US TREASURY SEEKING COALITION AGAINST HAMAS FINANCING: OFFICIAL

Wed 25 October 2023:

Days after the US announced new sanctions on Hamas members, operatives and financial facilitators, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo says the country aims to build an international coalition to target the group’s financing.

“Our goal is to build a coalition with countries both in the region but also around the world to go after their financing,” Adeyemo told AFP on the sidelines of an event in Washington.

Adeyemo said that during a trip to Europe later this week, he plans to meet “allies and partners and talk about what we can do in a coordinated way to go after Hamas’s financial network”.

His comments came after French President Emmanuel Macron – during a solidarity visit to Israel – called for Hamas to be added to the targets of an international coalition against ISIL (ISIS).

Without commenting on Macron’s specific remarks, Adeyemo told AFP that “the strategy that was used to counteract the Islamic State and other terrorist groups is the one we have to use here”.

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