“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
See: “Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant” Haaretz
https://archive.ph/ovlYu#selection-453.10-457.73
Also see: “How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas” WSJ https://archive.ph/ovlYu