THE PRESENCE OF NON-PALESTINIANS AMONG THE TERRORISTS ATTACKING ISRAEL ADDS AN ADDITIONAL DIMENSION TO FUTURE TERRORIST FINANCING INVESTIGATIONS

Hamas terrorist with hostage

Alert observers inside Israel are reporting that a significant number of the terrorists have been seen, and photographed, committing war crimes inside Israel are NOT Palestinians. Their complexions, marking them as Africans, indicate that Hamas, and/or its sponsors and terrorist financiers, has recruited from outside the Palestinian Territories. This opens up an entirely new avenue for investigation,  as foreign fighters they would have been paid handsomely, transported to Gaza, trained, and ordered to attack civilian targets, and take hostages. Financial records of such payments may provide valuable clues, allowing investigators to trace funding back to the point of origin.   

Foreign fighters, most likely mercenaries, possibly from either Libya or Chad, and armed with specific intelligence of the residence addresses of off-duty IDF soldiers, particularly women, have taken a large number of hostages, committed sexual assault, and taken them to Gaza. Should any of these foreign mercenaries survive the expected upcoming IDF ground attack upon Gaza, their debriefing may supply clues about who or what supplied the funding for their service on behalf of Hamas.Whether national, tribal or regional leaders facilitated their availability will also certainly be a subject of inquiry when the dust settles on Gaza. 

Initial payments to engage them, which would have been made in their country of origin, should be able to be tracked back. Iran's present lack of US Dollars in quantities sufficient to support Hamas would seem to rule it out as the source of funds. Was Qatar's funding of government employees diverted to finance this operation? We cannot say, but Western intelligence agencies will most likely earmark significant resources to determining who provided funding for this obviously extensively-planned terrorist operation.