Hamas spies drew up creepy dossiers on aid workers in Gaza, including noting one woman who “leaves her house in exposed clothing” and a person having an “immoral relationship with a female.”
Internal Hamas documents captured by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the most recent war and dated between 2018 and 2022, show how the terrorist regime exerted their control over aid workers who were helping their population.
Charities appoint local Gazan “guarantors,” vetted by the Ministry of Interior and National Security as their liaisons because as aid groups can’t engage directly with designated terror groups such as Hamas.
Palestinians carry aid supplies in October 2025. International aid groups doing relief work in Gaza have to work through a “guarantor” appointed by Hamas, to be a liaison to the terror group. REUTERS
Hostages Sharon Avigdori, 52, and Noam Avigdori, 12, being handed over by Hamas militants to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the recent war. Hamas Military Wing/HandoutHamas took copious notes on those guarantors including writing how one woman “leaves her house in exposed clothing that transgresses sharia law.”
Another guarantor was “morally suspicious due to obtained information against him, from close people, about his immoral relationship with a female employee.”
A third guarantor was described as hating “the Hamas movement” while another’s “religious observance is low,” according to a report on the captured documents compiled by NGO Monitor.
Aid trucks delivering food to Gaza in November this year. Local Gaza monitors working with some of the world’s biggest aid groups analyzed their finances to make sure that they were not critical of Hamas, according to recently declassified documents. APIn total Hamas made dossiers on 55 guarantors working with 48 international groups. They scoured guarantors’ social media accounts, writing one woman “does not have hostile activity on Facebook.”
They were also suspicious of rivals groups, moaning that the guarantor for Catholic Relief Services, a sprawling charity that works in 100 countries and rakes in more than $1.5 billion in donations, was “affiliated with the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] (PFLP)”– which is designated as a terrorist organization by the US, EU, and Canada, the report says.
In contrast, a guarantor working with Doctors Without Borders France was described as being “religiously observant.” They also documented a money transfer he’d received of $697.
Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis in an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. An IDF soldier is pictured in the aftermath. ZUMAPRESS.comHamas also made sure to put the international relief groups under “constant technological surveillance,” the report says.
It also concludes international organizations which work in the area do not operate independently. “Rather, they are embedded in an institutionalized framework of coercion, intimidation and surveillance that services Hamas’ terror objectives,” the report states.
Part of their vetting included analyzing the financials of the foreign nonprofits that want to work in Gaza. In one instance, Hamas took issue with Save the Children, an organization working more than 100 countries with a $1.5 billion budget.
UN vehicles on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing Point in the Gaza Strip. Getty ImagesIn 2019, Hamas’s security chiefs said that Save the Children “does not yield” to financial inspections, and should be subject to “restrictions…on its programs and projects until attaining cooperation with the Ministry of Interior.”
The IDF captured documents are from the Gaza Security Mechanism, part of Hamas’s Interior Ministry which oversees the terrorist group’s law enforcement in the territory.
Hamas has previously been exposed for its control of one aid group in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Israel maintains that at least 12 UNRWA employees participated in the October 7, 2023 attacks which left 1,200 Israelis dead.
