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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
US issues sanctions against charities supporting Hamas, PFLP
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The United States imposes sanctions targeting individuals and sham charities that it says were prominent financial supporters of the Palestinian groups Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The individuals and groups targeted were funding Hamas’s military wing under the pretense of doing humanitarian work, in Gaza and internationally, the Treasury Department says.
The Treasury says it will continue to seek disruptions to the financial capabilities of Hamas, which still holds hostages it seized in the group’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel.
The entities sanctioned included the Gaza-based Al Weam Charitable Society, the Turkey-based Filistin Vakfi, the El Baraka Association for Charitable and Humanitarian Work, which is based in Algeria, the Netherlands-based Israa Charitable Foundation, and the Associazione Benefica La Cupola d’Oro, based in Italy, the department says in a statement.
The five individuals targeted were leaders associated with the groups, it says.
“Today’s action underscores the importance of safeguarding the charitable sector from abuse by terrorists like Hamas and the PFLP, who continue to leverage sham charities as fronts for funding their terrorist and military operations,” Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender says in the statement.
Hamas and PFLP have a long history of abusing non-profit organizations and charities, the Treasury said.
The Times of Israel Community.