Head of Hamas Political Bureau: We have started a broad movement to confront the British embargo

Haniyeh confirmed that Hamas will work to block the way for the occupation to benefit from this decision

Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Ismail Haniyeh said that the movement has begun a broad movement to confront the decision to ban it, which was taken by British Home Secretary Priti Patel, describing the decision as a new attack on the Palestinian people.

Haniyeh added - in a statement issued by the movement today, Saturday - that the decision "is a condemnable step that expresses bias towards the Zionist occupation, and identifies with its attempts to criminalize the struggle of the Palestinian people." He viewed the talk of "concern for the Jewish community in Britain" as a false excuse for the decision.

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The head of Hamas' political bureau explained that the movement considers the decision "useless or influencing our movement, our struggle and our people," stressing that the resistance leadership determines the methods of confrontation, and that the decision contradicts international law "and our inalienable right to resistance and struggle for freedom, return and independence," according to the statement. Statement.

'Elective political decision'

Haniyeh said that such decisions "of a political, electoral and biased nature and biased towards the occupation will not find any influence or place in front of the peoples and the free people and they will not be able to stop the growing popular sympathy with the Palestinian cause within British and Western society."

He said that the movement condemns this decision, which came in memory of the "historic crime of the Balfour Declaration", for which Britain would have first apologized to our Palestinian people and the world at large, instead of renewing its bias towards Israel, according to the statement.

Haniyeh stated that the movement is working to isolate and condemn this decision through the labor offices in the movement's leadership and its national, Arab, Islamic and international relations, and "efforts are continuing to block the path of the occupation to benefit from it."

And British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that she had submitted - yesterday, Friday - an order in the British Parliament to amend Chapter Two of the Terrorism Act 2000 to ban Hamas entirely, including its political wing.

And she said - in her speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington - that Hamas has "great terrorist capabilities, including its access to dangerous and advanced weapons as well as facilities for training terrorists but the current classification of Hamas artificially distinguishes between the wings of the movement," referring to the originally imposed ban on Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the movement's military wing).