USA “blacklists” 3 members of Hamas in support of israel’s terrorism

September 9th, 2015

Awake Goy

Hamas: U.S. blacklisting of resistance trio “nonsense

WASHINGTON, (PIC)– Hamas has slammed a decision by the U.S. Department of State designating Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Rawhi Mushtaha, and Muhammed Deif, along with the Lebanese ex-prisoner Samir al-Quntar, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).

According to a statement by the U.S. Department of State, the consequences of these designations include a prohibition against U.S. persons engaging in transactions with Yahya Sinwar, Rawhi Mushtaha, and Muhammed Deif, and the freezing of all property and interests of Sinwar, Mushtaha, and Deif that are in the United States, or come within the United States or the possession or control of U.S. persons.

Muhammed Deif is the top commander of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. During the 2014 Israeli offensive on blockaded Gaza, Deif was the mastermind of Hamas’s defensive strategy.

Sinwar and Mushtaha were released from occupation jails in 2011 as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.

Samir al-Quntar is a Lebanese ex-prisoner released in a swap deal struck on July 18, 2008 between Hezbollah and Israel.

Hamas dubbed the designation unethical and against international law.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the decision boosts Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian people, branding it “trivial.”

Meanwhile, senior Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil told the Palestinian Information Center that such a biased U.S. position has never been unexpected from an administration that has always shown bias to the occupation and strived to cover up its crimes.

“The real terrorist is the one who restocked the Israeli occupation with deadly weapons that have killed thousands of innocent women and children and reduced thousands of Gaza’s populated homes into rubble,” he said.

“Before trying to blacklist our elites as terrorists, the U.S. has to look at its ugly face in the mirror,” al-Bardawil added.The U.S. is the one who produced terrorism, murder, and destruction everywhere across the globe.”

For his part, blacklisted Mushtaha told the Khaleej Online news site: “Resistance to the occupation is Palestinians’ inalienable right.”

“None of us, Palestinians, sees resistance to the Israeli occupation as terrorism. It is an internationally guaranteed law.”

He further vowed that the U.S. decision shall never dash the hopes of the Palestinian resistance and people in their national liberation struggle.

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