The Italian government announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of financing Hamas with more than €7 million through a number of charitable associations. The operation, led by the Genoa Public Prosecutor’s Office and supported by the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate, the State Police, the Finance Police, and AISE, targeted the president of the Association of Palestinians in Italy, Mohammad Mahmoud Ahmad Hannoun, who investigators described as a member of Hamas’s foreign branch and the head of its Italian cell. President Giorgia Meloni, speaking on 27 December 2025, expressed gratitude to the agencies involved for making the operation possible. The arrests were part of an ongoing counter‑terrorism effort aimed at disrupting foreign terrorist financing.
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