U.S. Treasury Sanctions Four Individuals Linked to Pro-Hamas Flotilla

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four individuals associated with a pro-Hamas flotilla attempting to reach Gaza, the department said in a May 19 statement. The flotilla is organized by the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad, which the United States has classified as a specially designated global terrorist.

The Treasury stated that the PCPA was established with funding from Hamas's International Relations Bureau and that Hamas directs its activity through officials placed throughout the organization.

The four sanctioned individuals include a Spanish member of the PCPA's General Secretariat who is a central figure of the flotilla, the acting secretary general and president of the PCPA from Jordan, a Belgium-based European coordinator for the Samidoun organization, and a Samidoun coordinator from Spain.

Samidoun is a front organization for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the State Department has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The Treasury said both the PCPA and Samidoun act on behalf of sanctioned Palestinian terrorist organizations.

OFAC also sanctioned several members of Muslim Brotherhood networks aligned with Hamas. S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC.

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Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, according to a May 19 statement from the office of Sen. Tom Cotton. In February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning funding for UNRWA. In a May 18 letter to Trump, Cotton and 24 colleagues asked the administration to take decisive action to fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the UN budget.

UNRWA has dismissed allegations of ties to Hamas.