After 19 days of deliberations and a two-month trial, jurors in the Dallas federal courthouse remained divided on most of the 197 terrorism-financing charges against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which has ties to Hamas. US District Judge Joe 
The government accused the Holy Land defendants of knowingly sending more than $12 million to... Hamas.
Fish, in accordance with federal law which requires a unanimous decision of the jury to convict a suspect, was forced to declare a mistrial on Monday.
Prosecutors say that the Justice Department will retry the case against five out of the six defendants from the foundation.
After 14 years of investigation, the government accused the defendants of knowingly sending more than $12 million to Palestinian Authority-based charity committees that were controlled by the Hamas terrorist group. The defendants claimed that Holy Land was a legitimate charity with no links to terrorism.
Top officials in the organization were found to be not guilty of most charges, with one of them unanimously acquitted on almost all counts. The latter, Mohammad El-Mezain, was the Holy Land Foundation's first chairman. A charge of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism is still pending. A top Holy Land fundraiser, Mufid Abdulqader, was found not guilty on all counts.
The verdicts, which were handed in by the jury on Thursday and read by the court on Monday, were voided after Judge Fish polled the jurors and discovered that three of them disagreed with the verdicts as they were submitted. After the judge allocated time for further deliberations to break the deadlock, 11 of 12 jurors agreed that their decisions were no longer subject to change, leading to the mistrial. The outcome of the trial was covered by media from all over the world, including such Arabic outlets as al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.
The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Muslim charity in the US, boasting $52 million collected in nine years. The organization was shut down in December 2001 by government order, which eventually led to the biggest terrorism-financing trial in American history. The US Treasury Department's fact sheet reveals that in 1994 high-ranking Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook "designated the Holy Land Foundation as the primary fund-raising entity for Hamas in the United States."
A star witness in the US government's case was an Israeli secret service agent identified only as "Avi". He identified the Hamas members, including active terrorists, who controlled the PA-based committees to which the Holy Land Foundation donated its millions of dollars. In addition, the state argued that the US-based foundation financially supported the families of suicide bombers. Aside from witness and expert testimony, the state's case depended on wiretapped phone calls, bank records, internal communications, as well as videos of anti-Semitic rallies in the US that were used as fundraisers for Holy Land. The connection between Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation was handled by Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader who was later expelled from the US for his ties to the jihadist organization.