Banning Hamas condemnation of Britain's decision and the United Nations will "continue" to deal with it

Despite Britain's decision to classify it as a terrorist organization, the United Nations announced that it would continue its dealings with the "Hamas" movement, while Palestinian factions issued separate statements condemning the British decision.

On Friday, the United Nations announced the continuation of its dealings with the Palestinian "Hamas" in the Gaza Strip, commenting on Britain's attempt to pass a law classifying the movement as a "terrorist organization".

"We continue to deal with the authorities in Gaza (run by Hamas) as necessary, and we leave it to the member states to decide on this," Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said at a press conference.

For its part, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry expressed, on Saturday, its rejection of the British government's decision to consider Hamas a "terrorist" organization, and condemned the British decision, considering it "acquiescing to Israeli pressure."

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry considered the decision "an unjustified attack on the Palestinian people, who are subjected to the most heinous forms of occupation and the historical injustice on which the Balfour Declaration was founded."

She said that "the British government, with this decision, has placed obstacles in the way of achieving peace, and obstacles in the way of efforts to consolidate the truce and rebuild the Gaza Strip."

She added that the decision "comes a week after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett demanded his British counterpart, on the sidelines of the climate summit meeting in Glasgow, to approve Hamas as a terrorist organization."

In a related context, Palestinian factions condemned Friday the British Home Office's decision to take measures to ban the Islamic resistance movement Hamas and consider it a "terrorist organization."

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it "condemns the British Home Secretary's decision to declare Hamas a terrorist organization."

The Front considered in a statement that the decision "targets the legitimate resistance of our people and comes as a continuation of Britain's position hostile to our Palestinian people."

The Front called on Britain to "abandon this decision that is biased towards the Zionist entity and its continuous aggression against our people and their legitimate rights."

For its part, the "Islamic Jihad" movement considered the British decision "hostile and unjust that only serves the Zionist occupation."

And she said in a statement: "Resistance is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian forces will not abandon the exercise of this right in all forms, no matter how biased the unjust and hypocritical governments are towards the occupation."

In turn, the "Mujahideen" movement stressed that "the inclusion of the resistance factions on the list of terrorism is a continuation of the Western aggression against our Palestinian people, their cause and their resistance."

And considered in a statement that the decision was "a new British bias in favor of the Zionist occupation and gives it a cover to continue its criminality against our people and our resistance."

For its part, the Palestinian National Initiative described the decision in a press statement as "unjust, which deepens the bias of the government of Boris Johnson to the government of the Israeli occupation and Israeli racist extremism."

She added that the decision "destroys the chances of a just peace and represents an attack on international law and the right of the Palestinian people to practice democracy and defend their national rights."

The movement considered that the decision also represents "acquiescence to the dictates of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose government continues its attacks against the Palestinian people, national forces and Palestinian civil society organizations."

In turn, the Palestine Liberation Front said in a statement that the decision represented "a transgression of the moral boundaries of one of the components of the Palestinian struggle movement for liberation from the hateful occupation."

The Front demanded the British government "to retract this unjust decision that contradicts international resolutions and laws that stipulate the right of peoples to resist and expel the occupier, and to use all possible means in order to restore land and rights and exercise a decent life in their homeland."

It also called on the British government to "correct its mistake, recognize the Palestinian state and the rights of the Palestinian people as stipulated in UN resolutions, condemn the practices of the occupation, criminalize its actions, bring its leaders and soldiers to trial, and demand the Israeli government to stop its behavior towards the Palestinian people and their valiant resistance."

And earlier on Friday , British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that she had begun to pass a law in Parliament classifying "Hamas" as a "terrorist" organization and banning it in the United Kingdom.

"Today I took measures to completely ban Hamas, this government is committed to confronting extremism and terrorism wherever it is," Patel said in a tweet.