Overview
- A three-count federal complaint in the Southern District of New York was unsealed on July 31, 2026, charging Mohammad Yousef Hasna with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas and related terrorism-financing offenses, and he was arrested in the United Kingdom that day.
- The complaint alleges Hasna used his role as global director of a purported international charity known in filings as the Sham Charity to raise, move, store and deliver cash and supplies into Gaza at the direction of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad.
- U.S. prosecutors describe specific tactics they say were used to conceal deliveries, including transporting goods by truck from Egypt, routing shipments to warehouses controlled by charity officials, misrepresenting recipients as a Gaza ministry, and distributing items to lists provided by Hamas.
- The Sham Charity reported a near-doubling of gross income from about $41.8 million in FY2023 to about $81.56 million in FY2024 and said it spent roughly $91 million in the year ending July 31, 2025, figures the complaint cites as financial red flags but that do not by themselves prove criminality.
- The Justice Department credited assistance from U.K. authorities and the Israeli Security Agency and said the case will be prepared for prosecution in New York where each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.