OFAC disrupts Hamas’s covert support network by designating 6 Gaza-based groups posing as humanitarian organisations and blocking an overseas entity for secretly funding its military wing

OFAC’s action targets a network of Gaza-based organisations that claim to provide medical care or broad representation but are covertly controlled by Hamas and divert donor funds to support the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, thereby strengthening international awareness of terrorist financing risks in the charitable sector. It also designates the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad for its role in backing flotilla efforts linked to Hamas, applying sanctions under Executive Order 13224 to safeguard the humanitarian sector…