Organization

Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Sanctioned entity

United States. Named in 17 sanctions listings.

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Summary

(UE) 2025/1578 du 29/07/2025 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 3978)

(UE) 2023/1505 du 20/07/2023 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 3612)

(also GI, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT, AL-GAMA'AT, IG, ISLAMIC GROUP, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA)

(also GI, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT, IG, ISLAMIC GROUP, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA)

Name Islamische Gruppe: Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Name Groupe islamique: Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

(UE) 2021/1188 du 19/07/2021 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 1150)

(also GI, AL-GAMA'AT, IG, ISLAMIC GROUP, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA)

Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

(UE) 2025/206 du 30/01/2025 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 3871)

(also IG, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, GI, AL-GAMA'AT, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA, ISLAMIC GROUP)

(also GI, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT, AL-GAMA'AT, IG, ISLAMIC GROUP, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA)

(UE) 2026/1878 du 30/07/2026 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 4208)

(also IG, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, GI, AL-GAMA'AT, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT)

(also IG, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, GI, AL-GAMA'AT, ISLAMIC GROUP, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT)

(UE) 2026/456 du 26/02/2026 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 4102)

(UE) 2022/1230 du 18/07/2022 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 2411)

(also GI, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT, AL-GAMA'AT, IG, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA)

2003/902/CE du 22/12/2003 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 476)

Name Islamic Group: Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

Gama’a al-Islamiyya is an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement.

(UE) 2023/420 du 24/02/2023 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001) (FondementJuridique: 3532)

Name IG: Islamic Group, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (AGAI) started in the early 1970s as an Islamist student movement on Egyptian campuses. By the late 1970s, the organization began to advocate change by force. Its primary goal was to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state governed by Sharia Law. Past AGAI attacks primarily targeted the police, government officials, informants, government sympathizers, foreign tourists, and Coptic Christians. AGAI claimed responsibility for the February 1993 bombing of a Café in Cairo which killed at least 3 people and wounded 15 others, including a Canadian. AGAI was also responsible for the e killing of 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians in Luxor, Egypt, in November 1997.

(Date of UN designation: 2002-05-03)

Islamic Group, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

(also IG, GI, AL-GAMA'AT, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA, ISLAMIC GROUP, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT)

(also IG, GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA, GI, EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYA, ISLAMIC GROUP, ISLAMIC GAMA'AT)

Sanctions and listings17

  • EU Specific Measures To Combat Terrorism - (UE) 2023/1505 du 20/07/2023 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2026/456 du 26/02/2026 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2026/1878 du 30/07/2026 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2021/1188 du 19/07/2021 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2025/206 du 30/01/2025 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2022/1230 du 18/07/2022 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2025/1578 du 29/07/2025 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); (UE) 2023/420 du 24/02/2023 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001); 2003/902/CE du 22/12/2003 (UE personnes impliquées dans des actes de terrorisme - R (UE) 2580/2001)

    Direction Générale du TrésorFrench National Asset Freezing SystemFrance

    Programme EU-TERRReference EU.3512.47gels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.frsanctionsmap.eu

  • Listed
    27 Jul 2012

    Reciprocal

    OFACUS SAM Procurement ExclusionsUnited StatesActive

    Prohibition/Restriction

    Redacted for Security Reasons

    sam.gov

  • Listed
    27 Jul 2012

    Reciprocal

    OFACUS SAM Procurement ExclusionsUnited StatesActive

    Prohibition/Restriction

    Redacted for Security Reasons

    sam.gov

  • Listed
    27 Jul 2012

    Reciprocal

    OFACUS SAM Procurement ExclusionsUnited StatesActive

    Prohibition/Restriction

    Redacted for Security Reasons

    sam.gov

  • Australia's Counter-Terrorism (UNSCR 1373) Sanctions Regime - 1373 (2001)

    Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeAustralian Sanctions Consolidated ListAustralia

    Targeted financial sanction

    Instrument of first listing: Charter of the United Nations (Anti-terrorism — Persons and Entities) List 2001 (No. 2) [F2021L00643, Gazette No. S 500, 21 December 2001]. Re-listed on: 16/09/2022, 13/09/2025: Charter of the United Nations (Listed Persons and Entities) Amendment (No. 2) Instrument 2025

    Instrument of first listing: Charter of the United Nations (Listed Persons and Entities) Amendment (No. 2) Instrument 2025 on 13/09/2025

    Programme AU-UNSC1373Last updated 13 Sep 2025dfat.gov.audfat.gov.au

  • Listed
    27 Jul 2012

    Reciprocal

    OFACUS SAM Procurement ExclusionsUnited StatesActive

    Prohibition/Restriction

    Redacted for Security Reasons

    sam.gov

  • Official designation

    La Principauté de MonacoMonaco National Fund Freezing ListMonaco

    (UE) 2024/329 du 16/01/2024, 2003/902/ce du 22/12/2003, (ue) 2025/206 du 30/01/2025, (ue) 2023/420 du 24/02/2023, (ue) 2024/2055 du 26/07/2024, (ue) 2022/1230 du 18/07/2022, (ue) 2021/138 du 05/02/2021, (ue) 2023/1505 du 20/07/2023, (ue) 2025/1578 du 29/07/2025, (ue) 2021/1188 du 19/07/2021, (ue) 2022/147 du 03/02/2022 and (ue) 2026/1878 du 30/07/2026

    Autorité de désignation publiée : Union européenne

    geldefonds.gouv.mc

  • Official designation

    UK Home SecretaryUK Proscribed Terrorist Groups or OrganizationsUnited Kingdom

    legislation.gov.ukgov.uk

  • Canada Counter-Terrorism (Criminal Code) Sanctions Regime

    Public Safety CanadaCanadian Listed Terrorist EntitiesCanada

    Programme CA-UNSC1373publicsafety.gc.calaws-lois.justice.gc.ca

  • Listed
    27 Jul 2012

    Reciprocal

    OFACUS SAM Procurement ExclusionsUnited StatesActive

    Prohibition/Restriction

    Redacted for Security Reasons

    sam.gov

  • Ended
    20 May 2022

    US Immigration and Nationality Act Section 219

    U.S. Department of StateUS Department of State Foreign Terrorist OrganizationsUnited States

    Programme US-FTO219state.govcongress.govcongress.gov

  • Effective
    31 Dec 2020

    UK sanctions relating to international counter-terrorism - The Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

    UK; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development OfficeUK FCDO Sanctions ListUnited Kingdom

    Director Disqualification Sanction, arms embargo and asset freeze

    Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (GI) is an Egyptian Sunni terrorist organisation who were responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the 1980s and 1990s

    Programme GB-ICTReference 6988Reference CTI0030Last updated 9 Apr 2025gov.ukgov.uk

  • Effective
    6 Jul 2002

    テロリスト等 / 米国等が資産凍結等の措置を実施した個人及び団体

    Ministry of FinanceJapan Economic Sanctions and List of Eligible PeopleJapan

    notification_date as published: 2015.10.30改訂

    Reference 14Last updated 30 Oct 2015mof.go.jp

  • Listed
    31 Jan 2025
    Effective
    3 May 2002

    EU Specific Measures To Combat Terrorism - TERR

    Directorate‑General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets UnionEU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)European Union

    Designation date published: 2002-05-03

    regulationType=amendment; organisationType=council

    2025/206 (L 202500206)

    Programme EU-TERRReference EU.3512.47eur-lex.europa.eusanctionsmap.eu

  • Listed
    21 Jul 2023; 22 Dec 2003; 1 Aug 2015; 14 Jan 2020

    EU Specific Measures To Combat Terrorism

    Federal Public Service FinanceBelgian Financial SanctionsBelgium

    2015/1325 (OJ L206)

    2003/902/EC (OJ L340)

    2023/1505 (OJ L184)

    2020/19 (OJ L8I)

    Programme EU-TERRfinance.belgium.besanctionsmap.eu

  • Lista persoanelor, grupurilor și entităților cărora li se aplică măsurile menționate la articolele 2 și 3 din Poziția comună 2001/931/PESC

    Centrul Antiterorist al Serviciului de Informaţii şi Securitate al Republicii MoldovaMoldovan Sanctions for Terrorism and Proliferation of WMDMoldova

    antiteror.sis.md

  • Listed
    24 Jan 1995

    Counter Terrorism - SDGT

    Office of Foreign Assets ControlUS OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) ListUnited States

    SDGT and block

    Secondary sanctions risk: section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended by Executive Order 13886

    Executive Order 13224 (Terrorism)

    Programme US-TERRReference 4694treasury.govofac.treasury.gov

Other names55

Also known as53

Al-Gama’atIslamska skupinaIslamirühmitusGrúpa IoslamachAl-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, IGХамас, включително Хамас-Изз ал Дин ал-Касемal-Jama’ah al-IslamiyahIslamic Gama’atAl-jamāʻah al-islāmīyahAl-jama'ah al-islamiyahIslamitische Groep(IG).„Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya”) [„Islamic Group” („Grupul Islamic”) – „IG” („GI”)]Iszlám CsoportIslamisk GruppeISLAMIC GROUPEGYPTIAN AL-GAMA'AT AL-ISLAMIYYAAl-Gama’a al-Islamiyya
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Islamische GruppeAl-Gama'a al-IslamiyyaGrupul Islamicil-Grupp IżlamikuГамаа ал-Исламийя (Исламик Груп)Islamistična skupinaΙσλαμική ΟμάδαGroupe islamique "GI"AL-GAMA'ATISLAMIC GAMA'ATIslamo grupuotėEgyptian Al’Gama’at al-IslamiyyaAl Jama'a Al-Islamiyaアル・ガマーア・アル・イスラミーヤThe Islamic GroupIslamic GroupJamaat al-islamiyyaIslamiska gruppenGrupa IslamskaGrupo IslámicoGroupe islamiqueIslamská skupinaIslámská skupinaДжамаа ИслямияGrupo IslâmicoAl-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (AGAI)Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYAGama’a al-Islamiyya„Gama'a al-Islamiyya”Gama'a al-Islamiyya(Islamic Group(IG))Al-Gama’at al-Islamiyaガマーア・アル・イスラミーヤ(イスラム集団(IG))ガマーア・アル・イスラミーヤAl-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya

Weak aliases2

Spellings the source flags as too generic to establish a match on their own.

IGGI

Addresses1

  • Egypt

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