While living hundreds of kilometres from the chaos and violence in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh travels freely to represent Hamas before world leaders across the region.
The top Hamas political leader oversees a vast financial network while living hundreds of kilometres from the chaos and violence in Gaza, often travelling freely to represent the terrorist group before world leaders across the region.
“Haniyeh is really important - he is one of the bin Ladens in this story,” said Mark Wallace, chief executive of United Against Nuclear Iran and a former official in the George W. Bush administration. “It’s wrong that he’s living in Qatar in luxury, seemingly beyond our reach. Qatar must turn him over.”
It is unclear exactly how much Haniyeh knew about the attack, with experts divided over the extent to which Hamas’s political wing controls its military leadership, which is based in Gaza. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, speaks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, on October 31.Israel and Egypt have imposed a strict blockade in Gaza since Hamas took over the territory in 2007 after a struggle with Fatah, the political party that controls the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank - which makes smuggling lucrative. These restrictions have also hurt average citizens in Gaza, choking Palestinians off from the international economic system.
Levitt also said Treasury should go further by imposing penalties that would cut off from the US financial system entities that work with Hamas - penalties that it already applies to Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed political party in Lebanon and its military arm. In a video released shortly after the October 7 attack, Haniyeh and a group of about a dozen men gathered to pray on the floor while images of the massacre played on television.Credit:Treasury officials have repeatedly accused Hamas’s top leadership of enjoying lavish lifestyles outside of Gaza while average Palestinians suffer the consequences of the militant group’s actions.
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