Declare Hamas a terrorist group — Prosor to UN

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, calls on the international body to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization and to stop giving it a “free hand.”

Prosor urges the UN to take a number of immediate steps in response to the kidnapping this morning of an IDF officer in the southern Gaza Strip: condemn Hamas for kidnapping an Israeli soldier, breaking a temporary truce and denying humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, demand the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and declare Hamas a terrorist organization.

He adds that the kidnapping proves Hamas is committed more to killing and kidnapping Israelis than to the welfare of the Palestinian people.

Remarking that Gazan terrorists have fired 3,073 rockets at Israel in the past month alone, Prosor asks how much more proof the UN needs that Hamas is a terrorist organization before declaring it as such.