{"id":634702,"date":"2026-10-03T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:06:09","slug":"us-sanctions-three-individuals-and-two-charities-over-alleged-hamas-financing-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634702\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions three individuals and two charities over alleged Hamas financing | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> on Friday unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas<\/a> and against two charities based in France while also announcing six arrests \u2013 actions that the government called an \u201cextraordinary counter-terrorism work\u201d to expose \u201ca sophisticated, multi\u2011year financing architecture\u201d.<\/p>\n

Investigators alleged that the network moved more than $2m to Hamas<\/a> \u201cthrough deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels\u201d.<\/p>\n

The United States treasury department announced<\/a> that all property in the US of those sanctioned is \u201cblocked and must be reported\u201d to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) \u2013 and that entities owned by those individuals are also blocked.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerrorist organizations like Hamas rely on sophisticated financial facilitators and fraudulent schemes designed to exploit the public to sustain their operations,\u201d US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. \u201cTreasury will continue to identify, isolate, and impose consequences on those who provide Hamas with the financial lifelines it needs to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those sanctioned are Saleem Alzaq, accused of being part of the Hamas military wing and based in Gaza, as well as Faouzi Barika and Amel Oualid, both residents of France who run charities \u201costensibly to raise money for humanitarian purposes to aid Gazan civilians\u201d, according to the treasury.<\/p>\n

The charities sanctioned are Association Baraka and Ensemble C Mieux. The three of them allegedly collected more than $2m for Hamas during a six-year period beginning in 2020. And treasury officials said $1.5m was raised after Hamas\u2019 deadly 7 October 2023 attack<\/a> on Israel, which responded by launching war in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the US justice department on Friday announced<\/a> the unsealing of an indictment charging one man and the arrests of another three for their alleged \u201cinvolvement in paying, soliciting and collecting funds for Hamas\u201d. As part of that same plot, three other associates were arrested in France.<\/p>\n

The FBI said those men were engaging in a conspiracy to \u201cfunnel money to Hamas and fuel violent attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alzaq, 45, was the man indicted on charges of conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, among other counts. He allegedly \u201coperated an international Hamas fundraising network that collects donations from individuals around the world, including \u2026 in the United States\u201d, US attorney Jamie McDonald of New York\u2019s southern district said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The US justice department also described Alzaq as a Hamas member in the Gaza Strip and a battalion deputy in the group\u2019s armed wing. Justice department officials accused him of serving in \u201ca Hamas propaganda office\u201d as a photographer who \u201cposted propaganda\u201d of the organization on social media.<\/p>\n

Two of the three men arrested in the US were identified as Omar Adhami and Abdel Adhami, residents of the New Orleans suburb of Covington, Louisiana<\/a>. The third was identified as Raed Yousef of the Tampa suburb of Lutz, Florida.<\/p>\n

A statement attributed to the US attorney for Louisiana\u2019s eastern district, David Courcelle, alleged that the Adhamis provided Alzaq with \u201cresources intended to fund Hamas\u2019 relentless reign of terror\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Adhamis and Yousef were accused of contributing tens of thousands of dollars to Hamas and could face up to 80 years in prison if convicted as charged. Some of the charges that they face include conspiracy to provide material to \u201ca designated foreign terrorist organization\u201d and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Trump administration\u2019s attorney general Todd Blanche<\/a> said \u201canyone who finances or assists\u201d terrorist groups should expect to face federal prosecution.<\/p>\n

A separate statement from the Trump administration\u2019s FBI director Kash Patel<\/a> said the agency would \u201cnever forget the horrific attack on Israel by Hamas\u201d on 7 October 2023 \u2013 and that it would \u201cnever stop \u2026 efforts to cut off funding to Hamas terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration on Friday unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-634702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634702","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=634702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}