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Source: Hamas Facing Cash Crunch, Struggling to Pay Fighters | Newsmax.com
据《华尔街日报》报道，以色列再次对加沙发动攻势，哈马斯面临资金短缺，难以筹集资金支付其武装人员的军饷。 阿拉伯、以色列和西方官员告诉该媒体，上个月，以色列停止向该地区运送人道主义物资，其中一些物资哈马斯一直在占用并出售以筹集资金。 据阿拉伯情报部门称，重启军事行动损害了哈马斯向其普通成员发放现金的能力，因为该组织许多负责此类付款的官员已被杀害或躲藏起来。 以色列国防军最近表示，他们击毙了哈马斯的多名高级政治官员，以及一名在该武装组织金融运作中发挥关键作用的货币兑换商。 因此，哈马斯的偿债能力日益下降。 加沙经济开源研究员埃亚尔·奥费尔告诉《华尔街日报》，“即使他们坐拥大量现金，目前分配这些现金的能力也非常有限。”奥费尔表示，哈马斯通常会派信使送现金，或者设立付款区。他指出，这两种情况都可能“引起”以色列军队的注意。 《华尔街日报》采访的情报官员表示，许多加沙政府雇员尚未收到工资，许多哈马斯高级政治工作人员和战斗人员的工资在3月中旬被减半，而当时正值穆斯林的斋月。 官员们表示，哈马斯战斗人员的平均月薪在200至300美元之间。 西方和阿拉伯官员向《华尔街日报》透露，战争爆发前，哈马斯每月从卡塔尔获得 1500 万美元的现金注入，还从西非、南亚和英国筹集资金，其 5 亿美元储备金中的大部分都存放在土耳其。
Amid a renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza, Hamas is facing a cash crunch and is struggling to come up with the funds to pay its fighters, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Last month, Israel halted the delivery of humanitarian goods to the territory, some of which Hamas had been commandeering and selling to raise money, Arab, Israeli, and Western officials told the outlet.
According to Arab intelligence, the revived military campaign has damaged Hamas’ ability to distribute cash to its rank and file because many of the group’s officials who handled such payments have been killed or gone into hiding.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recently said they killed a number of Hamas’ senior political officials, as well as a money changer who played a key role in the militant group’s financial operations.
As a result, Hamas has become increasingly insolvent.
“Even if they sit on large amounts of cash, their ability to distribute it would be very limited right now,” Eyal Ofer, an open-source researcher on Gaza’s economy, told the Journal.
Usually, Hamas would either have a courier deliver cash or would set up a payment disbursement area, Ofer said, pointing out that either scenario could “grab attention” from Israeli troops.
Intelligence officials the Journal spoke with said many Gaza government employees have not received their salary payments and many senior Hamas political staff and fighters had their pay cut in half in mid-March, which, for Muslims, was the holy month of Ramadan.
The average monthly pay for a Hamas fighter had ranged from $200 to $300 per month, the officials said.
Before the war, Hamas had reportedly received monthly cash infusions of $15 million from Qatar and also raised money from western Africa, South Asia, and the United Kingdom, with much of its $500 million reserve squirreled away in Turkey, Western and Arab officials told the Journal.
