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25.07.26 - 18:30
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US Sanctions UK-Based Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leader Over Alleged Hamas Support (ZeroHedge)
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US Sanctions UK-Based Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leader Over Alleged Hamas Support
The United States has sanctioned a senior UK-based Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) official alongside six other individuals and entities that it said provided material support to terrorist group Hamas.
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said on July 23 that the action exposes MB affiliates and “Hamas-directed front organizations that use charitable facades and underground networks to disguise and move funds in support of terrorism.”
As Evgenia Filimianova reports via The Epoch Times, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified Mahmoud al-Abyari as one of the sanctioned individuals, describing him as the UK-based secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood General Secretariat.
OFAC said al-Abyari helped raise funds for two organizations it had previously sanctioned over alleged Hamas ties—Filistin Vakfi and Hayat Yolu—and worked with MB groups to provide ...
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