GAZA, Palestine, June 4 (NNN-WAFA) – The Islamic Hamas movement announced that, it decided to intensify its electronic fund-raising of Bitcoin, calling on the world to support the movement and its armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.
Abu Obeida, spokesman of the al-Qassam Brigades, said, his group plans to send hundreds of millions of messages to the cell phones of millions of Arabs, Muslims and “the people of the free world.”
The messages will be in eight different languages, including Russian, Turkish, Indonesian and Malaysian, he added.
“These messages aim at facilitating the process of electronic fund-raising (Bitcoin) of the resistance group. We call on everyone to deal with these messages, share it and publish it everywhere,” Obeida noted.
The Hamas armed wing launched a campaign on Jan 29, to earn financial support for the first time through the currency of Bitcoin “to fight Israel’s attempts to prevent all kinds of support for the movement.”
Hamas has been going through a financial crisis for several years, which it blames on an almost 12-year Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.– NNN-WAFA
