of you who signed up after the Nazis on Substack drama. Today, we’re releasing a report that we’ve been working on for the last few months on Hamas financing. We’ve pulled together all our analysis and sources into one place. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Hamas financing you’ll find. It greatly expands on the analysis I shared in the RUSI CFCS podcast on the topic.

Hamas Financing Report

Our 30 page Hamas financing report looks how Hamas finances its activities. This includes an in-depth look at historic and current revenue sources, how the group procures weapons and devices for terrorist attacks, the movement mechanisms used by the group (including a section on cryptocurrency), and a detailed analysis of Hamas’s management and storage activities. We also created a visual of Hamas’s financial network to facilitate understanding of the global reach of the group. Finally, we explore how Hamas hides the source, destination, and use of funds.

Part of our value-added in this report is our ability to identify intelligence gaps: basically, what kind of intelligence and information the international community needs in order to detect and disrupt Hamas financing.

We also take a critical look at some mistakes we’ve seen in open-source reporting on the topic, including a glaring error by the Economist. We cast a critical eye on all reporting, making this the most reliable and comprehensive report you’ll find anywhere.

The final section looks at a variety of different options on the table for disrupting Hamas financing, and outlines a strategy for tackling the group with the aim of making sure that they’re never able to orchestrate an attack like October 7th again.

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