Muslim Brotherhood stole half a billion dollars in Gaza donations, Arab sources reveal
Farghali, for his part, noted that it is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to “exploit Gaza and Palestine for money.”
The Muslim Brotherhood allegedly stole half a billion dollars in donations for the Gaza Strip during a single campaign, Egyptian researcher Maher Farghali reported on Sunday.
While Farghali pointed out that it is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to “exploit Gaza and Palestine for money,” the difference with this incident is that the theft was condemned by Hamas.
The Waqf al-Ummah/Ummet Vakfı association, founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, is said to be behind the half-billion levy it raised during a single fundraiser in the name of “Gaza”. Waqf al-Ummah has been operating since 2013 in Türkiye and is supervised by religious figures.
Hamas became aware of the corruption in January 2024 through one of its youngest members, Khaled Mansour, who was investigating Waqf al-Ummah and associated individuals. In recent days, Mansour (@mansourgaza) has repeatedly published articles on the situation, including detailing the stolen figures.
“The biggest theft scandal in the history of the Islamic movement”
“How is it conceivable that many Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist elites remain silent in the face of the largest scandal of theft of funds from the people of Gaza in the history of the Islamic movement,” he wrote yesterday.
Displaced Palestinians walk past a vehicle carrying others west of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 15, 2025, as a depression hits the area. (credit: BASHAR TALEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Hamas issued a statement which was seen by The Jerusalem Post, after learning of the January 2024 incident, titled “denouncing and disavowing certain institutions and individuals”, in which he banned any relationship with Waqf al-Ummah.
Hamas spoke of “suspicious campaigns and funds raised in the name of Gaza, administered by certain institutions abroad that exploited the emotions of our people and our supporters under the pretext of relief and humanitarian aid.”
Hamas later stated that it had “no relationship with, nor does it supervise, these institutions and campaigns and does not authorize anyone to collect donations on its behalf.”
She claimed to have conducted an investigation and discovered that the said organization “had taken advantage of the situation in Gaza to collect large sums of money in the name of humanitarian aid, but had failed to deliver these funds to their rightful recipients.”
He goes on to state that “the movement [Hamas] has no relationship with the entity called: “Waqf al-Ummah” (Ummah Endowment Foundation)” and disavows several individuals associated with the movement named: Saeed Ibrahim “Abu Yunus”, Fouad al-Dweib, Samer Saeed Abdullah al-Sammari, Khaldoun Hijazi, Ahmed al-Amri and Zaid Omar Jaber.
According to Farghali, Waqf al-Ummah has carried out a large-scale marketing effort in recent days involving media figures working at Al Jazeera, as well as academics and clerics. “This extended to satellite channels, print and online media, and they organized conferences in Turkey to mobilize people to donate,” he noted on Sunday.
