The United States on Tuesday sanctioned five overseas charities and five of their executives, saying the groups posed as humanitarian organisations while channelling money to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Those designated include Gaza-based Al Weam Charitable Society; Filistin Vakfi in Türkiye; Algeria’s El Baraka Association for Charitable and Humanitarian Work; the Netherlands-based Israa Charitable Foundation; and Italy’s Associazione Benefica La Cupola d’Oro. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, linked to the PFLP, was also blacklisted.
Treasury officials said the network raised donations worldwide and diverted them to Hamas’s military wing while presenting the activity as relief work. Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender said the move “safeguards the charitable sector from abuse by terrorists who continue to exploit sham non-profits to finance violence.”
All U.S. property and interests of the designated parties are now blocked, and Americans are generally barred from dealing with them. Treasury added that it would keep pressing Hamas financially; the group still holds hostages seized in its 7 October 2023 assault on Israel.