Zaher Jabarin

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Zaher Jabarin (Arabic: زاهر جبارين; born 18 September 1968) is a member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and serves as Hamas' financial administrator. He has led the Hamas Financial Bureau since the mid-2010s, managing the group's investment portfolio, estimated to be over $500 million. The financial network Jabarin oversees raises, invests, and launders money destined for Hamas military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip via networks in Turkey, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. With Saleh al-Arouri, Jabarin was one of the co-founders of Hamas' military wing in the West Bank in the late 1980s. In 1993, Jabarin was arrested and an Israeli military court sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 35 years for killing Israelis during the First Intifada. Jabarin was released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011, after which he assumed leadership of the Hamas Financial Bureau from his base in Istanbul, Turkey. He was also head of the Office...

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