US Treasury imposes sanctions on Hamas supporters, financial network

The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against three individuals, one charity, and a Hamas-controlled financial institution in Gaza, citing their significant role in financially supporting the organization.

Additionally, the department designated a long-time Hamas supporter and nine of his businesses, disrupting a key financial network.

“These actors play critical roles in external fundraising for Hamas, often under the guise of charitable work, that finance the group’s terrorist activities,” the department said in a statement.

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“As we mark one year since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack, Treasury will continue relentlessly degrading the ability of Hamas and other destabilizing Iranian proxies to finance their operations and carry out additional violent acts,” said Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.

The sanctions freeze any US assets held by the designated individuals or entities and generally bar people in the United States from doing business with them.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has announced the easing of some restrictions for residents in areas of northern Israel that were put in place after Hezbollah increased the intensity of its cross-border rocket fire in recent weeks.

The military said the “activity scale will be changed from Limited Activity to Partial Activity”, adding that educational activities in those areas can now be held if they are adjacent to bomb shelters or other safe rooms.

“The rest of the country’s guidelines remain unchanged,” it said.