When I bought my Huawei my reasoning was basically, huawei and potentially chinese authorities might spy on me, however they have no jurisdiction over me and are probably at least a little less likely to comply with requests for warrant less wiretapping by my own government. The google apps are another story unfortunately. But if Hamas are using de-googled phones then that isn’t an issue.

Edit: I may be remembering wrong but isn’t Huawei barred from including google apps/services due to sanctions anyway?