DOJ Charges Director of Unnamed "Sham Charity" for Supporting Hamas. I Found It, and It's Based in the UK
Based on financial filings and Hasna's own LinkedIn profile, it's clear that the "charity" in question is the Al-Khair Foundation. The IDF identified its ties to Hamas over two years ago.
Over the weekend, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed a complaint against Mohammad Yousef Hasna, a Turkish national who also goes by Orhan Korkmaz and Abu Al-Baraa, accusing him of funneling money and supplies to Hamas through what the complaint calls simply a “Sham Charity.” Neither the full complaint nor the Justice Department’s own announcement names the organization. I thought I’d rectify that.
Cross-referencing the complaint’s details against UK Charity Commission filings and public records points to one organization, Al-Khair Foundation, a UK-registered charity headquartered in Croydon. The complaint says the charity was founded around 2003, pivoted from Islamic education into emergency relief in 2005, and bought a television network in 2009 to raise its profile.
Al-Khair’s own history matches those milestones, and the money lines up too. Charity Commission filings show gross income of £31.28 million for the year ending July 2023 and £60.98 million the year after, which convert almost exactly to the $41.8 million and $81.56 million the complaint cites for those same two years.
Hilariously enough, Hasna confirmed it himself via his LinkedIn profile, which lists him as Global Director of country offices at Al-Khair Foundation, and a bio he wrote years ago describes his prior job as Gaza Coordination Office Director at the OIC’s Humanitarian Affairs Department, the exact post the complaint says he held before joining the charity.
Israeli Intelligence Already Flagged Al-Khair
The Israeli military put Al-Khair’s name on this directly, over two years before this indictment existed. A July 2024 IDF release said it had killed Hossam Mansour, a platoon commander in Hamas’ Internal Security Forces, and named him in the same statement as one of the directors of Al-Khair Foundation, which it said transfers funds to terrorist groups under cover of humanitarian work.
A second Al-Khair figure, Adham Abu Salmiya, the foundation’s marketing director in Istanbul, spent years before that as a spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and describes himself in his own biography as a supporter of armed resistance.
Ties to the UN, Because of Course
Naturally, Al-Khair is also closely tied to the Hamas-infested UNRWA. In 2015, at a ceremony in Brussels, Al-Khair signed a memorandum of understanding with UNRWA and handed over an initial £500,000 contribution, worth about $777,000 at the time, arriving right as UNRWA faced a funding shortfall threatening to delay opening its schools that year. Schools — might I remind you — that teach jihad, antisemitism, and violence. UNRWA touted Al-Khair as “among the largest Muslim charities in the UK.”
U.S.-Based Nonprofit Collaborating with Al-Khair?
What should matter most to American readers is that the DOJ complaint quotes Hasna discussing a plan to route purchases through an unnamed charity headquartered in the United States, which would buy goods and resell them to Al-Khair.
The complaint doesn’t name that charity. But it’s highly concerning that there is an American organization in the picture that knew full well about Al-Khair’s ties and kept working with them anyways. I hope they’re on the FBI’s radar as well.