The US and Britain imposed sanctions against people and organizations associated with Hamas

The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two organizations associated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ, an organization designated as terrorist in Russia and banned in Russia). The press service of the department reported this.

According to the US Treasury, Hamas and PIJ received hundreds of millions of dollars in support from Iran, primarily through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In this regard, the following were included in the sanctions list:

PIJ representative in Iran Nasser Abu Sharif; the Iran-funded Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation in the Gaza Strip, whose main task, according to the US Treasury Department, was to provide financial assistance to the families of PIJ militants and imprisoned members of the group; one of the leaders of the PID and head of the Mukhjat Al-Quds Foundation, Jamil Yusuf Ahmad Aliyan; Deputy Secretary General of the PIJ in Damascus and leader of the Al-Quds Brigade (the combat wing of the PIJ) Akram al-Ajouri; Lebanese currency exchange company Nabil Chouman & Co, which “served as a conduit for financing Hamas”; Nabil Chouman & Co owner Nabil Khaled Khalil Chouman and his son Khaled Chouman; participant in the operation to transfer money from Iran to the Gaza Strip, Reda Ali Khamis.

At the same time as the United States, Great Britain introduced new sanctions against Hamas , the press service of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. Six people were included in the British sanctions list:

Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar; commander of the Izzeddine al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas), Mohammed al-Deif; senior Hamas member and deputy commander of the Izzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, Marwan Issa; senior West Bank Hamas member Musa Dunin; Sudanese citizen Abdelbasit Hamza is the owner of a network of companies that, according to British authorities, laundered money for Hamas; Lebanese citizen Nabil Khaled Khalil Chouman, who sent money to Hamas through his currency exchange company.

The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said at a press conference that EU countries at a meeting of foreign ministers on November 13 also discussed the possibility of introducing sanctions against Hamas. The group is recognized as a terrorist organization in the European Union.

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