Hamas caught on video stealing dozens of humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza Strip

Hamas terrorists were captured on video taking control of 47 of 100 aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.“It’s no secret that Hamas takes control of humanitarian aid.We’ve already published here tapes of Hamas, in which you hear them say themselves they have no more room in their warehouses,” Channel 12‘s Almog Boker reported on Wednesday evening.“But this evening we also bring special documentation of what it looks like from inside, with cameras that are tracking it in real time,” he said.The footage shows Hamas first taking over the trucks, including attacking the drivers.

Then the trucks are driven through Rafah with armed terrorists riding on them.If any citizen approaches the trucks, they are immediately fired upon, Almog reported.

Gunshots can be heard in the background of the footage.Humanitarian aid, meant to prevent starvation among Gazans, has instead become a lifeline for Hamas and its continued control of the Strip.“Control over humanitarian aid is control over the citizens.Hamas and [its leader Yahya] Sinwar exercise almost absolute control over what happens with humanitarian aid, and this is how they control the population,” Boker reported.He noted the IDF on Tuesday killed a handful of terrorists trying to take control of some aid, but said that the army’s efforts haven’t been enough.In a report in mid-September, Boker noted that Hamas resells the aid to the population to finance recruitment, with 3,000 terrorists having been added to Hamas’s payroll in northern Gaza.The Israeli government is aware of the problem.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the issue at a Sept.

4 press conference, promising that Israel would in time deny the terrorist group of its ability to use the aid for financial gain.He noted that Israel has largely deprived Hamas of cash by taking control of the Rafah border crossing, leaving Hamas with humanitarian aid as its only money source.“They don’t have [Rafah].So we’r...