The State Department on Wednesday branded a key Hamas leader as a terrorist, imposing sanctions against him and three terrorist groups.

The government designated Ismail Haniyeh, who was elected to lead the terrorist group’s political bureau in May, as a specially designated global terrorist. It also identified the Palestinian organization Harakat al Sabireen as a terrorist group, along with two Egyptian-based groups: Liwa al-Thawra, and Harakat Sawa’d Misr.