US targets Hamas with sanctions on anniversary of Gaza war

WASHINGTON — 

The United States connected Monday imposed sanctions connected an planetary Hamas fundraising network, accusing it of playing a captious relation successful outer fundraising for the Palestinian militant group, successful enactment marking the archetypal day of the Gaza war.

The U.S. Treasury Department successful a connection said it imposed sanctions connected 3 radical and what it called a "sham charity" that it accused of being salient planetary fiscal supporters of Hamas, arsenic good arsenic connected the Al-Intaj Bank successful Gaza that it said was controlled by the group.

Also targeted was a longstanding Hamas supporter, a Yemeni nationalist surviving successful Turkey, and 9 of his businesses, Treasury said.

“As we people 1 twelvemonth since Hamas’s brutal violent attack, Treasury volition proceed relentlessly degrading the quality of Hamas and different destabilizing Iranian proxies to concern their operations and transportation retired further convulsive acts,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said successful the statement.

“The Treasury Department volition usage each disposable tools astatine our disposal to clasp Hamas and its enablers accountable, including those who question to exploit the concern to unafraid further sources of revenue.”

In their rampage done Israeli towns and kibbutz villages adjacent the Gaza borderline a twelvemonth ago, Hamas-led militants killed immoderate 1,200 radical and took astir 250 hostages backmost to Gaza, according to Israeli figures.

The immense Israeli information lapse led to the azygous deadliest time for Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, shattered galore citizens' consciousness of information and sent their religion successful its leaders to caller lows.

The Hamas battle unleashed an Israeli violative connected Gaza that has mostly flattened the densely populated enclave and killed astir 42,000 people, Palestinian wellness authorities say.

The Treasury connected Monday said: "Hamas has exploited the suffering successful Gaza to solicit funds done sham and beforehand charities that falsely assertion to assistance civilians successful Gaza," adding that arsenic of aboriginal this year, the radical whitethorn person received arsenic overmuch arsenic $10 cardinal a period done specified donations. The Treasury said Hamas considers Europe to beryllium a cardinal root of fundraising.

Monday's enactment targeted an Italy-based Hamas subordinate the Treasury said established the sham Charity Association of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which it accused of helping bankroll Hamas' subject wing.

Also targeted was a elder Hamas typical successful Germany and a Hamas typical successful complaint of the group's enactment successful Austria.

Hamas is simply a U.S. designated violent group.