The US Treasury Department sanctioned the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association in 2016; however, this was largely ineffective.

BEIRUT — Israel’s military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and will attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and

Hassan, a U.S.-sanctioned bank that the Israeli military says is central to Hezbollah’s economic functioning.