Today, Friday, the European Union added the names of the Commander-in-Chief of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Muhammad al-Deif, and his deputy, Marwan Issa, to the terrorism list, and imposed economic sanctions on them.
Brussels announced, according to the statement issued by the European Council, that “the two individuals are subject to freezing their funds and other financial assets in European Union member states,” noting that “European Union operators are also prohibited from providing funds and economic resources to them.”
Last Tuesday, the French government decided to freeze the assets of the leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for a period of 6 months, starting from the time the decree was issued.
The French newspaper Le Parisien reported that London imposed sanctions, including an asset freeze and a travel ban, on 6 individuals, 4 Hamas leaders, including Muhammad al-Deif and Yahya al-Sinwar, and two accused of financing the movement.
This comes against the backdrop of the operation carried out by the resistance factions on the seventh of last October, called the “Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood,” on the settlements in the “Gaza envelope” area, which led to at least 1,200 Israeli deaths on the first day of the attack, according to the Israeli authorities.
The Israeli army responded to the operation with a comprehensive siege and a widespread aggression against the Gaza Strip with air bombardment, followed by a ground operation that began on October 27, and this aggression, as of Thursday evening, resulted in the martyrdom of more than 17,177 martyrs, and the wounding of 46,000 Palestinians, most of them Of children and women.