Hamas fighters weren’t allowed to train here — Malaysia

Malaysia’s Deputy Home Affairs Minister Wan Junaidi Jaafar says that although it backs the Palestinian national ambitions, it never allowed the training of Hamas fighters on its soil.

“It does not matter what kind of freedom-fighting group they belong to, even those against Israel, we have never given permission to have such trainings here,” he tells local Malaysian media, according to the Bangkok Post. “The report is incorrect.”

A Hamas operative in Israeli custody confessed yesterday that fighters affiliated with the terror group had gone abroad to Malaysia for a week of paragliding training, in anticipation of perpetrating a terror attack on a southern Israeli town. The terrorists had planned to bypass the Gaza border security by paragliding directly into a town.