¤Sanctions on Ali Hassan Khalil and Youssef Fenianos

On 8 September 2020 Washington sanctioned the former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil (Amal) and Youssef Fenianos (Marada) on the charge of providing services to Hezbollah; the first sanctions on the party's non-Shia allies.

Note: These are unilateral measures outside the framework of the Security Council, whose effect extends beyond the territory of the state that issues them, and the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council have repeatedly condemned "unilateral coercive measures". When a Lebanese bank is closed or a politician punished by a foreign administrative decision without a trial in Lebanon, compliance with the US Treasury becomes in practice higher than Lebanese law, and the Banque du Liban and the banks turn into executors of a foreign policy. The state's failure to apply its own laws against money laundering and corruption makes matters worse, leaving the vacuum to others.