How cryptocurrency fueled Hamas' terror attack on Israel

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Israel is one of only nine global nuclear powers and boasts one of the world's most advanced and interconnected air defense systems. Israel's "Iron Dome" has been largely successful at repelling air attacks from Hamas for years. But on October 7, Hamas — an Islamist militant group and de facto governing authority in Gaza that is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US, Germany and other governments — succeeded in overwhelming those defenses, firing more than 2,000 rockets into Israel from inside the Gaza Strip. How did Hamas gather the resources for such a sophisticated attack against…