The Obama administration has placed a Gaza-based extremist group on several terrorism blacklists, freezing any assets it may have in US jurisdictions and barring Americans from transactions with it.
The departments of State and Treasury announced today they had designated the group, Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, a "foreign terrorist organisation" as well as a "specially designated global terrorist" entity.
The council is an umbrella organisation for a number of groups that have claimed responsibility for multiple rocket attacks on Israel since 2012, according to the State Department.
It has also declared its support for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, the department said.
