Hamas calls on world to strengthen boycott of Israeli occupation and its leaders

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has urged all countries to strengthen the boycott of what it described as the “fascist Israeli occupation and its terrorist leaders.”

In a statement received by Quds Press on Sunday, the movement also called on African nations in particular to reject any form of relations with Israel and to continue their historic role in opposing injustice and colonialism, which it said “the Zionist occupation represents in its most brutal and bloody form.”

Hamas stated that the planned visit of the Israeli president to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is “a Zionist attempt to undermine the firm African positions that support the Palestinian people’s right to freedom and to end the occupation.”

The movement added that “welcoming a war criminal whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent children, women and the elderly constitutes actual participation in whitewashing the occupation’s image and normalising relations with the crime of genocide committed against our people in the Gaza Strip — a crime whose effects continue as the occupation denies its obligations and persists in violating the ceasefire agreement.”