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Traders with prior knowledge of Hamas attacks made millions shorting Israel, claims report

Suspicious stock market activity suggests more than $100m made betting against Tel Aviv shares prior to Oct 7 massacre

Investors with prior knowledge of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre earned at least tens of millions of pounds short-selling Israeli stocks in the days before, according to a report.
Traders with potential links to Hamas put huge bets against the Israeli economy in the run-up to the attack and could have made more than $100 million (£79.3 million), said the 60-page study by Robert Jackson Jr, of New York University School of Law, and Joshua Mitts, of Columbia Law School.

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