BRUSSELS: The European Union on Tuesday added Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar to its “terrorist” sanctions blacklist over the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The move means that the accused mastermind of the attacks is subject to an asset freeze in the 27-nation bloc and bans EU citizens conducting transactions with him.
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is already listed as a “terrorist” organization by the EU.
The October attacks, the worst in Israel’s history, that resulted in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Militants also dragged about 250 hostages back to Gaza, 132 of whom Israel says are still in the Palestinian territory, including at least 25 believed to have been killed.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz welcomed the move in a statement.
The decision is a result of “our diplomatic efforts to strangle the resources of the Hamas, to delegitimize them and prohibit all support to them. We will continue to eradicate the root of evil, in Gaza and wherever it raises its head,” Katz said.
Sinwar, 61, has not been seen since October 7.
After the attacks, Israel’s military declared Sinwar a “dead man walking.”
The Hamas chief was added to the US list of the most wanted “international terrorists” in 2015, as was Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, who is another alleged October 7 mastermind.
The EU has struggled for a united response to the Hamas’s attacks and Israel’s subsequent devastating offensive in the Gaza Strip.
At least 24,285 Palestinians, about 70 percent of them women, children and adolescents, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli bombardments and ground operations since October 7, according to the Hamas government.
EU adds Hamas Gaza leader Sinwar to ‘terrorist’ list
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EU adds Hamas Gaza leader Sinwar to ‘terrorist’ list
- The move means that the accused mastermind of the attacks is subject to an asset freeze in the 27-nation bloc
- Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is already listed as a “terrorist” organization by the EU
UK sanctions RSF commanders over links to mass killings in Sudan
- The government also pledged a further £21 million to provide food, shelter, health services, and protection for women and children
LONDON: Britain sanctioned senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Friday, over what it said were their links to mass killings, systematic sexual violence and deliberate attacks on civilians in the African country.
Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, the RSF Deputy Leader and brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, as well as three other commanders that are suspected of involvement in these crimes, now face asset freezes and travel bans, the British government said.
“The atrocities taking place in Sudan are so horrific they scar the conscience of the world,” foreign minister Yvette Cooper said in the statement. “Today’s sanctions against RSF commanders strike directly at those with blood on their hands.”
The government also pledged a further £21 million to provide food, shelter, health services, and protection for women and children in some of the hardest-to-reach areas, the statement said.
Millions of people have been displaced by the war, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the RSF.
