Police officers inspect a charitable association supporting Palestinian civilians in Milan, Italy, on Dec. 27, 2025 after Italian investigators have arrested nine people suspected of raising millions of euros for Hamas. Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP
Italian authorities have arrested nine people on suspicion of financing the Hamas terrorist organization 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.
