The European Union (EU) will adopt on Monday “a sanctions regime” against the Palestinian movement Hamasfor the bloody incursion carried out by Islamist militiamen in Israel on October 7, French diplomacy announced this Thursday.
“It is a regime of sanctions against individuals and the transfer of funds,” the deputy spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a press conference. Christophe Lemoine.
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The sanctions target the Islamist movement, in power in the Strip Loopand some of its leaders involved in the attack that sparked a war with Israel.
Islamist militants killed about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, on October 7, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data. They also kidnapped some 250 people, 132 of whom remain captive in Loop.
Israel vowed to annihilate Hamas and launched an air and ground offensive that left nearly 25,000 dead in Loopalso mostly civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government in the Palestinian territory.
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The EU added on Tuesday to its list of “terrorists” Yahya Sinuar, head of Hamas, considered the architect of the attack, which implies the freezing of his possible assets in the bloc and the prohibition of his entry to any of its 27 member countries.
The Europeans already included two senior officials of the military wing of Hamas on this list of people or organizations considered “terrorists”: Mohamed Deif and Marwan Issa.
Hamas, as an organization, was already part of the list. In addition to the EU, the United States, Canada and Israel also consider it a “terrorist” organization.
