A Netherlands man was sentenced to three years in prison for transferring funds to Hamas-affiliated organizations, the Public Prosecution Service announced on Tuesday.
The 58-year-old Leidschendam man transferred approximately 8 million euros from 2010 until 2023 in cooperation with the ISRAA Foundation, leading to a sentence of four years’ prison with one year suspended.
The PPS said the convicted terrorist financier played “a leading and decisive role in the collection and the ultimate destination of the funds” and knowingly evaded sanctions “using intermediary structures to channel money to Hamas.”
Alongside the ISRAA Foundation, which was sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in June for Hamas ties, the suspect had misled financial institutions by acting as if he had no involvement with the foundation.
The ISRAA Foundation, according to OFAC, is a member of the US-sanctioned organization Union of Good, which allegedly reports directly to Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades military wing and raises funds for the terrorist group in the guise of charities. ISRAA Foundation’s representatives Amin Ghazi Abu Rashed and Israa Abouo Rashed are allegedly both Hamas operatives.
The PPS said that the convicted suspect had continued the terrorism finance activities of another sanctioned foundation, the Al Aqsa Foundation, through the ISRAA Foundation. They continued Al Aqsa’s activities from 2003, the year OFAC sanctioned the group. Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Britain, Luxembourg, and Switzerland also took action against what was alleged to be a Hamas front.
The group had been based in Germany, and its director, Mahmoud Amr, was allegedly a Hamas activist. Foundation employees in Denmark, Germany, and Norway were charged with funding Hamas.ย ย
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