Since 2012, Qatar has positioned itself as Gaza’s saviour while quietly acting as its executioner. The numbers are staggering: $1.8 billion officially transferred to Gaza over 11 years, with a regular flow of $30 million in cash payments delivered every month until the eve of October 7, 2023. Qatari officials claimed these payments were humanitarian—covering 50,000 civil servant salaries, supporting 100,000 impoverished families with $100 stipends, and keeping Gaza’s lone power plant afloat with fuel. But Israeli intelligence reports and Shin Bet assessments paint a different picture: as much as 60% of these funds were siphoned directly into Hamas’s military machine. That means hundreds of millions of dollars in Qatari aid turned into rockets, rifles, drones, and tunnels that later became

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