Italy Arrests 9 for Allegedly Using Charities to Fund Hamas Terrorists

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni inside 10 Downing Street ahead of a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss a wide range of issues including migration, Ukraine, and European security, in London, England, on March 2, 2025. Ben Whitley – WPA Pool/Getty ImagesItalian authorities have arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas through a network of charities operating in Italy, prosecutors and police said on Dec. 27, in an investigation that uncovered what officials described as a large-scale diversion of donations meant to help the Palestinian people but that instead flowed to terrorists.Prosecutors in the northern city of Genoa said the suspects are accused of “belonging to and having financed” Hamas. The arrests followed a two-year investigation that traced the alleged diversion of funds raised for ostensibly humanitarian purposes to entities linked to the terror group.