Maher Rebhi Obeid

PersonBorn 10 Mar 1958Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

Hamas political leader and member of Hamas’ Political Bureau

Sanctioned · Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT, EU, OFAC
Listed by 4 authorities1 company, 1 under a listingPS
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Sanctions
Own listings
1
Companies
Roles recorded
1
Designated
Of those companies
1
Countries
Connections
0
Identifiers
Documents
4
Sources
17 names on file
Listed in their own right4

Named directly by Australia DFAT, EU, OFAC, Switzerland SECO.

Director of a company that is listed1

Of 1 company where a register records a role. A company being listed is not a claim about this person, and this page never presents it as one.

Sanctions4 active

  • Switzerland SECOActive

    Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad

    Designation date not published by this authority · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  • Australia DFATActive

    1373 (2001)

    Designation date not published by this authority · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  • EUActive

    HAM

    Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  • OFACActive

    SDGT

    Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

Companies & roles

HamasConnected partyCompany sanctioned · Australia DFAT, Japan MOF, France gels des avoirs, OFAC

OFAC SDN.

On the record

Name
Maher Rebhi Obeid
Also known as
Obeid Maher Rebhi · Maher Ribhi Nimr Obaid · Maher bin Rebhi Obeid · Maher bin Rebhi bin Namr Obeid
Date of birth
10 Mar 1958
Place of birth
Amman, Jordan
Nationality
PS
Position
Hamas political leader and member of Hamas’ Political Bureau
First recorded here
8 Aug 2026

Exposure

High risk2 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments84

Sanctioned by 4 authorities: OFAC, EU, Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Company associations65

Recorded at 1 designated company: Hamas.

Not scored

Jurisdiction

Not scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of Palestine. Separately, 6 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in Palestine — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source