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Short answer
At the September 25 UN General Assembly, the EU representative announced that Europe will pay to rebuild Gaza. What that really means is Hamas can wage war, massacre Israelis, sacrifice its own civilians, destroy Gaza, and then send the invoice to European taxpayers.
European funding has already bankrolled Hamas’s jihad for years, fueling corruption and terror instead of development and reform. Billions in EU money paid terrorist salaries and “martyr” pensions while Hamas built a subterranean fortress of tunnels instead of a future for Palestinians.
In the Middle East this isn’t viewed as generosity or compassion, it’s read as weakness.
For Hamas and the PA, every euro proves that terror is profitable.
And make no mistake: Hamas won’t release hostages or surrender as long as others keep footing the bill. Europe thinks it’s buying peace. In reality, it’s just putting a down payment on the next war.
Long answer
At the September 25 UN General Assembly, the EU representative announced that Europe will take charge of rebuilding Gaza — but why should European taxpayers clean up after Hamas’s war, when their money has already been squandered for years on corruption, terror, and zero accountability?
The evidence is overwhelming: in 2021, Israeli security services exposed how European development funds in Gaza and the West Bank were siphoned off to the PFLP, a designated terrorist organization, through NGOs like the Health Work Committees, which forged invoices and fake projects to pay salaries, recruit operatives, and support terrorists’ families.
Billions of euros have also financed salaries for convicted terrorists and “martyrs’” families — roughly $300 million a year that rewards violence instead of deterring it, mainly through the Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay for Slay’ fund.
In Gaza, European governments and EU institutions funneled cash and vouchers through the Ministry of Social Development, fully controlled by Hamas, and UK documents showed the aid was coordinated directly with this ministry even as Hamas manipulated the recipient lists.
European funding also helped Hamas convert civilian infrastructure into part of its war machine: one documented tunnel, 1.5 miles long, required 800 tons of concrete and cost about $10 million, and over 15 years Hamas built an underground empire worth more than $1 billion while the promised reforms never arrived.
Yet the EU remains the Palestinians’ biggest donor, with €1.36 billion allocated for 2021–2024 and more programs scheduled through 2026 and 2027.
Brussels now talks about investing not only in the Palestinian Authority but also in the “institutions” of a future Palestinian state, as if money and premature recognition can turn rejectionists into partners for peace. But in the Middle East, this isn’t seen as charity, it’s seen as weakness.
European taxpayers should be asking why their money is still propping up Hamas, subsidizing the PA’s pay-for-slay policy, and financing a phantom state that refuses to renounce terror. And let’s be clear: Hamas will never release the hostages or surrender as long as it knows someone else will keep paying for its crimes.
Every euro poured into this system doesn’t resolve the conflict — it bankrolls the next war.
