They still have the billions that Obama showered upon them, but it is good that Trump is now attempting to shut off the flow of money going to these jihadis.
“New Trump Crackdown Seeks to Sever Ties Between Iran, Palestinian Terrorists,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 31, 2018 4:40 pm
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday a slate of new sanctions on an Iranian-backed terror organization and its top allies in the Hamas movement, according to an announcement that is being viewed as part of an effort to disrupt the Islamic Republic’s terror networks operating on the border of Israel.
The sanctions target a lethal Iranian-funded terror outfit based in the Gaza Strip and West Bank territories that has, at Iran’s direction, targeted the Jewish state for terror attacks in recent years.
The Trump administration also slapped new sanctions on Ismail Haniyeh, one of the Hamas movement’s top political figures who has helped orchestrate and carry out terror attacks on Israel.
The new sanctions represent an effort by the Trump administration to sever the ties between Iran and Hamas militants operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which have served as a key plotting ground for militants seeking to target the Jewish state.
The latest round of sanctions target a little-known Iranian-backed terror cell known as Harakat al-Sabireen, which first made noticeable inroads in the Gaza strip in early 2016 with the backing of Hamas, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.
Al-Sabireen, which was established in 2014, is believed to receive as much as $10 million a year from Iran via smuggling routes built underground by Palestinian terrorists to facilitate illicit trade beneath the Gaza Strip.
Since taking root in Hamas-controlled territory near Israel, the terror outfit has waged multiple attacks against Israel and sought to bolster its numbers with Palestinian members of more well known terror groups, such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or PIJ.
Like Hezbollah, the Iranian-funded terror group that controls territory along Israel’s northern border, al-Sabireen is being used by the Islamic Republic to indirectly wage war on the Jewish state and foster unrest in the Palestinian territories.
Al-Sabireen is led by a former head of PIJ, which is designated as a terror organization by the United States.
In January 2016, the group bragged on social media about its ability to strike Israel and kill civilians. It also has made threats against the United States and other Western nations.
The Iranian-funded outfit has “planned and executed terrorist attacks include firing rockets into Israel in September 2015 and detonating an explosive device targeting an Israeli army patrol in December 2015,” according to information released by the State Department.
Al-Sabireen also was found to be operating a now-defunct rocket factory in Gaza that provided missiles to militants seeking to target Israeli civilians.
Further evidence of the militant group’s growing footprint in the Hamas-controlled territories was found after Palestinian security forces “arrested five Harakat al-Sabireen operatives who were working under Iranian orders and received funding in Gaza to carry out their attacks,” according to the State Department.
The organization is led by Hisham Salem, a former PIJ member who bragged in past interviews that the new Iranian-backed organization will deal a blow to Israel.
“We have an armed branch whose goal it is to wage war on the Israeli occupation everywhere,” Salem was quoted as saying in 2016. “Within this framework we have members in the West Bank and Jerusalem who will soon receive financial and military support from us.”
Meanwhile, the new sanctions on Hamas leader Haniyeh could help the United States disrupt the relationship between Iran and Palestinian terror outfits.
Haniyeh has close ties with Hamas’s armed military wing and has orchestrated scores of attacks on Israel, including some that have killed an estimated 17 Americans over the years….
R Russell says
Pray for Trump’s safety. He had put himself on the firing line.
gravenimage says
Trump administration puts new sanctions on Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamas top dog Ismail Haniyeh
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Bravo Donald Trump!
Andy says
+1
Brian says
Thank God we now have a president that does what he says, and means what he said.Bravo president Trump!
infidel says
I’m sure CAIR would be very (un) happy…… Who cares!!!
As I have said earlier: President Trump can become the absolute darling of the MSM if he starts appeasing Islamic terrorists and their sponsors like Obama did…..But then he cares for his country and his people and his land..
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Hamas is not à terrorist group, it is a resistance group against evil zionist murderers. people with conscience like Iran have to assist, whether savage mad devil Trump likes It or not. The days of zionist impunity are over. Idiot !!
StellaSaidSo says
‘…people with a conscience like Iran…’
…the world would be better off without.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, Israel is so evil that they allow people who have sworn eternal hatred and death towards them, to have their own wealthy towns and cities in more land than ever before, with better conditions than any other country within 1000 miles, while feeding ‘refugees’ whose own religious and ethnic ‘brothers’ lift not a finger to help, and permit the population of said enemies and refugees to increase far in advance of their own numbers, even while those same ingrates take every opportunity to do them harm, however petty, nasty and spiteful it might be.
Yes, truly, Israel is the bad guy here.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s funny how he has a picture on the wall that looks just like himself.
Politicianophobia says
Mad, Devil, Trump aka Devine Intervention.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
politicianophobia, Is Satan(holy spirit) who loves evil united states so much that he sent savage mad devil Trump who sexually assaults little girls to intervene ?
StellaSaidSo says
Ibrahim,
You have been asked several times to present evidence in support of your allegations of sexual assault by President Trump, and you have consistently failed to do so. Clearly, you are a liar and a hypocrite, as well as a bone-headed fool.
LeftisruiningCanada says
He said quite explicitly that he could prove it, and yet, shockingly, has not brought his proof for us to see.
I know you are shocked too. We all are.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The idea that a follower of mohammad is berating people for sexual acts with little girls is mind boggling.
henril jensen says
even though he is terrorist, he is linked to some state entity.. it is the 4. degree jihadis predetermined on nuclear attacking us we ought focus on rather.