DOJ Confirms $560,000 Crypto Seizure Tied to Hamas Fundraising Sites

The Department of Justice says the FBI has seized $560,000 worth of cryptocurrency tied to Hamas’ military wing, alongside the domains and servers the group allegedly used to solicit donations. Two independent outlets, Decrypt and CoinDesk, reported the figure and the seizure of the fundraising infrastructure, making the core numbers here confirmed rather than single-sourced.

What Two Sources Confirm

Both reports agree on the same headline number: $560,000 in digital assets seized. Both also describe the FBI taking control of domains and servers previously used to collect donations, with Alqassam.ps named as one of the sites brought under federal control.

The sites are described as tools used by the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, to gather funds and recruit supporters online. By seizing the domains rather than just freezing wallets, the FBI can redirect or shut down traffic that once flowed to the fundraising pages, cutting off a channel rather than a single transaction.

Why Domain Seizure Matters More Than the Dollar Figure

$560,000 is a modest sum against the size of global crypto markets. It is not modest as a case study in how law enforcement disrupts crypto fundraising by sanctioned groups. Taking over the underlying domains and servers, not just the wallets, means any future visitor to those addresses hits federal infrastructure instead of a donation page.

This is a pattern regulators have used before against ransomware operators and other blacklisted actors: seize the wallet, then seize the front door. For crypto exchanges and compliance teams, it is a reminder that on-chain freezes are only half the enforcement toolkit.

What Remains Unclear

Neither report, based on the material available, specifies which blockchains or wallet addresses held the $560,000, how long the fundraising network had been operating, or how many domains beyond Alqassam.ps were taken over. Exact seizure dates and the exchanges or custodians involved were also not detailed in either account.

Until the DOJ releases a fuller filing or press statement with those specifics, the $560,000 figure and the domain takeover stand as the two data points that both independent reports converge on. Everything else, including the precise scope of the network, remains a single-sourced or unconfirmed detail worth flagging rather than repeating as settled fact.

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Sources

• decrypt.co
• coindesk.com