freebeacon.com Hamas ‘formally placed bounties’ on Americans while demanding ‘that any ceasefire deal in Gaza must end GHF’s operations,’ cable states
By Adam Kredo
Hamas has placed active bounties on American aid workers in Gaza and has demanded that the United States cease all humanitarian operations as a ceasefire condition, according to a State Department cable obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Hamas, the State Department disclosed in a June 30 cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, has “formally placed bounties” on U.S. and Palestinian workers with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a joint U.S.-Israeli aid effort formed in February to replace the Hamas-friendly United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The bounties imperil “Palestinian workers and the U.S. security contractors helping to protect the GHF distribution sites,” the cable reads.
The cable, marked “sensitive but unclassified,” confirms a Free Beacon report from June outlining Hamas’s plans to attack American aid distribution centers and pull the United States into direct conflict with Palestinian militant factions. The embassy sent the cable over the State Department’s internal system shortly before Hamas injured two American workers in a Saturday terror attack on a food distribution outpost in Gaza’s Khan Younis neighborhood.
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