VOL. XLIV

No 50

10-December-2001

PALESTINE

Bush Freezes Assets Of PalestinianBanks And Charities With Alleged Hamas Links

US President George W Bushannounced 5 December that the US Treasury Department has frozen the US assetsof the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Islamic Bank and the Beit al-Mal financialinstitution in addition to the US-based charitable organization the Holy LandFoundation because they have suspected links to Hamas, the group that claimedresponsibility for the recent suicide bomb attacks in...