The US Justice Department has charged senior Hamas leaders in connection with the Oct 7, 2023, attack against Israel, according to court documents.

The indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, is part of ongoing efforts to hold individuals accountable for their involvement in the attack, reported Sputnik.
The documents revealed that among the five defendants facing seven charges is Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in late July in an Israeli strike on his home in Tehran while attending Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration.
“The Justice Department has charged Yahya Sinwar and other senior leaders of Hamas for financing, directing, and overseeing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the United States,” said Attorney-General Merrick Garland in the indictment.
The complaint stated that from around 1997 until the date of the complaint, Ismail, Yahya, Mohammad Al-Masri, Marwan Issa, Khaled Meshaal, Ali Baraka, and others conspired to provide material support or resources to Hamas, a group designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US secretary of state.
The defendants were accused of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation resulting in death, conspiracy to murder US nationals, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, among other charges.
They were also charged with financing terrorism and conspiring to bomb a public place.
Special FBI agent Paula Menges requested arrest warrants for all of the defendants, according to the document.
“The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last,” Garland added.