Gaza flotilla operated by Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood via shell companies: Israeli FM
Israel’s foreign minister says Hamas financed the Gaza Aid flotilla and that one of the organization’s own activists was an agent of the terrorist group.Gideon Saar levelled the accusations at the global conference countering left-wing terrorism, chaired by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, DC Thursday.Saar claimed that Israel obtained internal Hamas documents that showed the terrorist group was secretly behind the Global Sumud Flotilla and used it as a front for its own murderous agenda.“Hamas documents seized by the IDF indicate financing, operational involvement, and covert ownership of the vessels through a Spanish shell company,” he said.The Muslim Brotherhood, alongside Hamas, funded and directed the flotilla via a shell company, Saar said, according to The Jerusalem Post.He pointed the finger at International Freedom Flotilla Coalition founder Zaher Birawi for allegedly being a Hamas agent.The International Freedom Flotilla Coalition is one of the groups behind the Global Sumud Flotilla, which has repeatedly attempted to sail to Gaza amid Israel’s war with Hamas.Hamas documents signed by former leader Ismail Haniyeh and obtained by the Israeli Defense Forces in 2021 state that Birawi is an agent of the terrorist group, Saar claimed.The US Treasury sanctioned Birawi along with another group he founded, the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad, for being linked with Hamas in January.“Senior Hamas activists are running these campaigns from Britain and other Western capitals,” Saar said.Flotilla activist and alleged sex pest Thiago Avila was also seen attending the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in photos displayed by the foreign minister.Nasrallah was killed in a September 2024 Israeli airstrike after joining Hamas’ brutal Oct.
7 rampage against the Jewish state that killed the most Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.Avila was accused of “sexual misconduct” with at least three volunteers on the fl...