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A Michigan-based humanitarian organization whose board includes the father of U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed previously supported a Gaza charity whose leadership included operatives of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an Israeli-designated terrorist organization that participated in the October 7, 2023 massacre. Bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate would impose sanctions on the PRC and require a review of its eligibility for U.S. terrorist designation.
A July 2019 investigation by Israel’s Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center identified Life for Relief and Development (LIFE) as a supporter of Generosity Without Limit Association. The report documented extensive overlap between the Gaza charity’s leadership and the PRC, alongside evidence that humanitarian assistance distributed by the association also reached the terrorist faction.
The Washington Free Beacon reported on October 28 that El-Sayed’s father, Dr. Mohammed El-Sayed, an Eastern Michigan University engineering professor and imam, serves on LIFE’s board. Federal tax records establish his board membership since at least 2020, following the Gaza activities documented in the Israeli investigation.
Gaza Charity Operated Within Terrorist Faction’s Network
The Israeli report identified Generosity Without Limit’s general manager, Nairab, as a senior PRC operative in Rafah. Al-Nairab also headed the Bloc of the Bunyan Institutions for Charitable Activity, which investigators described as a network of charitable organizations affiliated with the PRC. The network included Generosity Without Limit and at least two other Gaza associations.
The investigation identified multiple additional leadership connections.
Generosity Without Limit chairman Muhammad Hilmi al-Arkan reportedly participated in a PRC delegation in February 2019. Deputy chairman Nihad al-Dahoudi appeared at ceremonies organized by the faction, including a memorial for an operative of its armed wing, where he wore a PRC insignia.
The association’s secretary, Munzir Shaqliya, had previously been identified as a senior PRC figure. Its public-relations official, Jibril Awda al-Soufi, was described as a senior PRC member who participated in a leadership delegation meeting the faction’s secretary-general.
These findings led Israeli researchers to characterize Generosity Without Limit as closely affiliated with the PRC, rather than merely sharing occasional activities with its members.
LIFE-Branded Aid and Distributions Through the PRC
The investigation also documented LIFE’s support for projects operated by Generosity Without Limit. Photographs from September 2017 show LIFE’s name and logo at a meat-distribution project organized by the Gaza charity. Additional photographs published on May 30, 2019, show senior association personnel standing alongside LIFE-branded food packages intended for Ramadan distribution.
Separately, on May 16, 2019, Generosity Without Limit published photographs of food packages distributed in Rafah. The PRC published identical photographs that day while announcing distributions to families of its dead and wounded operatives.
Israeli investigators interpreted the matching photographs as evidence that humanitarian assistance supplied to Generosity Without Limit was being distributed through the PRC. The report alleged that some humanitarian resources received by the association supported the faction’s armed apparatus.
October 7 Terror Group Faces Congressional Sanctions Proposal
The Popular Resistance Committees, whose armed wing is known as the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, was designated a terrorist organization by Israel in September 2006. The PRC participated in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, claiming responsibility for operations that included capturing Israeli soldiers, according to congressional findings.
In March 2025, Republican Senator Pete Ricketts and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff introduced the bipartisan Accountability for Terrorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act, seeking sanctions against the PRC and associated entities and a review of its U.S. terrorism-designation status. It was also introcuced in the House by Congressman Brad Sherman.
The joint legislation also cites the PRC’s involvement in a 2003 attack on an American diplomatic convoy that killed three U.S. security guards and the 2004 murder of Israeli mother Tali Hatuel and her four daughters.
Additional Partnerships With Charities Later Linked to Hamas Financing
Jewish Onliner’s review identified two other historical LIFE partnerships not previously reported in relation to El-Sayed. Both involved charities that later faced government action over alleged financial support for Hamas-linked organizations.
German Charity Banned Over Hamas Support
A historical LIFE organizational profile records a partnership beginning in 2005 with Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation (IHH), a Germany-based charity subsequently banned in 2010 over financial support for Hamas-linked organizations.
In October 2023, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the legality of the prohibition. The judgment detailed approximately €2.5 million in financial support provided by IHH to Hamas-linked social organizations between 2006 and 2010, representing roughly half its funding activities. The court upheld German findings that IHH knowingly supported international terrorism, directly or indirectly.
The German organization was distinct from the Turkish humanitarian organization also known as İHH. LIFE’s historical profile identifies the German organization specifically, although it does not disclose the partnership’s financial value or duration.
Earlier Partnership With Qatar Charity
The same historical profile records the beginning of LIFE’s partnership with Qatar Charity in 2003.
Israel banned Qatar Charity, then known as the Qatar Charitable Society, in 2008, identifying it as a member of the Union of Good, a network accused of channeling financial support to Hamas. The connection was also described in U.S. federal court proceedings involving allegations of terrorism financing against Qatar Charity.
Monthes later, the U.S. Treasury designated the Union of Good as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, identifying it as a network established by Hamas leadership to facilitate transfers to Hamas-controlled organizations, including payments supporting Hamas members and families of terrorist operatives
Previous U.S. Sanctions Settlement
LIFE’s overseas activities previously attracted federal scrutiny. As the Free Beacon reported, the organization agreed in 2015 to pay $780,000 to settle potential civil liability for apparent violations of U.S. sanctions on Saddam Hussein-era Iraq.
The Treasury Department’s enforcement notice identified three transfers totaling $236,000 between September 2002 and March 2003, routed through Jordan into Iraq despite restrictions on such transactions.
The historical records examined by Jewish Onliner extend the picture of LIFE’s overseas relationships beyond those Iraq transactions.
They document support for a Gaza charity embedded, according to Israeli investigators, within the organizational network of a terrorist faction that later participated in the October 7 massacre, alongside earlier partnerships with a German charity subsequently banned over Hamas financing and Qatar Charity, which Israel identified as part of the Hamas-linked Union of Good network. Mohammed El-Sayed, the father of a U.S. Senate candidate, serves on the charity’s board.