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Hezbollah’s socioeconomic foundations: Al-Qard al-Hasan, a quasi-bank that provides interest-free loans, mainly to members of the Shiite community

Overview Hezbollah maintains an extensive network of social foundations in the Shiite community in Lebanon. These foundations deal with healthcare, education, finance, welfare, and communications. They serve as a supportive framework for the organization’s military infrastructure, as well as a means of disseminating Hezbollah’s ideology and strengthening its position among the Shiite community and in
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Funding Terrorism: campaign of a jihadi organization operating in the Gaza Strip to raise funds in Bitcoin

The Salafi Army of the Nation in Jerusalem, a jihadi organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda which operates in the Gaza Strip, recently renewed a campaign to raise funds in the Bitcoin virtual currency. According to the organization’s announcement, the donations are intended to provide the organization fighters with weapons and equipment (the cost of obtaining weapons for one fighter is estimated by the organization at $2,000).
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Hamas’s financial aid to the wounded and the families of those killed in the Return Marches

On April 21, 2019, Ahmed al-Kurd, member of the Hamas Political Bureau and the Hamas official in charge of the Wounded Portfolio, announced the distribution of financial aid to families whose children were killed or wounded during the return marches.
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Hezbollah’s Foundation for the Wounded: purpose, modus operandi and funding methods

Hezbollah maintains in Lebanon an extensive network of social foundations engaged in health, education, welfare, and media. The main goal of these foundations is to provide support for Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, to spread its ideology (mainly among youth) and strengthen Hezbollah’s image among the Shiite sect in particular and Lebanese society in general.
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Hezbollah’s Martyrs Foundation: purpose, mode of operation and funding methods

Hezbollah maintains an extensive network of social foundations in Lebanon that deal with health, education, welfare and media. Their main goal is to serve as a supportive framework for the organization’s military infrastructure, to disseminate its ideology and to strengthen its position among the Shiite community and the internal Lebanese political arena. Of these institutions, the Lebanese Martyrs Foundation is of key importance. It was established by Iran in 1982, the year in which Hezbollah was established.
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Funding Terrorism: ISIS raises funds through an affiliated website, using bitcoins

ISIS continues to solicit money to fund its activities by means of a campaign on an affiliated website. On March 6, 2019, the ISIS-affiliated website Akhbar al-Muslimin (a mirror website apparently used because the original site was closed) issued an appeal for donations to what was referred to as "the activities of the website." Donors were again asked to use bitcoins, and the website gave the address of a virtual wallet for depositing donations.
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