Israel Seized Crypto Accounts Linked to ISIS and Hamas

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State (ISIS), and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian Arab firms connected to Hamas, Reuters reported Thursday, citing documents released by the country’s counter-terror authorities. Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) on January 12 confiscated two Binance accounts and their contents, one of the documents showed. The seizure was to “thwart the activity” of Islamic State and “impair its ability to further its goals,” the NBCTF said on its website. The NBCTF document, which…