The Hamas-run Gaza Strip received billions of dollars over a decade. Israeli intelligence officials now believe that the money had a role in the success of the October 7 attacks.
For years, Qatar sent millions of dollars a month into Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not only tolerated those payments, he encouraged them.
Allowing the payments to Hamas billions of dollars over roughly a decade was a gamble by Benjamin Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza,
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip money that helped prop up the Hamas government there.