JAKARTA - The United States Department of the Treasury (Depkeu) has officially sanctioned four people for their alleged involvement with the flotilla fleet heading to the Gaza Strip. But there are no details of the sanctions imposed.
"Today, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against four individuals related to the pro-Hamas fleet, organized by the Palestinian People's Advocacy Organization Abroad (PCPA), for attempting to enter Gaza to support Hamas," said the US Treasury in a press release on Tuesday, May 19, reported by ANTARA from Sputnik.
The sanctions were imposed on Saif Hashim Kamel Abukishe as the organizing committee, Hisham Abdallah Sulayman Abu Mahfuz as the general secretary and president of the PCPA, Mohammed Khatib as the European coordinator in Belgium for fundraising on the Samidoun platform, and Jaldia Abubakra Aueda as Samidoun's coordinator in Spain.
Additional sanctions were also imposed for the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, the Egyptian-based Hasm Movement, as well as the Hamas group, the department said. The convoy of the fleet, which was carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, departed from Barcelona on April 15.
Then, on April 29-30, the activists of the flotilla stated that Israeli forces seized their ships near the island of Crete in Greece and damaged their engines and navigation systems. The organizer of the humanitarian convoy said that their fleet was surrounded and became the target of forced interception by Israeli warships in international waters, which are about 250 nautical miles from the Gaza coast.
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