The United States successfully blocked $100 million from getting to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. “Hamas is a terrorist group and we are doing all we can to achieve a financial blockade against Hamas, and every other terrorist group,” Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser, told leaders of the Orthodox Union in a meeting Thursday.
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