Israel’s Defense Minister revealed a document found in Hamas tunnels in which the Hamas organization requested $500 million from the Iranian regime for the complete destruction of Israel. At the time, a commander from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) agreed to the request.
Israel Katz, Israel’s Minister of Defense, disclosed the existence of an intelligence document showing that the leaders of Hamas, Yahya Al-Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, had sent a letter in June 2021 to Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, requesting financial support to carry out a plan to attack Israel—a plan that was eventually carried out on October 7, 2023.
According to Katz, this document proves the direct connection between Iran and Yahya Al-Sinwar and Mohammed Deif and shows how Iran supported Hamas’s plan to destroy Israel.
He added that the document requests the Quds Force commander of the IRGC to provide $500 million to implement the plan to destroy Israel.
According to the contents of the document, Hamas requested $20 million per month from Iran for two years to accomplish “major goals” that, in the words of the letter’s authors, would “change the face of the world.”
One part of the letter reads: “We are confident that by the end of these two years, or during them, God willing, we will uproot this monstrous entity and end this dark chapter in our nation’s history.”
Katz also stated that Saeed Izadi, head of the Palestine division in the Quds Force, agreed to the request and replied that despite Iran’s difficult economic situation and the struggles of its own people, the Iranian regime would continue to fund Hamas because fighting Israel and the United States is its top priority.
The Israeli Defense Minister further emphasized that the conclusion is clear: Iran is the head of the snake, and despite repeated denials, is financing and advancing terrorism in all regions—from Gaza to Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank, and now alongside the Houthis in Yemen—all with the aim of destroying Israel.
Katz added that Israel will do everything it can to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons and will continue striking the regime’s proxy forces in the region until this Iranian axis of evil is ultimately suppressed and destroyed.
