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Post by Daniel on May 28, 2017 9:20:30 GMT -5
Hamas insists: We're not a terror organization
Arutz Sheva North America Staff, 27/05/17
Hamas continues to blast U.S. President Donald Trump for saying in a speech this week that Hamas and Hezbollah were on par with other terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (ISIS).
Hamas member Mushir al-Masri claimed that the description of Hamas as a terrorist organization by Trump was an expression of bias in favor of Israel which, he claimed, serves the interests of the "enemy".
He accused Washington of a double standard, and stressed that Palestinian Arabs would continue to liberate “Palestine” by fighting the “occupation”.
Earlier this week, Hamas Vice President Mousa Abu Marzouk said in response to Trump’s speech that the organization is a movement for national freedom from the Israeli "occupation."
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Post by Daniel on Jul 25, 2018 10:57:47 GMT -5
Hamas reportedly tells Mladenov: We’re not interested in war with Israel
By Khaled Abu Toameh July 24, 2018
One day after meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, met in Gaza City on Tuesday with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The meeting, which was attended by several senior Hamas officials, focused on ways of avoiding a major military confrontation between Israel and Hamas, according to sources in the Gaza Strip.
The sources said they did not know whether the UN envoy had relayed any message from Israel to the Hamas leaders.
However, the sources said that the UN envoy reaffirmed his “strong desire” to prevent another war between Israel and Hamas.
Haniyeh and the Hamas leaders are reported to have said during the meeting that Hamas “was not interested in a military escalation” with Israel. They also repeated their demand for the lifting of sanctions imposed by the Palestinian Authority on the Gaza Strip, and the reopening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel and the Rafah terminal with Egypt.
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