Canada announced on Wednesday new sanctions aimed at combating the terrorist activities of Hamas and its financing circles. 

In addition, Ottawa, in coordination with Australia and the US, imposed sanctions on five senior Iranian officials for their role in promoting policies of repression and discrimination that led to the suppression of protests in blood.

These latest sanctions come as it marks two years since the death at the hands of morality police of Mahsha Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdish minority, after she was arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress code imposed on women in the Islamic Republic.

The sanctions on Hamas concern 11 individuals and two entities that play a role in the terrorist organization’s financing network and, according to Ottawa, contributed to the planning and execution of the October 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel.

The sanctions were announced as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held talks on Wednesday with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, which, along with Egypt and the US, has been mediating indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas at war, for almost a year now.

Mr. Trudeau expressed his deep concern about the danger of the spread of war, the threatened outbreak of conflict between Israel and Iran, as well as Hezbollah and other organizations aligned with Iran, his services said.

Source: AMNA

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