Again, drop the IL/Hamas conspiracy stuff. I will have the last word on that for clarity of those who might not know...

Hamas is funded/backed/controlled by Iran. Whatever they may have intended to be, IR hijacked them and their cause, turning them into a proxy for IR's interests.

Is it possible that mossad handed a Hamas member a bag of cash? Sure. That's a routine HUMINT intelligence operation, paying a source. Especially in the ME, where they're not culturally inclined to loyalty to institutions or nations, other than self, family, clan. It's the wild, wild west, not what we're used to where people line up on sides of a clearly marked line of scrimmage, with distinct uniforms.

While we think of NFL football, the game over the is soccer... with everybody on a team of one (brief alliances of convenience are possible).

Feel free to start a separate thread on hamas in hangar talk.

Now back to the Iran to the east...