During a speech in Spain, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Israel was responsible for financing Hamas and their surge to power in Gaza.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said very plainly during a speech at the University of Valladolid in Spain that Israel financed Hamas in an effort to weaken the then-governing Palestinian Authority.

“Yes, Hamas was financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah,” Borrell said without elaborating, Reuters reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously denied such allegations. He has also decried other remarks from the EU and the United Nations as sympathetic to Hamas.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    Yes indeed. The IDF is lying about Hamas bases underneath hospitals. We must be very careful to believe any of their lies.

    Luckily this certain case of Netanyahu financing Hamas is very well documented and supported with mountains of actual evidence, unlike the IDF propaganda many mainstream papers like to show us