The American Department of the Treasury announced lately sanctions against ten key members of Hamas, operatives, and other financial facilitators. The sanctioned individuals are based in Gaza but also in Algeria, Qatar, Sudan, and Türkiye. “The United States is taking swift and decisive action to target Hamas’s financiers and facilitators,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. The American sanctions target in particular “members managing Hamas investment portfolios.” They target, among others, a financial agent based in Qatar “close to Iran” as well as those responsible for a cryptocurrency base located in Gaza, the treasury department said in a press release. “These investment networks are run by the highest-ranking members of the Hamas leadership and allow them to live in luxury while Palestinians in Gaza face very difficult economic and living conditions,” the department of the Treasury added.
