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Britain and US unveil new sanctions against ‘Hamas financiers’

  • Asset freezes and travel bans were imposed on 5 ‘key figures’ and an entity said to be involved with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the UK said
  • UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Britain is ‘committed to ensuring there is no hiding place for those financing terrorist activities’

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Britain and the United States unveiled new asset freezes and travel bans on Monday on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) figures, in their latest coordinated asset freezes and travel bans aimed at regional militants.

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Five “key figures” and an entity said to be involved in the leadership and financial networks of Hamas and PIJ were targeted, the British government said.

The measures “will help to cut off the flow of funding that supports these terrorist groups, including from Iran”, it added.

Western nations have imposed a growing number of sanctions on Hamas and its allies since the Palestinian militant group’s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel.

Hamas militants killed about 1,140 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse tally based on official Israeli figures.

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Almost 25,300 people, around 70 per cent of them women, young children and adolescents, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli bombardments and ground attacks since October 7, according to the Hamas government’s health ministry.

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