BRUSSELS: The European Union on Friday imposed sanctions on six individuals for financing Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Sanctions included asset freeze and visa ban blacklist.
Musa Dudin, a senior member of Hamas’s investment office, along with financiers based in Sudan, Lebanon and Algeria are included those sanctioned.
“We are listing six people that have been participating in financing or facilitating the finance of Hamas,” a high-ranking EU official said.
The EU official further said that the sanctioned individuals will get their assets frozen in the European Union and they will get a travel ban to enter the European territory.
Earlier, The Islamist movement’s Gaza political chief Yahya Sinwar was included to the EU’s terrorist blacklist. Hamas is already declared as a “terrorist” organization by the EU.
The sanctions on those involved in financing Hamas come before EU foreign ministers hold separate discussion in Brussels on Monday with their counterparts from Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Diplomats say EU nations are also in the process of drawing up sanctions against “extremist” Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
The Gaza health ministry under Hamas reported on Friday that at least 142 more Palestinians were killed in Israel’s relentless ground and air offensive in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of casualties to 24,762 since October 7 of the previous year. Most of them are women and children, data of the health ministry shows.
