Hamas Requested $500 Million from Iran to Destroy Israel

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has made a dramatic revelation, disclosing for the first time that Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar requested $500 million from Iran to finance their plan to destroy Israel and attack the United States.

The explosive information was recovered from Hamas tunnels in Gaza by the IDF’s elite Intelligence and Technological Systems Unit (AMASHT), a wartime reserve unit composed of top civilian experts. During a visit to the unit, Katz was briefed on the analysis of the materials, which include Hamas archives, Hezbollah documents, and highly sensitive intelligence.

“Today I am presenting, for the first time, a transcript of conversations found in the tunnels of senior Hamas officials in Gaza, which proves a direct connection between Iran and Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif,” Katz said. “Deif and Sinwar demanded $500 million from the Quds Force commander to support the annihilation of Israel and the fight against the U.S. and they got it.”

The communications show the funding request was directed to Hassan Izadi, head of the Quds Force’s Palestinian Affairs Branch. Despite Iran’s struggling economy, Izadi reportedly agreed to the payment, declaring that funding Hamas and targeting Israel and the United States remains Tehran’s highest priority.

“This is definitive proof of Iran’s support for Hamas’s plan to destroy Israel and for the October 7 massacre,” Katz emphasized.

Katz reiterated Israel’s strategic goal of dismantling Iran’s terror network. “Iran is the head of the snake. Despite all its denials, it continues to finance and promote terrorism across all fronts from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria to Judea and Samaria, and now even with the Houthis in Yemen.”

“Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and will continue to strike at its proxies until the Iranian axis of evil is dismantled and defeated,” Katz concluded.

This revelation underscores the direct role Iran plays in fueling terror throughout the region and reinforces Israel’s insistence on targeting the regime’s military tentacles from Gaza to Yemen.

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