Senior Hamas official on Qatar strike: Israel’s crimes will not affect leadership’s decisions

Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Senior Hamas figure Husam Badran issues a statement regarding yesterday’s Israeli strike in Qatar,  arguing that “Israel’s crimes will not affect the decisions of the leadership nor our coordination with the other factions.”

Badran adds: “The criminal occupation is a real threat to the region’s security and stability.”

Badran is a senior Hamas leader based abroad and is believed to have been in Qatar at the time of the strike. The statement put out in his name appears to indicate he wasn’t harmed in the strike.

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