Regarding the situation in Israel and Palestine, the Japanese government has added two people and four organizations responsible for fundraising and asset management to the asset freeze target in order to strengthen efforts to cut off the Islamic organization Hamas's source of income. decided to impose additional sanctions.
The government strongly condemns attacks and kidnappings targeting civilians by the Islamic organization Hamas and others as terrorist attacks, and has emphasized that it does not approve of them.So far, the government has frozen the assets of 12 Hamas executives. sanctions have been imposed.
At the cabinet meeting on the 30th, Japan's position was clarified once again, and in order to strengthen efforts to cut off Hamas's income sources, the two new fund raisers and four asset management organizations will be subject to asset freezes. We have decided to impose additional sanctions such as:
At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi said, ``We have added assets to the list of assets to be frozen in order to cut off Hamas's funding source and prevent the creation of loopholes for the flow of terrorist funds.We will continue to need to further designate Hamas-related persons. We will consider gender issues in a timely and appropriate manner."