Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of the militant group’s political bureau, reportedly “lives in luxury” in Qatar and controls assets across the Middle East.
The top Hamas political leader oversees a vast financial network while living hundreds of miles from the, often travelling freely to represent the militant group before world leaders across the region.
“Haniyeh is really important – he is one of the bin Ladens in this story,” said Mark Wallace, chief executive of United Against Nuclear Iran and a former official in the George W Bush administration. “It’s wrong that he’s living in Qatar in luxury, seemingly beyond our reach. Qatar must turn him over.”
“The United States Treasury Department is laser-focused today on dismantling Hamas’ financial networks,” Wally Adeyemo, the deputy treasury secretary, told the Royal United Services Institute, a foreign policy think tank, in London. “. . . Hamas and associated terrorist groups have long sought to destroy Israel and attack those in the region and around the world that do not ascribe to their hate-filled ideology. These groups need financial resources to help fuel their hate.
“One of the things that stands out from Treasury’s designations is that they all operate under the command of the Hamas political leadership, including Haniyeh,” said Levitt, of the Washington Institute. “All of the Treasury designations make clear they answer to the political bureau” that Haniyeh chairs.
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