{"id":450483,"date":"2026-05-20T02:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450483\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:43:19","slug":"gaza-flotilla-leader-tied-to-hamas-sanctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450483\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza flotilla leader tied to Hamas sanctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gaza flotilla leader tied to an alleged Hamas<\/a> front group, as well as leaders of a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-linked network, were sanctioned by the Department of the US Treasury\u2019s Office<\/a> of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee member and Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) General Secretariat member Saif Abukeshek, PCPA acting General Secretary and president Hisham Abu Mahfuz, Samidoun Europe coordinator Mohammed Khatib, and Samidoun Madrid and Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Movement founder Jaldia Abubakra have been designated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pro-terror flotilla attempting to reach Gaza is a ludicrous attempt to undermine President [Donald] Trump\u2019s successful progress toward lasting peace in the region,\u201d said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. \u201cTreasury will continue to sever Hamas\u2019 global financial support networks, no matter where in the world they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abukeshek and Abu Mahfuz were added to the list of specially designated nationals (SDN) for their association with the PCPA, which was sanctioned by OFAC in January for allegedly serving as a front group for Hamas.<\/p>\n

The former activist has gained prominence as a leader of the Gaza flotilla movement with the GSF. He participated in the recent flotilla, only to be intercepted by the Israeli Navy<\/a> on April 29.<\/p>\n

He was detained for questioning about his connections to PCPA and Hamas until his deportation last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Khatib and Abubakra were added to the SDN list for their roles as officers of Samidoun, which was designated a terrorist<\/a> front by the US and Canada in October 2024.<\/p>\n

Abubakra, who participated in the flotilla in August, was also noted by the Treasury to have played a key role in the establishment of a “Samidoun partner organization in 2021.”<\/p>\n

This is possibly a reference to Masar Badil, the Palestinian Revolutionary Path, which was founded that year and is led by Samidoun co-founder Khaled Barakat, who was also sanctioned in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gaza flotilla leader tied to an alleged Hamas front group, as well as leaders of a Popular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8319,51,42,43,98286,4321,40,38,41,39,65346],"class_list":["post-450483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine","tag-sanctions","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}