{"id":7285,"date":"2025-12-27T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:19:34","slug":"nine-arrested-in-italy-for-allegedly-raising-millions-for-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Nine arrested in Italy for allegedly raising millions for Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italian police have arrested nine people accused of raising around \u20ac7m (\u00a36m) for Hamas over more than two years.<\/p>\n

The money was ostensibly collected as humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, a police statement said, but was instead sent to the militant group via a “complex fundraising system”.<\/p>\n

Alongside the arrests, police say they have seized more than \u20ac8m (\u00a37m) in assets as part of the investigation. <\/p>\n

Police say the suspects are “specifically accused of carrying out financing operations believed to have contributed to terrorist activities”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The arrests were made as part of a joint initiative between Italy’s counter-terror police and financial police.<\/p>\n

The investigation began after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack in southern Israel. <\/p>\n

Police say they analysed “a series of reports of suspicious financial transactions” involving some of the suspects in the lead up to the attack.<\/p>\n

Investigators uncovered a “complex” system of fundraising, which was headquartered in Genoa with branches in Milan, the statement adds.<\/p>\n

“The suspects collected donations intended for the civilian population of Gaza, however, it emerged that over 71% of these funds were diverted to Hamas’s coffers to finance its military wing and support the families of suicide bombers or those detained for terrorism,” the police statement says.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said the most well-known of the arrested suspects was Mohammad Hannoun, the president of the Palestinian Association in Italy.<\/p>\n

Mr Hannoun has previously described allegations he is a financier of Hamas as a “lie”. <\/p>\n

Piantedosi thanked police for their work in a post on X, but also noted that “the presumption of innocence… must always be recognised at this stage”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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