Hamas military wing told donors to avoid sending crypto directly from Binance, DOJ filing shows
Hamas’ military wing advised donors not to use Binance to handle funds but rather to use Trust Wallet, Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay to send funds to an external TRON wallet, according to recent U.S. Department of Justice documents.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, told potential donors that it would prefer if they didn’t use Binance to transfer funds to the militant group’s wallet, according to documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).
Instead, it listed Trust Wallet, Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay as applications donors could use to transfer funds to an external TRON wallet. The wallet receiving the donations was an external address on the TRON blockchain and was not identified in the filing as belonging to any of those companies.
The Al-Qassam Brigades letter, which appears in full in a DoJ asset-seizure warrant, advised using Tether’s USDT stablecoin and the TRC-20 network, which is used to create and manage fungible tokens on the Tron blockchain.
The U.S had refocused its counterterrorist financing efforts with regard to Hamas, particularly in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel perpetrated by the terrorist group.