



The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on five Hamas financiers or anything leading to the disruption of the Palestinian terror group’s financial mechanisms, the State Department said Friday.
The reward offering follows four rounds of US sanctions on Hamas after the group’s terror onslaught incursion into Israel on October 7 that killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and saw some 240 people taken hostage.
The five are Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Khair, Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah and Muhammad Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Dayim Nasrallah, who have all been previously designated global terrorists by the United States, the department says in a statement.
The first financier, known as Hamza, is based in Sudan, has managed numerous companies in Hamas’ investment portfolio and was involved in the transfer of almost $20 million to Hamas, the department said. He is tied to former Sudanese president Omar Bashir and Islamist groups undermining stability in Sudan, according to the State Department.
Three of the Hamas operatives cited — Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, and Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah — are part of the group’s investment network in Turkey, the department said.
Nasrallah has close ties to Iranian entities and has been involved in the transfer of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, including its military wing, the agency said, adding that he was based in Qatar in October.
The rewards would be provided for information on any source of revenue for Hamas, major donors, financial institutions that facilitate transactions for Hamas, front companies that procure dual-use technology for the group and criminal schemes that benefit Hamas, the State Department said.
Last month, The New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence obtained comprehensive details on vast Hamas financial operations in 2018 but did nothing to shut them down and stem the flow of funds to the terror group.
These same funds were likely key to Hamas’s preparations for the deadly October 7 attacks, the report said, citing Israeli and American officials.
The report detailed documents found on the computer of a senior Hamas official that listed assets around the world worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The papers pointed to Sudanese companies owned by Hamas that dealt in mining, chicken farming and road construction, two skyscrapers owned by the group in the United Arab Emirates and other property-related business ventures in Algeria and Turkey.
Despite having access to the documents, and a potential path toward cutting off Hamas funds, nothing was done. Both Israel and the US operated under the assumption that Hamas was more interested in ruling the Strip than in conflict with Israel, and focused instead on implementing sanctions against Iran.