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Israel charges World Vision Gaza branch manager with funneling funds to Hamas

Aug 5, 2016 1:01 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Israel has charged the Palestinian manager of the Gaza branch of World Vision with “infiltrating the charity on behalf of Hamas and funneling about $43 million in the group’s funds over the past six years to the military wing of the Islamist militant group.”

World Vision denies having any prior knowledge of the alleged activities of Mohammad El Halabi, and there is no reason to suspect otherwise; however, it is critical to understand that jihadist organizations are notorious for using the cover of charity to fund their murderous aspirations against Israel and, in fact, all infidels.

Many such charities with an expansive global reach in fact are founded for the specific purpose of financing terror, such as: “the Benevolence International Foundation (al Qaeda), the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (Hamas) and the Islamic Committee for Palestine (Palestinian Islamic Jihad).” Also to be noted is the extensive list of “unindicted co-conspirators” who often run so-called charities.

Almsgiving, zakat, is one of the five pillars of Islam, and the rules governing to whom zakat may be given include a jihad-by-the-sword category of “those fighting for Allah”; Islamic texts are invoked in accordance with the Sharia mandate of zakat as a duty.

According to Shariah Finance Watch: “All too often, the destinations of zakat payments are to Jihadists, simply because Shariah mandates it.  Maybe that is why so many Islamic charities have been implicated in terrorism financing.”

World Vision Gaza

“Israel Charges Aid Group’s Gaza Branch Manager With Funneling Funds to Hamas,” by Isabel Kershner and Diaa Hadid, New York Times, August 4, 2016:

ASHKELON, Israel — The Palestinian manager of the Gaza branch of World Vision, a major Christian aid organization, was charged by Israeli prosecutors on Thursday with infiltrating the charity on behalf of Hamas and funneling about $43 million in the group’s funds over the past six years to the military wing of the Islamist militant group.

While neither the World Vision employee, Mohammad El Halabi, nor the aid group have had a chance to review the evidence and respond to specific charges, the allegations have cast a cloud over nongovernmental organizations in Gaza.

By Thursday evening in Jerusalem, the Australian government announced the suspension of funding to World Vision’s projects in the Palestinian territories. Describing the allegations as “deeply troubling,” Dave Sharma, the Australian ambassador to Israel, announced the suspension in a statement on Twitter, pending the outcome of an investigation by Australia’s foreign affairs department.

Mr. Halabi was arrested on June 15 at the Erez crossing point between Israel and Gaza, the territory controlled by Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union.

A senior official with Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his agency’s rules, said that Mr. Halabi was recruited by the military wing of Hamas in 2004 and was instructed to infiltrate World Vision and to attempt to reach an influential position.

Briefing reporters on Thursday in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, the official said that Mr. Halabi became the manager of the Gaza branch of World Vision in 2010, and had subsequently transferred about 60 percent of World Vision’s annual budget for Gaza to Hamas.

The official said that some of the money had been used by Hamas militants to dig cross-border tunnels for the purpose of carrying out attacks in Israeli territory. Donations were also used to build a Hamas military base, and 2,500 food packages meant for needy families in Gaza were transferred to Hamas battalions, the official added.

In addition, Mr. Halabi is accused of initiating a greenhouse project designed to hide tunnel work. A project for the rehabilitation of fishermen was, in practice, used to provide motorboats and diving suits for Hamas’s military marine unit, the Israeli authorities said. The allegations could not be independently verified.

The Shin Bet official said that officers raided the organization’s offices in East Jerusalem, and emphasized there was no evidence from the investigation and interrogation of Mr. Halabi that World Vision had been aware of the misuse of its funds in Gaza….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hamas, Israel Tagged With: Dave Sharma, gaza, Islamic charities, Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision, zakat


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  1. cs says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    Way to go, put all them in jail, locked up, watching the sky through the bars.

  2. Mong says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    I think we in the west are going to have to accept that Islam is taking over. I’ve tried to make people do something about but they just won’t. Our politicians will never accept the problem and will continue to silence those who speak out. When we’re nice, we lose, and when we’re not nice, we lose. For some reason, those in power in the west have decided that Islam is the future and they’re welcoming Muslims, hiding their crimes and penalising anyone who opposes this obvious islamisation. It’s creeping slowly but surely and we’re too nice and too manipulated to prevent it. We must accept what is happening and accept our children’s future will be under Sharia. Our politicians have accepted it so we should too. That is, unless you want to do something about it.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 5, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      Wrong Mong

      Mong says,
      “We must accept what is happening and accept our children’s future will be under Sharia. Our politicians have accepted it so we should too.”
      —————–

      Even Throughout Leftist EU People are rising up against the nasty filth known as Islam.
      BBC is in a confused panic over this increase in “Islamophobia”.
      BBC believes the “Islamophobia” came up out of nowhere.
      Whatever could be the cause of (so much Right-Wing Hysteria). they scratch their heads and ponder.

      Muslims are going to have to accept that they will have to behave like decent human beings or be (rightly) reviled as the filth of Muhammad.

      • Mong says

        Aug 6, 2016 at 3:12 am

        Hi Jay Boo,
        I wrote the above as a provocation. I’ll never accept the islamisation of our society, but bit by bit, it’s happening, and because it’s proceeding incrementally, the majority are rolling over, preoccupied with their personal lives etc. I expected a blazing response to such defeatism but just got a few relatively mild responses. Imagine if I’d written it on a left wing site, it might of gained support, humility after colonialism or some garbage. Bottom line, we must do more. We must absolutely reject any concession no matter how small. For example, UK swimming pools are now offering gender segregated sessions in Muslim areas! Public funded swimming pools too. This is something that should not be tolerated. We really must do more because whether you and I like it or not, currently the majority are accepting the steady islamisation of our society. If current trends continue, we can expect our societies to be 90% sharia complient within a decade or so. Let’s not allow this and let’s prevent it by all means. All the best.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 5, 2016 at 11:11 pm

      Don’t give up, Mong–the stakes are too high.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    Somewhat related — The Corrupt Clinton Fund
    No known terrorist inks, though — (not yet, at least)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ts6mhpWJY

    Another video link at
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/obama-secretly-paid-400-mill-ransom-to-iran-that-democrats-called-a-deal-for-taxpayers/comment-page-1#comment-1496178

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:39 pm

    If the Muslim man was a World Vision manager really is guilty of sending funding to Hamas then he should be arrested and charged and have to, to make to, give an account for his heinous actions. Nevertheless ,no matter how must funds and supplies Hamas is fated to fail ,as in lose in the end with it Islamic agenda . The same also applies to other anti-.Israel jihad entities. To explain this in more detail is the following. It should be made known that the Muslim terror organizations Hamas , Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. are all fated to fail in their Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing with Islamic “state.” The reason that they will lose in the end and lose hard is because the members of those jihad terror entities are striving against the Will of God. The members who compose those Islamic terror groups might be too ignorant to know this, nevertheless the truth is the God had given all this land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the West Bank, to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56. Still, in all fairness, there is one way for the Muslim members who make up Hezbollah, Hamas and the P.I.J. to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more. That way is for the members of the jihad origination to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”

  5. Berengaria says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    Everytime I hear the word ( Charity) , I figuratively “Reach For My Gun”. We now know that Catholic Charities, Lutheran , etc. is for funding terrorism against the West. On 9/11 People generously gave money to (RED CROSS) & found out later, the money went to Muslims.(Outreach Programs) code phrase for Terror. Charities Be Damned!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 5, 2016 at 11:14 pm

      It is not charities that are the problem–it is the misuse of charity.

  6. Buraq says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    World Vision ………??? These clowns are blind!

  7. miriamrove says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    jihadist organizations are notorious for using the cover of charity to fund their murderous aspirations against Israel and, in fact, all infidels.

    This statement is very true and well said. m

  8. Angry Aussie says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    Tunnels are very expensive to dig. All that sand in their thobes must drive them insane too.

  9. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    I think I may have glimpsed the headline for this one tonight in the local Arabic language ragsheet out here in Bahrain. One could tell that they could barely contain their glee at the declaration of this as a *Christian* charity organization.

    (Didn’t read anything beyond this–at the moment, I was more morbidly interested in the cognitive dissonance of the “nothing-to-see-here” blurb on the London attack.)

  10. Angemon says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    A senior official with Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his agency’s rules, said that Mr. Halabi was recruited by the military wing of Hamas in 2004 and was instructed to infiltrate World Vision and to attempt to reach an influential position.

    Remember the Holy Land Foundation trial?

    The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.

  11. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    I hope this so called esteemed manager of World Vision gets 20 years in prison. What a greedy son of Satan.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Under Islam “charity” is Zakat–and the main purpose of Zakat is not to fund hospitals and orphanages or to rescue the victims of natural disasters, but to *fund Jihad*.

  13. Concerned says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 3:21 am

    So sad that the freewill gifts of individuals and Governments to WV have been squandered with the aim of killing Jews.

    You should not give up supporting aid agencies but simply choose carefully who you give to in these failed places.

    Australia has suspended payments of $M to WV . Do not be an idiot like that Government which has given freely of Australians taxpayers money to a suspect recipient its Government knew was questionable. .

    But I guess the Aussie government was too taken up expending money with tracking jihadists in Australia then worrying about Australia’s donations to WV. .

  14. Rachel Cohen says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    World Vision–has long been an organization not worthy of any support. In the 1970’s the leadership knowingly allowed the CIA to use them as a conduit for their evil activities–not surprisingly John Hinckley Sr. was involved with World Vision in the 1970’s. Their evil leadership came out in support of Sodomy, then reversed themselves–but that’s still support for anti-Christ, anti human evil. Now they are pro Arab Islamic terror–and anti Israel and anti Jewish–which again is anti God. This is not a Biblically Christian organization. The godless, the foolish and the willingly ignorant support this wicked organization.

    • Rachel Cohen says

      Aug 6, 2016 at 1:35 pm

      World Vision leadership–is evil–this is nothing new with them.

  15. marie says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Australia owes us the tax paying citizen ‘DUE DILIGENCE.
    AUSTRALIAN Government is behaving most ignorant of the Muslim
    terrorist risk in Australia.
    Freedom of speech is eroding in this country due to the bleeding hearts who
    believe muslims are special and most entitled to our social welfare courtesy of
    the hard working Australian.

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