The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Lebanon-based Green Without Borders organization and its leader for providing support to Hizballah.
“Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury?’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Lebanon-based Green Without Borders and its leader,” the department said in a press release.
“Green Without Borders is a Lebanon-based organization that has provided support to and cover for Hizballah?’s operations in southern Lebanon along the ‘Blue Line’ between Lebanon and Israel over the last decade while publicly operating under the guise of environmental activism,” it added.
“The United States rejects Hizballah?’s cynical efforts to cloak its destabilizing terrorist activities with false environmentalism,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson in a press statement.
“We will continue to support the many Lebanese civil society groups protecting Lebanon?’s unique and sensitive natural environment while also relentlessly pursuing Hizballah and their support networks,” he added
Source: Kuwait News Agency