Hamas Bagman Caught By Egypt

Hamas continues to try and fund its operations in Gaza globally, but it still takes guys crossing the border with suitcases full of money to distribute to Gazans to buy their support for just a while longer.

Egypt caught one of these bagmen at the border.

Egyptian officials on Thursday detained a senior Hamas official who was carrying nine million dollars and two million euros in cash at the Rafah crossing with Gaza, a security official told AFP.

Border official had held up a six-member delegation on its way back from truce talks in Cairo after insisting that they search their bags.

The officials allowed five members to cross, but detained Gaza-based Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha, who was carrying 10 million dollars and two million euros.

"There are contacts with the finance ministry to decide whether to allow the money in," the official said.

Where did the money come from, who raised it, and for what purposes is the money going to? As I noted, Hamas is likely going to use the money to buy support among Gazans - paying them for damages done to their homes by Hamas' ongoing war with Israel (albeit a fraction of the cost of the damage done to Gaza by Hamas' ruinous thugocracy) and to pay for the influx of weapons and equipment for that war. (HT: NJDhockeyfan at LGF)

Meanwhile, the UN now admits that its prior claims that Israel shelled its UNRWA school were incorrect. They're blaming the mistake on a clerical error. That's not an error; it's a feature of the UNRWA system, where every such instance is automagically attributed to Israel's actions, and not to Hamas, who continues using UNRWA facilities as human shields and Hamas knows that UNRWA will blame Israel for damage done to their facilities, rather than Hamas who initiated the conflict.