Italy Arrests Nine Over Alleged Hamas Funding Through Charities
28th December 2025
Italian prosecutors said on Saturday they had arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas terrorists through charities based in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units.
The suspects are accused of “belonging to and having financed” the Palestinian terrorist group, which ?the European Union designates as a terrorist organization, prosecutors in ?the northern Italian city of Genoa said in a statement.
Those arrested allegedly diverted to Hamas-linked entities around 7 million euros ($8.2 ?million) raised over the last two years for ostensibly humanitarian purposes, prosecutors said. Police seized assets worth more than 8 million euros.