Washington: The US State Department on Friday declared a senior commander of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Abu Anas al-Ghandour, a "specially designated global terrorist," adding his name to its economic sanctions blacklist.
The State Department said Ghandour is a former Hamas Shura council and political bureau member who now leads a Hamas brigade in Gaza.
Ghandour "has been involved in many terrorist operations," it said, including a 2006 attack on an Israeli military outpost at the Kerem Shalom border crossing which left two Israeli soldiers dead and four wounded.
Ghandour was also one of the targets of a March 2015 lawsuit in the United States by 26 Americans and dual Israeli-American citizens against Hamas for alleged war crimes during the 2014 war between Israel and Gaza.
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