Several news stories in the past few weeks suggest to me that we are beginning to see the first signs of the end game that will bring about the defeat of Hamas and the establishment of a sane society within the Gaza strip.
First, it appears that Hamas is short of cash, according to a news report from a Saudi newspaper and then re-reported by an Israeli news outlet.
Sources within the terror group revealed that Hamas is struggling to pay salaries — not only to government employees, but also to members of its military wing and staff in other affiliated bodies at all levels.
The sources added that the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, have not paid salaries to terrorists for approximately three months and are facing serious financial difficulties in acquiring essential equipment for their military operations.
One of the things that has propped Hamas up for decades has been its control of foreign aid. The money comes in and Hamas doles it out while keeping large portions for its own use. The distribution of money gives Hamas leverage, while the money it keeps reinforces its power. Under Trump that foreign aid spigot has been largely shut down, and this story suggests we are now seeing the first results of this policy.
Second, Israel is now taking over the direct distribution of humanitarian aid. In the past Hamas maintained its power over its citizens by acting as the go-between of food and medicine. Nothing would go to anyone unless Hamas got its dirty hands on it first. Often no aid at all would reach Gazans. Hamas would keep it all, shipping it underground to its tunnels for use later during siege. Or it would sell that aid on the black market, raising money to fund its terrorist operations.
Israel, in partnership with the United States, is now ending that vile practice.
The Israeli military has set up a news aid distribution network in Gaza aimed at providing direct humanitarian aid to Gaza residents and bypassing the terrorist group Hamas.
Despite Hamas’s threats to target aid workers and disrupt the deliveries, the military has established four distribution centers as part of a U.S.-backed initiative, the Israeli media reported Tuesday. “The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that aid distribution centers had begun handing out humanitarian relief to Gazans,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “Four centers were established in recent weeks, the IDF said, in coordination with a US civil security company and by the directive of the Israeli government.” [emphasis mine]
This new policy began with the arrival of 170 trucks of aid, all of which went directly to Gazans and not to Hamas. Hamas apparently set up checkpoints to try to block Gazans from getting the aid, but those checkpoints were overrun by thousands, many of whom were reported to shout loud curses at Hamas as they did so.
All told, on the first day 8,000 food packages were distributed, equivalent to almost a half million meals.
Not only is this distribution policy neutering Hamas, it is doing so in a manner that allows the citizens of Gaza to interact directly with Israel. Note the picture above. These are Israeli products, handed to Gazans by Israel. The lies of hatred that Hamas has spread for decades against Israel and Judaism will quickly be rejected by Gazans if this direct contact expands.
Both of these stories fit well with a more detailed analysis of Israel’s short and long term military plans in Gaza, posted on May 5, 2025.
The Gazans have had enough, and polls show most want to leave their ravaged coastal strip to start anew elsewhere. They are currently trickling out in a slow but largely unpublicized exodus via Ramon Airport and the Jordanian border. Some are genuine humanitarian cases, but others likely betrayed Hamas, and their ticket out, along with a visa to a foreign nation, is part of the quid pro quo Israel has offered them.
Hamas is hopelessly depleted, entirely cut off from resupply for 19 months now. There is no celebratory gunfire in Gaza, not just because they are losing, but because every bullet is precious. From firing off hundreds of rockets a day, they now manage perhaps one a month or fewer. They are a spent force, entirely outclassed and surrounded.
After describing at length the weak state of Hamas, the author then outlines in great detail, with maps, the expected actions Israel’s military will take to finish off Hamas and take over Gaza completely. I strongly urge you to read what he writes. The main idea is to subdivide Gaza to isolate Hamas from its citizens so that Israel can deal directly with local officials.
The military plan
Israel’s immediate military plan.
Once isolated, Hamas leadership effectively loses control, ceasing to exist as an organization. Israel can make individual deals with division commanders, arranging safe passage to third countries. Those claiming Israel can’t occupy Gaza short- to medium-term ignore history. Israel has held up to 50% of Gaza with minimal troop numbers sustainably.
Once Gaza is partitioned, and the IDF has established bases enabling access to Hamas-free towns, arrangements for Gaza’s long-term governance can begin. Most likely, each city will gain self-governance under a fully demilitarized arrangement, surrounded and bisected by Israeli buffer zones, similar to the West Bank.
It appears the first two stories above are examples of the first stage of this strategy.
The bottom line is that Israel is moving aggressively to take full control of Gaza, for its own security but also in a manner that will be for the benefit of the ordinary Gazans. Above all the strategy is to eliminate the bigoted genocidal Hamas leadership so that normality can return to these people. Once that is accomplished, Gazans might even be able to return to the real world, working as they once did in Israel and using their wages to build new lives inside Gaza itself.
They might even be able to make Gaza what it should have been for decades, a wonderful beach resort fronting the nicest part of the Mediterranean Sea.
There will never be peace in the Middle East until our King reigns supreme from Jerusalem. We have yet to see the Ezek 38-39 war but all the players are in the region today. Jus sayin!
This ought to be stickied. Very good news here. And I have heard one administration official (and I can't remember which...so much information) saying that food has gotten through to the people.
Great, now cut the money flow to Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and especially Israel. Also cut the money flow to The Agency.
A positive endgame in Gaza begins to loom
May 28, 2025 2:10 pm Robert Zimmerman
Israel food products, provided directly to Gazans
Several news stories in the past few weeks suggest to me that we are beginning to see the first signs of the end game that will bring about the defeat of Hamas and the establishment of a sane society within the Gaza strip.
First, it appears that Hamas is short of cash, according to a news report from a Saudi newspaper and then re-reported by an Israeli news outlet.
Sources within the terror group revealed that Hamas is struggling to pay salaries — not only to government employees, but also to members of its military wing and staff in other affiliated bodies at all levels.
The sources added that the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, have not paid salaries to terrorists for approximately three months and are facing serious financial difficulties in acquiring essential equipment for their military operations.
One of the things that has propped Hamas up for decades has been its control of foreign aid. The money comes in and Hamas doles it out while keeping large portions for its own use. The distribution of money gives Hamas leverage, while the money it keeps reinforces its power. Under Trump that foreign aid spigot has been largely shut down, and this story suggests we are now seeing the first results of this policy.
Second, Israel is now taking over the direct distribution of humanitarian aid. In the past Hamas maintained its power over its citizens by acting as the go-between of food and medicine. Nothing would go to anyone unless Hamas got its dirty hands on it first. Often no aid at all would reach Gazans. Hamas would keep it all, shipping it underground to its tunnels for use later during siege. Or it would sell that aid on the black market, raising money to fund its terrorist operations.
Israel, in partnership with the United States, is now ending that vile practice.
The Israeli military has set up a news aid distribution network in Gaza aimed at providing direct humanitarian aid to Gaza residents and bypassing the terrorist group Hamas.
Despite Hamas’s threats to target aid workers and disrupt the deliveries, the military has established four distribution centers as part of a U.S.-backed initiative, the Israeli media reported Tuesday. “The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that aid distribution centers had begun handing out humanitarian relief to Gazans,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “Four centers were established in recent weeks, the IDF said, in coordination with a US civil security company and by the directive of the Israeli government.” [emphasis mine]
This new policy began with the arrival of 170 trucks of aid, all of which went directly to Gazans and not to Hamas. Hamas apparently set up checkpoints to try to block Gazans from getting the aid, but those checkpoints were overrun by thousands, many of whom were reported to shout loud curses at Hamas as they did so.
All told, on the first day 8,000 food packages were distributed, equivalent to almost a half million meals.
Not only is this distribution policy neutering Hamas, it is doing so in a manner that allows the citizens of Gaza to interact directly with Israel. Note the picture above. These are Israeli products, handed to Gazans by Israel. The lies of hatred that Hamas has spread for decades against Israel and Judaism will quickly be rejected by Gazans if this direct contact expands.
Both of these stories fit well with a more detailed analysis of Israel’s short and long term military plans in Gaza, posted on May 5, 2025.
The Gazans have had enough, and polls show most want to leave their ravaged coastal strip to start anew elsewhere. They are currently trickling out in a slow but largely unpublicized exodus via Ramon Airport and the Jordanian border. Some are genuine humanitarian cases, but others likely betrayed Hamas, and their ticket out, along with a visa to a foreign nation, is part of the quid pro quo Israel has offered them.
Hamas is hopelessly depleted, entirely cut off from resupply for 19 months now. There is no celebratory gunfire in Gaza, not just because they are losing, but because every bullet is precious. From firing off hundreds of rockets a day, they now manage perhaps one a month or fewer. They are a spent force, entirely outclassed and surrounded.
After describing at length the weak state of Hamas, the author then outlines in great detail, with maps, the expected actions Israel’s military will take to finish off Hamas and take over Gaza completely. I strongly urge you to read what he writes. The main idea is to subdivide Gaza to isolate Hamas from its citizens so that Israel can deal directly with local officials.
The military plan Israel’s immediate military plan. Once isolated, Hamas leadership effectively loses control, ceasing to exist as an organization. Israel can make individual deals with division commanders, arranging safe passage to third countries. Those claiming Israel can’t occupy Gaza short- to medium-term ignore history. Israel has held up to 50% of Gaza with minimal troop numbers sustainably.
Once Gaza is partitioned, and the IDF has established bases enabling access to Hamas-free towns, arrangements for Gaza’s long-term governance can begin. Most likely, each city will gain self-governance under a fully demilitarized arrangement, surrounded and bisected by Israeli buffer zones, similar to the West Bank.
It appears the first two stories above are examples of the first stage of this strategy.
The bottom line is that Israel is moving aggressively to take full control of Gaza, for its own security but also in a manner that will be for the benefit of the ordinary Gazans. Above all the strategy is to eliminate the bigoted genocidal Hamas leadership so that normality can return to these people. Once that is accomplished, Gazans might even be able to return to the real world, working as they once did in Israel and using their wages to build new lives inside Gaza itself.
They might even be able to make Gaza what it should have been for decades, a wonderful beach resort fronting the nicest part of the Mediterranean Sea.
This is AFTER the recent theft by hamas of the aid sent into Gaza?
As long as nations pay thugs to cause terror this shit continues.
This is the way all our foreign aid has been used for decades! Worse than wasted -- the ppl do not get the aid, but the corrupt evil actors do!!
"The money comes in and Hamas doles it out while keeping large portions for its own use. "
There will never be peace in the Middle East until our King reigns supreme from Jerusalem. We have yet to see the Ezek 38-39 war but all the players are in the region today. Jus sayin!
This ought to be stickied. Very good news here. And I have heard one administration official (and I can't remember which...so much information) saying that food has gotten through to the people.