The Gaza Grift: Meet Dr. Hamza Al Sharif
A Gaza doctor who had family in Hamas’ Qassam Brigades has quietly raised at least $45,000 on GoFundMe, further highlighting the platform’s inability to prevent abuse
We’ve all heard the stories: Gazans launching emotional crowdfunding campaigns, only for the money to disappear—or worse, end up in terrorist hands.
The most infamous case? Saleh al-Jafarawi, aka “Mr. Fafo,” a Hamas member who allegedly embezzled $10 million he claimed was for rebuilding a Gaza hospital. In reality, it likely went straight to Hamas.
But he’s not the only one.
Gaza-based fundraising has become a murky ecosystem of unverifiable appeals—many of them run by people with clear terror affiliations or sympathies. And Western platforms like GoFundMe are ill-equipped to stop it.
Take Dr. Hamza al-Sharif, an anesthesiologist at Gaza’s European Hospital—the very one under which Hamas leader Mohammad Sinwar was likely killed earlier this week in an IDF strike on a terror tunnel.
Dr. al-Sharif has an active PayPal fundraiser and a GoFundMe campaign that claims the money will go “to him and his family members.” As of this writing, the GoFundMe has raised over $13,000. He posts the link to the GoFundMe dozens of time per day on his X account.
But here’s the thing:
A prior GoFundMe campaign for Hamza raised over $31,000.
A third campaign has vanished—its page now returns a blank screen.
That means he’s raised at least $44,000, possibly more—and that’s not even counting the donations he’s recieved on PayPal, which aren’t public as far as I’m aware. And we’re told this is all for his family.
So—who exactly is his family? Hamza’s Facebook page gives us some insight.
On his Facebook page, Hamza proudly honors two relatives (relation unclear): Mahmoud and Mohammed al-Sharif, both members of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, killed in 2014. He calls them “lion cubs of the Merciful” and celebrates their “martyrdom” in multiple posts.
Oh, and this was his Facebook profile picture back in 2014:
This is a man openly glorifying Hamas terrorists—now collecting tens of thousands of dollars via Western crowdfunding platforms with no accountability.
GoFundMe says it has anti-terror safeguards. But once money enters Gaza—a territory controlled by a U.S.-designated terror group—those safeguards mean nothing. No audits. No oversight. No transparency.
So again, the question remains:
Who’s really benefiting from your generosity?
And how many more “doctors” like Hamza are quietly cashing out in the name of suffering?