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He Department of Justice He is taking energetic measures against the Palestinian militant group with a new working group aimed at providing justice to the victims of Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel.
Attorney general Pam Bondi The group said, known as the joint task group on October 7, would focus on identifying, accusing and prosecuting those who made the attacks of 2023, which claimed the lives of approximately 1,200 people, including 47 US citizens. Hamas also received more than 250 people as hostages, including eight American citizens.
Specifically, the working group will investigate acts of terrorism and civil rights violations by those who have provided support and financially support Hamas, other related Iranian representatives and anti -Semitism of these groups.
“The barbarian terrorists of Hamas will not win, and there will be consequences,” Bondi said in a Monday statement.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the new task on March 17. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)
An anti -terrorist senior prosecutor of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice will direct the task force, together with a special FBI agent that serves as a commander of the task force, and an intelligence analyst of the FBI as an attached commander of the task force, according to the Department of Justice.
FBI agents, analysts, forensic counters, data scientists and linguists will serve in the working group and work to investigate and prosecute cases of domestic and extraterritorial terrorism. Similarly, the FBI will begin to embed the agents within the National Office of Financing against the Terror of Israel and coordinate with foreign counterparts with the FBI Legal Fixing Office in Israel under the force of task.
The efforts of the working group will expand to the continuing of the Department of Justice Research on those involved in the October 7 attack And advance the agency’s efforts to hold Hamas’ supporters, “said the Department of Justice in a press release.
The announcement of the Department of Justice of the new working group coincides with the arrest of the anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, who played an important role in the protests against Israel at the University of Columbia. Immigration and Customs Control Agents (ICE) of the United States took Khalil, a Palestinian raised in Syria and a permanent resident of the United States, to March 9.
The student of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested in March. The National Security Department said that Khalil “directed activities aligned with Hamas.” (Getty images)
The National Security Department said that Khalil “directed activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said the administration would revoke the green cards of any Hamas supporter in the United States and deported them.
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White House officials told Fox News Digital after Khalil’s arrest that the Department of Justice, the Department of National Security and the State Department are investigating Khalil as a possible threat of national security. The investigation has detected “anti -Semitic and odious” publications in Khalil’s social networks, and determined that he organized multiple anti -Semitic protests on the Columbia campus, officials said.
Meanwhile, Khalil’s lawyers have challenged the actions of the Trump administration and presented motions stating that ICE violated Khalil’s constitutional rights.
