| by Amir Tadros

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Terrorism and organized violence are “crucially reliant on adequate sources of funding.” 

What is less well understood is how the fundraising environment itself can be deliberately engineered. That is, how a non-state actor (with or without the support of a state actor) can construct, amplify, and sustain the conditions that activate donor networks, legitimize sham charitable infrastructure, and embed financial flows within humanitarian frameworks that Western economic warfare tools are structurally ill-equipped to reach. This paper examines precisely that phenomenon: Hamas’s operationalization of narrative warfare as the primary engine of its raise phase during and after the Gaza conflict that followed October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.

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