LONDON (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The head of the International Relations and Legal Affairs Office in the Hamas Movement, Musa Abu Marzouk, assigned a British legal team representing the Movement to submit an appeal to the UK Home Office against the continued designation of Hamas as a banned organization.
According to a statement issued by the Movement on Thursday, a legal team from the Riverway law firm in London submitted on Wednesday, April 9, a formal appeal to the Home Office, objecting to the Movement’s continued designation as a “terrorist organization.”
The Movement stated that it considers this designation, which was issued in October 2021, an “unjust decision that constitutes a blatant bias in favor of the Zionist occupation, which continues to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.”
It also said that this designation ignores human rights and democratic principles, international law, and the British laws themselves, which guarantee the right of peoples to resist occupation, the right of self-defense, and freedom of opinion and expression.
Hamas pointed out that “this designation, and all other British government policies, represent actual complicity and real participation in the crimes of murder, starvation, genocide, destruction and colonization practiced by the racist occupation against our people in Gaza, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.”
It also stressed that the “British government’s policy, which criminalizes solidarity with our people and suppresses freedom of expression, political, humanitarian and relief support, represents clear and unacceptable legal violations.”
“It is no secret that the UK government created the tragedy of the Palestinian people when it uprooted them from their land and handed over their homeland to Zionist gangs brought from all over the world. British governments, through their biased policies, continue to bear legal and moral responsibility for our people suffering from daily massacres, suffocating sieges, and systematic starvation,” it added.
While rejecting the UK official bias towards Israel’s criminality, Hamas valued the noble humanitarian positions of the British masses in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights to liberation, independence and a decent life.
“It is high time for the UK government to review its unjust policies, correct its historical sins, stand by our people and their rights, respect their choice to resist the occupation, cancel the labeling of Hamas and other resistance movements as terrorist movements, and stop providing political and military support to Israel,” it said.
