Sanctions Bill Reintroduced on Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Reps. Brian Mast, R-Fla., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., recently reintroduced a bill that would require the administration to send Congress a report identifying any foreign person or agency that “knowingly assists in, sponsors, or provides significant financial or material support…
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for, or financial or other services to” Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The report also should identify senior members of those two groups. The bill would require a number of sanctions on those people and groups, including no exports of controlled technologies, and says that the executive branch could block all financial transactions with the people and groups, if it chooses. A previous effort to hike sanctions on those supporting Hamas passed the House in 2019.