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US, Britain impose more sanctions on Hamas officials
14 December 2023 14:27
The United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday imposed a fourth round of sanctions on individuals in Türkiye and elsewhere linked to the Palestinian Hamas militant group, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The sanctions target eight individuals who perpetuate Hamas’s agenda by representing the group's interests abroad and managing its finances, the Treasury said in a statement, according to Reuters.
"Hamas continues to rely heavily on networks of well-placed officials and affiliates, exploiting seemingly permissive jurisdictions to direct fundraising campaigns for the group’s benefit and funnelling those illicit proceeds to support its military activities in Gaza," said Brian Nelson, undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Several of the Hamas officials targeted were based in Türkiye, including one of the group's key financial operatives there, Haroun Mansour Yaqoub Nasser Al-Din, the Treasury said.
Haround Nasser Al-Din has been involved in a network that transferred money from Türkiye and Gaza to the Hamas command centre in the West Bank city of Hebron, it said, and helped subsidize Hamas activities to further unrest in the West Bank.
Nelson travelled to Oman and Türkiye at the end of November to work on U.S. efforts to deny Hamas and other groups the ability to raise and move funds.
The United States and Britain earlier imposed three rounds of sanctions on the Palestinian militant group after its deadly incursion into Israel on October 7.
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