According to UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a political movement. With this opinion, which he recently expressed in a television interview, the 72-year-old Briton caused outrage in Israel.
Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan further wrote Isn’t the Systematic Rape of Women Terror? Foreign Minister Israel Katz also wrote on Twitter on Thursday: “Shame on him!” The minister even described Hamas as a “Nazi organization.”
A Sky News journalist had asked Griffiths whether Israel’s plan to destroy Hamas and exclude it from playing any role in future Gaza negotiations was realistic (see above). The UN official replied: “I think it is very difficult. I have worked with many different terrorist and rebel groups. For us, Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a political movement.”
The reason given by the UN representative
The senior UN official also emphasized on X that Hamas is not on the list of groups classified as terrorist organizations by the UN Security Council. At the same time, the Briton emphasized: “But that does not make their terrorist attacks on October 7 any less terrible and reprehensible.”
In addition to Israel, Hamas is also regarded as a terrorist organization by the EU and the US.
Source: Krone
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