{"id":504486,"date":"2026-06-21T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:17:12","slug":"idf-kills-hamas-moneymen-who-funneled-170m-to-military-wing-in-gaza-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504486\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF kills Hamas moneymen who funneled $170M to &#8216;military wing&#8217; in Gaza airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces killed two Hamas-linked terrorists in Gaza last week who helped funnel more than 500 million shekels (about $170 million) to the group\u2019s \u201cmilitary wing,\u201d the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Qadra, who headed a Hamas-run financial network, and Mohammed Farra, an operative tied to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, were killed in a targeted strike on June 17, said the IDF.<\/p>\n<p>The network used couriers and money changers in Turkey and Gaza to transfer funds, according to the army.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39743533\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/palestinians-civil-defense-personnel-gather-131406440.jpg\" alt=\"Destroyed vehicle in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike, with onlookers in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39743533\"  \/>Palestinians gather around a destroyed vehicle that was targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on June 18, 2026. Belal Osama\/APAImages\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53523238;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39743540\" width=\"906\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-ceasefire-place-gaza-since-131422587.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hands to her face cries out, while another woman holds a phone to her face, during a funeral for a man killed in an Israeli airstrike.\" class=\"wp-image-39743540\"  \/>Palestinian women mourn the death of a man killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on June 18, 2026 AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The funds were used in recent months to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/11\/hamas-palestinian-terrorists-raised-nearly-100m-in-crypto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay terrorists and finance attacks<\/a> against Israeli troops and civilians, the IDF said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIDF troops under Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>The current truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/10\/world-news\/israeli-forces-start-pulling-back-from-parts-of-gaza-under-ceasefire-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pausing the war<\/a> that began when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and Gazan civilians invaded the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem says any long-term agreement must include the disarmament of Hamas, its removal from power in Gaza and its exclusion from governing the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli forces killed two Hamas-linked terrorists in Gaza last week who helped funnel more than 500 million shekels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23024,69,51,85,46,66627,43,98,126],"class_list":["post-504486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airstrikes","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-defense-forces","tag-news","tag-terrorism","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}