{"id":2216771,"date":"2024-04-09T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-funneled-nearly-1-million-to-hamas-linked-charity-that-hosted-terror-leaders-son-report-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:51:47","slug":"u-s-funneled-nearly-1-million-to-hamas-linked-charity-that-hosted-terror-leaders-son-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-funneled-nearly-1-million-to-hamas-linked-charity-that-hosted-terror-leaders-son-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals US sent close to $1 million to charity tied to Hamas, who hosted son of terror leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-funneled-nearly-1-million-to-hamas-linked-charity-that-hosted-terror-leaders-son-report-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2216771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States Agency for International Development \u2063(USAID) allocated almost \u200c$1 million to a Gaza charity associated with the son of\u2063 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-joins-states-banning-zuckbucks-but-will-that-be-enough-to-stop-dems-private-election-takeover\/\" title=\"Louisiana bans 'Zuckbucks' to halt Dems' private election control. Will it suffice?\">funding raised concerns<\/a>\u2064 as the charity has ties\u200d to Hamas, and the grant was given days before a Hamas attack on Israel. USAID is under scrutiny for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-shreds-jake-tapper-for-his-anti-israel-narrative\/\" title=\"Mark Levin slams Jake Tapper's biased stance against Israel\">funding organizations linked<\/a> to terrorism. The allocation of nearly $1 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to a \u200bGaza charity connected\u2062 to the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has sparked concerns due to its ties to \u2063Hamas. The grant \u2062was awarded shortly before a Hamas attack on Israel, prompting scrutiny of USAID&#8217;s funding practices regarding organizations with terrorism affiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The United States Agency for International Development funneled nearly $1 million &#8220;to a terror charity in Gaza involved with the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh,&#8221; according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>USAID gave more than $900,000 in taxpayer funds to the Bayader Association for Environment and Development, a humanitarian group based in the Gaza Strip that is said to be &#8220;in close cooperation with [the] Hamas regime,&#8221; according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/islamism.news\/research\/investigations\/usaid-hands-almost-1-million-to-hamas-charity-in-gaza-linked-to-son-of-terror-leader-ismail-haniyeh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by the Middle East Forum\u2019s Focus on Western Islamism project. The United States awarded the most recent grant on Oct. 1, six days before Hamas launched a terror attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bayader is listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/search\/?hash=ab4e532e8ab1f598651a1318c9644772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifail-politifact-confuses-two-government-agencies-in-embarrassing-fact-check\/\" title=\"PolitiFAIL: PolitiFact Confuses Two Government Agencies in Embarrassing \u201cFact Check\u201d\">federal spending data<\/a><\/a> as a sub-grantee for USAID, with the government monies first routed through a sponsoring U.S. nonprofit, which are ostensibly required to vet their sub-grantees,&#8221; according to the report. In February 2023, Bayader reportedly organized an event in the Gaza Strip that included &#8220;senior Hamas officials,&#8221; such as Abdul Salam Haniyeh, the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East Forum\u2019s findings are certain to increase pressure on the Biden administration as it works to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mothers-of-israeli-soldiers-press-biden-to-halt-us-aid-to-gaza\/\" title=\"Israeli soldiers' mothers urge Biden to stop US aid to Gaza\">pump humanitarian aid<\/a> into the war-torn Gaza Strip, where humanitarian groups linked to Hamas are operating. This includes the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a recipient of U.S. aid that is now known to employ individuals who participated in Hamas\u2019s attack. Israel estimates that around 10 percent of UNRWA\u2019s workforce maintains ties to the Iran-backed terror group.<\/p>\n<p>USAID did not immediately respond to a <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon <\/em>request for comment. The aid agency has come under Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/2865305\/usaid-watchdog-tax-dollars-terrorism-tied-ngo-biden-sent-more-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressure<\/a> in Congress for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-of-expression-foggy-bottom-stands-by-10k-grant-to-queer-film-fest\/\" title=\"\u2018Freedom of Expression\u2019: Foggy Bottom Stands by K Grant to Queer Film Fest\">awarding taxpayer funds<\/a> to groups with alleged ties to terrorism. USAID\u2019s inspector general is\u00a0reportedly investigating\u00a0claims that at least $110,000 in funds were sent to a charity tied to Pakistani militant groups.<\/p>\n<p>During the February 2023 event <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/HHwz2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> in the report, &#8220;Bayader staff embraced senior Hamas officials, who were there to launch Bayader\u2019s latest project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USAID also has &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USAIDWestBankGaza\/posts\/pfbid0CYTtpaRoS9sjVAvGqNQHujddADWCHjn7KqjxTA7V4L1zr3RayPBxfewBYDHGvFfWl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> Bayader\u2019s work on its own social media, and USAID officials appeared to visit Bayader\u2019s offices, where one senior USAID official, Jonathan Kamin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bayader.Khanyounis\/posts\/pfbid0Vjt3Qn4a5Gm9GJ519Zvst5HWyxf7knDDmxHADPdfK4eHG5xb9caEgm6FZ1DcJGzvl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received an award<\/a> from the terror-linked charity,&#8221; the Middle East Forum found.<\/p>\n<p>The charity operates &#8220;in close cooperation with Hamas regime,&#8221; according to its own Arabic language 2021 annual <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231010044600\/http:\/bayader.ps\/uploads\/documents\/55e4ad3f5b5f3d77c7a144d3e5d6d501.pdf#page=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> translated by the Middle East Forum. The report also cited &#8220;coordination&#8221; and &#8220;meetings&#8221; with Hamas\u2019s ministry of social affairs and ministry of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bayader officials,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;are also regularly seen in the company of other Hamas terror politicians.&#8221; And the charity\u2019s employees have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0hpgGWwoM2aMU6EuRsvYEX9gscUgFoPnnfF1zg4rsG5LxTHAThiSRU8ihLhsLFi49l&#038;id=100002050074741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> known terrorists on social media, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The charity receives funding from the United Kingdom, Japan, Belgium, Sweden, and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Westrop, director of the Middle East Forum\u2019s Islamist Watch project and the report\u2019s lead author, said USAID could have discovered Bayader\u2019s links to Hamas by performing &#8220;the most cursory of searches.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most cursory of searches would have uncovered Bayader\u2019s Hamas links and its officials\u2019 open support for terror. Surely someone is deliberately looking the other way,&#8221; Westrop told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Charitable revenue is a major contributor to Hamas\u2019s income, estimated to be at least half a billion dollars each year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How is it, a decade after then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan made it clear that when you help terrorists build homes, you are helping terrorists build bombs, the federal government is still helping terrorists build homes?&#8221; Westrop said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report, the United States Agency for International Development channeled almost $1 million to a Gaza charity linked to the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. 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