Hamas leader’s son ‘spent a fortune on lavish jewellery’ while Gazans starved as 5 receipts found in IDF terror raids

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THE son of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh spent a fortune on lavish jewellery as ordinary Gazans starved, Israel claims.

Five receipts reportedly found during IDF terror raids expose Moaz Haniyeh’s obsession with jewels that totalled a staggering £20,000.

Moaz Haniyeh, right, reportedly spent thousands on high-end jewellery from 2021-2022 while ordinary Gazans suffered in poverty[/caption]

He is the son of Hamas’s top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in a luxury penthouse in the safety of Qatar[/caption]

Moaz Haniyeh, right. Israel claims the receipts prove that Hamas’s top brass enjoys the billionaire life while the population they rule starves[/caption]

The alleged receipts totalled £20,000 in jewellery purchases made by the terror chief’s son[/caption]

Hamas has ruled the Gaza Strip for 16 brutal years and conditions inside have long been dire with half of Palestinians dependent on food aid before the war with Israel began.

For years, over two million in the densely-populated enclave languished in abject poverty and starved to death, while Hamas leaders lived in marble-floored mansions and lavish hotels.

The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of £9billion, including Ismail Haniyeh, 61, who has sanctuary in Qatar and lives in a billionaire penthouse apartment.

And it appears his son too has a penchant for the high life.

Just one of the jewellery purchases made between 2021-2022 is “equivalent to approximately two years of work for a resident of Gaza,” said IDF spokesman Avijaa Adraei.

He posted the scanned receipts written in Arabic on X/Twitter to condemn Moaz for enjoying a life of luxury as Palestinians inside Gaza suffered.

Adraei fumed: “It is people like these who live a luxurious life and decide for you what your life will look like.

“It is the one that decided to impose war on you, but it does not care about your lives, knowing that some of them do not even live in Gaza.”

Israel is ferociously hunting down Hamas’s top leaders, including “Gaza’s Bin Laden”, Yahya Sinwar, who is accused of masterminding the October 7 massacres that saw 1,200 slaughtered.

An IDF official told The Sun that the terror chiefs are hiding like “cowards” underneath Gaza using civilians as human shields.

Sinwar, 61, is at “the top of our kill list,” said Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner as he vowed to root out every last terrorist.

It comes as Israel moves to capture more of Khan Younis as its ground and air offensive has left Palestinians packed together in horrific humanitarian conditions.

The IDF said it had struck more than 450 targets over a 24-hour period as it continues to encircles Gaza’s second largest city.

Extraordinary footage revealed more than 100 Hamas suspects stripped half naked in the middle of the street after Israeli troops rounded them up.

The UN estimates 1.9 million people have been displaced by the fighting so far and Israel’s new military evacuation orders are squeezing people into ever-smaller areas.

Most are lacking access to food, water and medicine after months of Israel’s bombardment and siege, which has made much-needed aid deliveries inside the Strip almost impossible.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said the death toll in the territory has surpassed 17,100 – 70 per cent of which are women and children, with another 46,000 wounded.

The UN Security Council is set to vote today on a humanitarian ceasefire motion.

The vote followed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s unprecedented move to invoke Article 99 of the UN charter for the first time in decades to call on the Security Council to act.

It is needed to move aid supplies to Gaza, where Guterres has warned of a “complete breakdown” of public order due to “desperate conditions”.

The US announced on Thursday that it has not given Israel a deadline for when it must end its offensive in Gaza.

“We have not given a firm deadline to Israel — not really our role. This is their conflict,” US Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer said.

The response came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel’s war cabinet last week that Israel has weeks, not months, to finish its military operation.