(JNS) Washington is sanctioning eight Hamas officials and supporters, the U.S. Treasury and State Departments announced on Wednesday, Dec. 13.

“Hamas continues to rely heavily on networks of well-placed officials and affiliates, exploiting seemingly permissive jurisdictions to direct fundraising campaigns for the group’s benefit and funneling those illicit proceeds to support its military activities in Gaza,” stated Brian Nelson, U.S. under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

“We remain focused, as do our allies and partners, on leveraging our collective tools and authorities to degrade Hamas’s ability to fund additional attacks and further destabilize the region,” Nelson added.

The announcement was the fourth round of sanctions that Washington has imposed since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks.

Washington “closely coordinated this action with the United Kingdom, which is concurrently targeting several key Hamas officials with sanctions,” per the State Department.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control named the sanctioned, two of whom live in Gaza: Ismail Barhum, a member of the Gaza Strip political bureau who works with Hamas’s finance minister, and Nizar Awadallah, a Hamas board member.

Three of those sanctioned live in Turkey: Haroun Nasser Al-Din, who heads Hamas’s Jerusalem office; Jihad Yaghmour, Hamas’s official representative to Turkey (where he was exiled in exchange for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit); and Mehmet Kaya, who “has been involved in multiple money transfers on behalf of Hamas over several years, ultimately providing tens of millions of dollars of financial services for Hamas.”

Ali Baraka, of Lebanon, who heads Hamas’s national relations abroad; Maher Obeid, of Lebanon, a senior Hamas political leader; and Hassan Al-Wardian, of Bethlehem, a senior Hamas official, were also sanctioned.