The charges made public on Tuesday, September 3, target “Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas officials for planning the terrorist organization’s campaign of mass violence and terror for several decades.”
The American justice system made public on Tuesday, September 3, the prosecution of six leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on charges of “terrorism.”
Six Hamas leaders, including its political leader Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated in Tehran on July 31 in an operation attributed to Israel, as well as its leader Yahya Sinwar, head of the movement in the Gaza Strip and considered the mastermind of the October 7 attack, are targeted by the charges issued on February 1.
“Dozens of American citizens” victims of Hamas
The charges target “Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas officials for planning the terrorist organization’s campaign of mass violence and terror over decades, including October 7,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a video statement released by his office.
“In its attacks over the past three decades, Hamas has murdered and injured thousands of civilians, including dozens of American citizens,” he said.
The unprecedented attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, which triggered the current war in the Gaza Strip, resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.
In response, Israel launched a major offensive in Gaza that has so far killed at least 40,819 people, according to Hamas’s health ministry, causing a humanitarian and health catastrophe and the displacement of almost all of the 2.4 million inhabitants. The majority of the dead are women and children, according to the UN.
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