[Daily Caller] Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is seizing as much as 95 percent of the cement entering the Gaza Strip and using it for military purposes, said the Israeli Foreign Ministry Thursday.Director-General Dore Gold said the finding was a the result of his ministry's investigation into Israeli aid shipments entering the Gaza strip as part of humanitarian aid efforts. Hamas has reportedly been using cement meant for civilian construction projects in order to build tunnels into Israeli territory from which the group can engage in terrorist attacks.
"From our own investigations we found that out of every 100 sacks of cement that come into the Gaza Strip [from Israel], only five or six are transferred to civilians," said Gold, addressing the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. "A hundred sacks is what is necessary to rebuild a home, the rest are confiscated by Hamas and used for military purposes."