The IDF said on Sunday that it killed Hussein Qadra and Muhammad Farah in a strike in southern Gaza last week. The two were described as operatives in a Hamas cash-transfer network that moved money into the Strip for the group.
According to the military, Qadra headed the network and Farah worked with him in a financial mechanism run under Hamas leadership and supplying the organization’s military wing. The IDF said they, together with other operatives, helped transfer more than 500 million shekels to the military wing through a system of dozens of couriers and money changers operating in Turkey and the Gaza Strip.
Israeli security officials believe the money was used to sustain Hamas’s military activity, including paying salaries to fighters and funding attacks against IDF forces and Israeli civilians. The IDF also said the financing activity continued recently, and that it was carried out in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
The military said Southern Command forces remain deployed in the area in line with the agreement, and will continue operating to remove security threats and strike terrorist infrastructure in Gaza.
