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Post by Daniel on Aug 4, 2016 17:21:28 GMT -5
Largest Christian charity infiltrated by Hamas
Leo Hohmann
Mohammed El Halabi, an employee of World Vision, the world’s largest evangelical Christian charity, has been charged in Israel with funneling tens of millions of dollars to the military wing of Hamas, a designated international terrorist organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The arrest was made June 16, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, but a gag order on the case files was lifted Wednesday and Halabi was indicted Thursday. The indictment reveals details of how Hamas infiltrated Federal Way, Washington-based World Vision, a global Christian outreach active in nearly 100 countries.
Halabi, director of World Vision’s Gaza branch, was detained at the Erez crossing in Israel as he was headed back to Gaza on his way home from “routine meetings,” several Israeli news outlets were reporting.
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“World Vision stands by Mohammad who is a widely respected and well-regarded humanitarian, field manager and trusted colleague of over a decade. He has displayed compassionate leadership on behalf of the children and communities of Gaza through difficult and challenging times, and has always worked diligently and professionally in fulfilling his duties.”
But Halabi only used his “humanitarian” mask as cover for his Islamist work, according to the prosecution’s presentation Thursday in Beer Sheva District Court.
The prosecutor described him as a Hamas activist who has been using his high position in the charity to systematically divert millions of dollars to the military arm of Hamas, financing, among other things, the digging of terror tunnels, the Jewish Press reported.
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www.wnd.com/2016/08/largest-christian-charity-infiltrated-by-hamas/
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 4, 2016 17:49:22 GMT -5
Hey Daniel I have something from World Visison I was former donor saying that death to Israel I torn it up I should save it scanned to it prove to my point
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Post by Daniel on Aug 4, 2016 18:14:47 GMT -5
Australia cuts funding to World Vision over Hamas ties
Rachel Kaplan, 04/08/16
Australia has suspended funding to humanitarian NGO World Vision, pending investigations into the nature of its funding to the Hamas terror organization in Gaza.
Israel exposed World Vision's Gaza branch leader Muhammed al-Halabi for funneling 60 percent of his annual humanitarian aid budget into Hamas' military wing. Although al-Halabi has already been arrested, the extent of the damage, both to security and to humanitarian causes, has yet to be assessed.
Israeli legal organization Shurat HaDin says it blew the whistle on World Vision years ago - but no one was listening...
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216012
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Post by Daniel on Aug 4, 2016 18:15:50 GMT -5
Hey Daniel I have something from World Visison I was former donor saying that death to Israel I torn it up I should save it scanned to it prove to my point |
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 5, 2016 13:12:35 GMT -5
I just did it for kindness of my heart I notice they notice in last couple year of my donation that start going to Death to Israel I am not going for that
Like legendary In Living colors kit
Homey don't play that
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Post by Daniel on Aug 8, 2016 16:49:30 GMT -5
World Vision 'Shocked' Its Funds Were Allegedly Given to Hamas Terrorist Group
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter
August 6, 2016
A leading Christian nongovernmental organization says they are alarmed at allegations that one of their employees funneled millions of dollars from their budget to a Palestinian terrorist organization.
In a statement posted on its website Thursday, World Vision – which has been operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories for more than 40 years – said they were "shocked" to learn of charges against Mohammed El Halabi, operations manager of its Gaza branch.
Israeli security officials arrested Halabi on June 15 at the Israeli-Gaza border and held him in state detention for several weeks before formally charging him with providing material support to Hamas on August 4.
An unnamed senior official with Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, told The New York Times that Hamas had recruited Halabi 12 years ago and instructed him to infiltrate the Christian charity. By 2010 Halabi had become the manager of their operations in Gaza and had summarily begun to divert around 60 percent of their annual budget to the terror group. World Vision has said that it sponsors over 4.1 million children around the globe, including approximately 40,000 who live in the West Bank and Gaza strip, the Times reported.
Shin Bet further alleges that Hamas used those embezzled monies to purchase weapons and dig cross-border terror tunnels for the purpose of attacking Israel. Halabi is also accused of starting a dubious "greenhouse project" in order to conceal excavation sites of those terror tunnels.
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In an essay posted at the Lausanne movement last year, Steve Haas, vice president and chief catalyst for World Vision US, said that the American Christian support for Israel "has backed the largest and longest occupation of another people group in modern history, an oppressive Israeli legal system which [Archbishop Desmond] Tutu and many other church leaders have called 'apartheid on steroids." World Vision later distanced themselves from Haas' words.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, an Israeli legal rights institute that represents victims of Palestinian terror attacks, told Religion News Service that her group has been issuing warnings about World Vision's activities for years.
"World Vision has repeatedly denied our charges and refused to seriously investigate where its funds are going. Who knows how many of Hamas' missiles and stabbing attacks were funded by World Vision after they were put on notice that they were financing Palestinian terror," Darshan-Leitner said.
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www.christianpost.com/news/world-vision-shocked-its-funds-were-given-to-terrorist-group-167575/
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Post by Daniel on Aug 8, 2016 17:05:02 GMT -5
World Vision: a Christian charity on an anti-Israel mission
Barry Shaw, 08/08/16
World Vision is a Christian charity on an anti-Israel mission.
This can clearly be seen in its fraudulently biased website description of Israel and what they call the 'West Bank', properly known as Judea & Samaria.
If the unemployment level of Jerusalem, 'West Bank' and Gaza is 46% and the poverty rate 36%, surely a large proportion of the blame must be directed at the corrupt and violent political overlords, namely the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
But not according to World Vision who point an accusing finger only against the Jewish state. They write that “children experience harassment and violence" from soldiers and "settlers". The lack of adequate educational facilities is not due to Hamas using schools to store rockets or to aim them at Israeli civilians but, according to World Vision, it is due to demolitions. They do not mention which schools, if any, have been demolished by Israel.
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It is strange that they refer to schools and children yet they fail to list Israel or even Palestinian Arab-controlled areas in their long list of locations where they sponsor a child. So does any of their money actually go to Arab children living in Jerusalem, Gaza or Judea & Samaria? The jury is still out.
We now know, due to recent revelations coming out of Israel, that World Vision has been funding the military wing of Hamas, known to most of the world as the Hamas terrorist organization, for decades.
Can someone tell me what is Christian about helping Islamic terrorists improve their deadly potential to kill Jews except, perhaps, by them adopting the replacement theology that requires them to side with, and support, any enemy of the Jewish people?
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www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19302
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Post by Daniel on Aug 9, 2016 7:01:44 GMT -5
Ex-Shin Bet chief: World ‘hideously naive’ about widespread diversion of aid to fund Hamas
By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff
August 8, 2016
The alleged funneling of tens of millions of World Vision charity dollars to Hamas for terror purposes is only a tiny example of the massive abuse of aid cash intended for Gaza residents that instead is used to fund Hamas, a senior Knesset member who used to head the Shin Bet intelligence agency said Monday.
The funneling of international aid to finance terror by Hamas and other violent Islamist groups in the Gaza Strip is widespread and the world is hideously naive as regards the scope of the problem, said Avi Dichter, a Likud MK who heads the Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
In an interview with Israel Radio, Dichter said that almost all of the United Nations aid workers in Gaza are members of Hamas, the terror group that seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction and has fought three wars against Israel in recent years.
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www.timesofisrael.com/ex-shin-bet-chief-world-hideously-naive-about-widespread-diversion-of-aid-to-fund-hamas/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=baef563348-2016_08_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-baef563348-54476133
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 9, 2016 19:06:46 GMT -5
Of course you shocked I would be if I found out my donation went TO HAMAS LOL!
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Post by Daniel on Aug 11, 2016 19:25:48 GMT -5
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Post by Daniel on Aug 17, 2016 17:20:25 GMT -5
World Vision Funding Hamas Charges Not Adding Up, Israel Source Says
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter
August 17, 2016
Accusations that a World Vision employee in Gaza funneled millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas makes no sense, according to a non-governmental organization staffer who spoke to The Christian Post on condition of anonymity.
"I don't want to say that everything went right, that [Halabi] is clean, I can't possibly claim that," the source, who is based in Israel and familiar with the inner workings of humanitarian aid groups in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, said. He added that it's hard to believe the World Vision employee in Gaza steered 60 percent of World Vision's budgetary resources to Hamas given the extensive accounting practices NGOs must abide by to operate in the region.
On any given day, nonprofit organizations as large as World Vision are closely monitoring their financials and could easily see if that much money was being misappropriated, the source claims.
Mohammed el Halabi, operations manager of World Vision's Gaza branch, was charged by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security services, on Aug. 4 with providing material support to the terror group in the range of tens of millions of dollars over the course of several years, allegedly from World Vision's budget.
Such allegations have led World Vision International to suspend its operations in Gaza and some major donors, such as Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, withholding their support until a thorough investigation is completed.
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www.christianpost.com/news/world-vision-funding-hamas-charges-not-adding-up-israel-source-says-168053/
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Post by Daniel on Aug 27, 2016 9:23:37 GMT -5
Israel: We informed countries about aid funds going to Hamas
Elad Benari 26/08/16
Israel's Foreign Ministry on Friday rejected claims by foreign governments that it had failed to respond to their request for information regarding the alleged transfer of international aid funds to Hamas in Gaza.
Recently, it was revealed that World Vision, a multi-billion dollar Christian charity with more than 45,000 employees, unknowingly funded the Hamas terror group in Gaza for roughly a decade after a member of Hamas, Muhammad Halabi, infiltrated World Vision in 2005.
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“The claim that Israel had not updated the donor countries to World Vision and UNDP regarding the background of the arrest of the suspects is incorrect,” the Foreign Ministry said on Friday afternoon.
“Since the indictments against UNDP and World vision personnel on their involvement in Hamas terror activities, relevant information has been conveyed, through various channels, to the countries involved in the humanitarian activity,” it stressed.
“The Foreign Ministry will continue coordinating the transfer of information.”
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216996
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Post by Daniel on Sept 11, 2016 8:24:20 GMT -5
World Vision cuts jobs and halts projects in Gaza
Ben Ariel, 11/09/16
World Vision has cancelled the contracts of 120 Palestinian Arab employees in Gaza amid Israeli allegations that the NGO’s Gaza director had diverted millions to Hamas, AFP reports.
A World Vision staffer who declined to be identified, told the news agency, “They informed 120 employees from World Vision in Gaza they were officially cancelling their contracts and stopping all their projects in the enclave.”
“The head of the NGO in Palestine and a number of foreign staff met on August 9 with Palestinian employees in the Gaza office and gave them documents to sign which they did,” he added.
AFP saw a copy of the document which said World Vision “is facing a major crisis that has affected the international NGO, including the source of its funding, and due to this crisis all our activities have been suspended in Gaza”.
Senior employees would be kept on partial salaries, the World Vision source said.
The employee said World Vision promised to take back the staff once the crisis was resolved.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217599
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Post by sevenofnine on Sept 11, 2016 18:38:48 GMT -5
Yeah I blab to people who still donate to World vision big time I blab to my FB little friends and also my aunt who was World vision donor too
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Post by Daniel on Jul 30, 2018 6:56:17 GMT -5
World Vision Responds to Claim It Helped Obama Admin Fund al-Qaeda Affiliate
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter | Jul 26, 2018
The international Christian humanitarian organization World Vision has released a statement in response to the recent news that the Obama administration gave it money to help fund an al-Qaeda affiliate.
The National Review published a story on Wednesday that the Obama administration approved $200,000 in grant money to the Sudan-based Islamic Relief Agency, with World Vision as intermediary, even though the organization was listed as a terrorist affiliate in 2004.
"Despite this well-documented history, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in July 2014 awarded $723,405 to World Vision Inc., an international evangelical charity, to 'improve water, sanitation and hygiene and to increase food security in Sudan's Blue Nile state.' Of these funds, $200,000 was to be directed to a sub-grantee: ISRA," reported the publication.
"Obama-administration officials knowingly approved the transfer of taxpayer dollars to an al-Qaeda affiliate, and not an obscure one but an enormous international network that was often in the headlines."
In a Wednesday statement, the London-based World Vision explained that they were unaware of the terrorist designation for the group and that they took action once they were made aware of it.
"There are several Islamic Relief organisations operating around the world which are not blocked, and when we searched the blocked parties lists for 'Islamic Relief' in 'Sudan,' the searches produced no results," stated World Vision.
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Post by Daniel on Nov 28, 2018 10:27:51 GMT -5
World Vision, Come Clean - A Rebuttal
Sam Westrop and Clifford Smith
November 26, 2018
Writing in the Christian Post on November 3, we revealed the full extent of the role played by the international evangelical charity World Vision in a 2015 decision by the Obama administration to approve the transfer of $115,000 of taxpayers’ money to a designated terror financing charity, the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA). This article itself followed a July 2018 report we wrote in National Review first uncovering the scandal, which was covered by media all around the world.
We had high hopes that, once the facts were out in public, World Vision would apologize, accept the evidence we presented, explain the unfortunate circumstances surrounding these events, and seek to correct course to ensure such things didn’t happen again. That would be an appropriate and laudable response by a taxpayer-funded charity upon finding it had transferred funds to a designated terror-financing organization closely linked with Osama Bin Laden.
World Vision’s July 2018 response to the ISRA scandal was misleading. And now, unfortunately, in their response to our November 3 article, World Vision has doubled down.
World Vision declares it “outrageous” that we made the “false and unfair claim” that it “knowingly supported an organization linked to terrorism.”
The problem with this is that we never made any such claim. Instead, our article demonstrated the steps that World Vision could have taken – employing simple due diligence to identify ISRA’s terrorist status before choosing it as a partner for a taxpayer-funded project. Had World Vision, for example, typed the name of ISRA into the Treasury Department’s Sanctioned List, or conducted a simple Google search, red flags would have been immediately raised.
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