The organisation is known to have local branch offices in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Pakistan, South Africa, Yemen and elsewhere.

[8] The legal proceedings also describe a 2002 meeting at which the cleric provided receipts to confirm the financial support of the Yemeni branch of the Al-Aqsa Foundation to the jihadist cause.

Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad” Matthew Levitt reports that the FBI recorded a telephone conversation between Abdelhaleem Ashqar and the then-Hamas representative to Yemen Mohammed Siyam in which ali Muqbil is described as the person in charge of “charity work at the office.”[14][15] Al-Aqsa Foundation's Swedish branch was also the conduit to channel funds from the Norway-based Islamic League to Hamas.

[4] The U.S. Treasury pointed out that at the Islamic League of Norway's annual conference held on May 18 and 19, 2002 the General Secretary of the Islamic League in Sweden reiterated the importance to support financially Al-Aqsa Foundation in Sweden, which he claimed would have contributed to the destruction of Israel.

Other nations, including the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Switzerland, have also taken action against the al-Aqsa Foundation.

[16] Germany banned the group in 2002, with Federal Minister of Interior Otto Schily accusing it of promoting terrorism and violence and supporting Hamas through a network of seemingly unsuspecting aid organizations.

[17] In April 2003, the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs sanctioned Stichting Al-Aqsa, in a measure repealed by the General Court in September 2010.