Hamas slams United States President Donald Trump’s statement on Jewish connections to the city of Jerusalem.
“His talk about the Jewish people’ historical and eternal connection to Jerusalem was falsification of history,” says Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum, in a statement posted on the terror group’s official website.
Speaking at the Israel museum on Tuesday, the US president said the “ties of the Jewish people to this Holy Land are ancient and eternal.”
The Hamas spokesperson says this statement was “racist in the extreme, and establishes the pillars of a new Israeli apartheid regime, and encourages hatred of the Palestinian people.”
US President Donald Trump delivers his final speech at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before his departure, on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
“This American policy, which is fully biased for the Zionist entity, will encourage the occupation to commit more crimes and violations against our people and its holy places,” he adds.
Hamas, along with the Palestinian Authority, has long accused Israel of committing “violations” against Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem. Israel strongly denies this claim.
Barhoum ends his statement saying, “This confirms the bet on the American role to be just towards the Palestinians is a losing bet and the selling of an illusion.”
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