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April 13, 2022

The U.S. Should Sanction Gaza’s Iran-Backed Popular Resistance Committees

In February, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) boasted of his organization’s recent attacks on Israel, and promised that they would continue until “the land and the holy sites are liberated.” Since its founding in 2000, the PRC, which receives funding and other support from Tehran, has committed numerous acts of murderous terrorism. Joe Truzman notes that it has nonetheless never been subject to U.S. sanctions, and urges the Biden administration to designate it as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

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