Iranian Funding Enables Weekend Rocket Attacks That Kill Four Israelis

May 7, 2019 press@uani.com Iranian Funding Enables Weekend Rocket Attacks That Kill Four Israelis (New York, N.Y.) - As a ceasefire takes hold between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is exposing Iran's arming and funding of Palestinian militants and inciting conflict. Four Israelis were killed over the weekend when Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas launched up to 600 rockets and other projectiles into Israel. PIJ and Hamas both receive substantial financial support from Iran and both are designed by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations. PIJ has been directly supported by Iran since 1987. Hamas, which has ruled by force in Gaza for more than a decade, reportedly receives "tens of millions of dollars" from Iran each year. "Iran's dangerous financial and material support is what allowed the launching of hundreds of rockets into Israel and led to the tragic loss of life," said UANI Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. "Last weekend's events demonstrate the importance of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Iran--which seeks to deprive the regime of revenues it uses to incite violence." As part of its response to the rocket attacks, the Israeli government announced the successful targeting of a Hamas field commander, Hammed Ahmad al-Khudari, who had helped transfer millions of dollars from Iran to Gaza militants. In its report, Proxy Wars: Regional Dominance Strategy, UANI documents how Iran supports both PIJ and Hamas as part of its hegemonic ambitions. According to the U.S. State Department, Iran has provided "various Palestinian terror groups" $100 million per year. Specifically, Tehran has been funding PIJ for more than 30 years and the group is extremely open about Iran being its main supporter: "All of the weapons in Gaza are provided by Iran... the largest share of this financial and military support is coming from Iran," said a PIJ spokesman in 2013. UANI's report, Iran's Ideological Expansion, also demonstrates how the Iranian regime remains the region's destabilizer-in-chief, preying on weak governance and economic vulnerabilities to spread its revolutionary dogma throughout the Palestinian territories. To view UANI's report: Proxy Wars: Regional Dominance Strategy, please click here. To read UANI's report: Iran's Ideological Expansion, please click here. United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons.  UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

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