Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, announced, on Tuesday, that his government is set to freeze assets and impose sanctions on payments and capital transactions on three senior Hamas members allegedly involved in the October 7 operation, Al-Aqsa Flood.

According to The Iran Project,Hayashi argued that the three leaders, who remained unnamed, were in a position to use the funds to finance alleged "terrorist activities."

This comes after Japan had previously, in October, imposed sanctions on nine people and a company claiming they had Hamas links.

It is worth noting that the sanctions come in accordance with the US sanctions imposed on Hamas members, alongside sanctions on other Palestinian liberation movements and those that support them.

Earlier, on December 13, the US Treasury released a statement noting the imposing of sanctions against "key Hamas officials." The release included the names of: Ismail Musa Ahmad Barhum (Ismail Barhum) from Gaza; Haroun Mansour Yaqoub Nasser Al-Din (Haroun Nasser Al-Din) based in Turkey; Ali Abed Al Rahman Baraka (Ali Baraka) situated in Lebanon; Jihad Muhammad Shaker Yaghmour (Jihad Yaghmour), Hamas's representative in Turkey; Maher Rebhi Obeid (Maher Obeid) located in Lebanon; Nizar Mohammed Awadallah (Nizar Awadallah) associated with Gaza; Hassan Al-Wardian, a senior Hamas official in Beit Lahm(West Bank); and Mehmet Kaya, based in Turkey.

At the time, the US claimed that "Hamas continues to rely heavily on networks of well-placed officials and affiliates, exploiting seemingly permissive jurisdictions to direct fundraising campaigns for the group’s benefit, and funneling those illicit proceeds to support its military activities in Gaza."