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Germany Bans Turkish Charity for Aiding Hamas
(Financial Times-UK) Daniel Schafer - Germany's interior ministry on Monday banned a Frankfurt-based organization that it accuses of funneling money to Hamas. German authorities raided 29 sites of the International Humanitarian Relief Organization, which is accused of having collected and sent 6.6m pounds to groups close to Hamas. "Under the cover of humanitarian aid, the IHH has been supporting for a long time and with considerable financial resources so-called social groups which have to be seen as connected to Hamas," said Thomas de Maiziere, Germany's interior minister. A separate Turkish organization with the acronym IHH led the Gaza flotilla. IHH Turkey and IHH Germany share the same roots, as they were founded as a single group in Freiburg, Germany, in 1992. But the group split in two five years later.