The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions "against a group of ten Hamas members and the Palestinian militant organization’s financial network across Gaza, Sudan, Turkey, Algeria and Qatar." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated:
The United States is taking swift and decisive action to target Hamas’s financiers and facilitators following its brutal and unconscionable massacre of Israeli civilians, including children (...) We will not hesitate to use our tools against Hamas. We will continue to take all steps necessary to deny Hamas terrorists the ability to raise and use funds to carry out atrocities and terrorize the people of Israel.
"This action targets members managing assets in a secret Hamas investment portfolio, a Qatar-based financial facilitator with close ties to the Iranian regime, a key Hamas commander, and a Gaza-based virtual currency exchange and its operator." "That includes by imposing sanctions and coordinating with allies and partners to track, freeze, and seize any Hamas-related assets in their jurisdictions":
As a result of today’s action all property and interests in property of the designated persons described above that are in the United States, or in the possession or control of U.S. persons, are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked person are also blocked.
Who are the sanctioned?
Some of the individuals and companies that have been sanctioned by the Treasury are:
- Musa Muhammad Salim Dudin (Dudin): "West Bank-based member of Hamas’s Political Bureau and Investment Office official and is responsible for negotiations to free Hamas members in prison."
- Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Mohamed Khair (Hamza): "A Sudan-based Hamas financier who has managed numerous companies in Hamas' investment portfolio and was previously involved in the transfer of nearly $20 million to Hamas."
- Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa (Alshawa), Ahmed Sadu Jahleb (Jahleb), Aiman Ahmad Al-Duwaik (al-Duwaik) and Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah (Jadallah): "Hamas operatives and are part of Hamas's investment network in Türkiye and Algeria."
- Muhammad Ahmad 'Abd Al-Dayim Nasrallah (Nasrallah): "A longtime Hamas operative based in Qatar with close ties to Iranian elements."
- Ayman Nofal (Nofal): "The commander of military relations for Hamas and serves as a member of the terrorist group's General Military Council."
- Buy Cash Money and Money Transfer Company (Buy Cash): "A Gaza-based company offering money transfer and virtual currency exchange services, including Bitcoin (...) For it's involvement in Hamas fundraising."
- Ahmed M.M. Alaqad (Alaqad): "Representative of Buy Cash and is the owner of the Buy Cash financial exchange."
