Video of 'Palestinian fighter' threatening Paris Olympics debunked

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The number one reason is that Hamas is not a globally operating terrorist organisation,” Andreas Krieg, assistant professor at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, told Middle East Eye.

“They’ve never been involved in any sort of terrorist attacks overseas: the IS [Islamic State] or al Qaeda-style mass casualty attacks on Western targets - or even Jewish targets or Israeli targets - overseas.”

Krieg said that Hamas saw itself only as a Palestinian resistance army, whose fight was on its own soil.

“Clearly the framing is an attempt to equate Hamas with IS, who have a very different political outlook,” Marc Owen Jones, an expert on disinformation and the Middle East, told MEE.

Period	24 Jul 2024
Held at	Middle East Eye, United States