Israel-Hamas war: how terrorist groups collected cryptocurrencies to finance themselves

2023-10-25 07:20:51

Virtual currencies with very real consequences. The images of October 7 are still in everyone’s mind, with hundreds of armed men who fell like waves on the south of Israel to commit the worst terrorist attack in the history of the Jewish state. How could Hamas, a terrorist organization located in a territory cut off from the world, finance such an operation? He had to avoid financial sanctions and the traditional banking circuit. Suitcases of “cash” mainly fueled this war effort.