sanctions applied to companies and individuals accused of financing Hamas

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These sanctions target three firms described as “ shell companies intended to facilitate financial flows ” and Hamas investments, controlled by a businessman based in Sudan already sanctioned by the EU, specifies the European Council in a press release.

In addition, the European Council also sanctioned Ahmed Sharif Abdallah Odeh, accused of directing Hamas’s foreign investment activities. In total, 12 people and three organizations are now subject to EU sanctions since the October 7 attack by Hamas against IsraelThe sanctions include an asset freeze and a ban on those affected from entering the EU.

Sanctions applied against Hamas and Islamic Jihad in January

The EU had already announced sanctions against Hamas and Islamic Jihad in January, targeting in particular Yahya Sinouar, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Gazaconsidered the architect of the October 7 attack.

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This attack by the Islamist movement against Israel resulted in the death of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.

Israel responded with a major offensive in Gaza. The war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the small Palestinian territory of 2.4 million people, which has been under siege by Israel since October 9. In nearly nine months of war, at least 37,765 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to data from the Health Ministry of the local government run by Hamas.