LONDON (Reuters) – A bank account at British bank Barclays linked to fundraising for the Palestinian militant group Hamas has been frozen, Israeli police said.
Hamas launched a surprise attack from Gaza into Israel on Saturday in one of the most serious escalations in the Israel-Palestinian conflict in years.
The Israeli police said in a statement on Tuesday that its cyber unti worked with British police to freeze a Barclays bank account linked to Hamas.
The bank account’s details were published by Hamas “for the purpose of depositing donation funds”, the statement said.
A spokesperson for Barclays declined to comment on the freezing of the account, or confirm the accuracy of the detail in the police statement.
Israel has also frozen cryptocurrency accounts used to solicit donations for Hamas, the statement said.
(Reporting by Henriette Chacar in Jerusalem, writing and additional reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft and Sinead Cruise in London, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
