MOGADISHU, Somalia – Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre stated that the federal government of Somalia refused to name Hamas a “terrorist group” and didn’t heed stress.
“Hamas is a liberation group and mujahideen struggling to liberate the Palestinian land from Jews, we is not going to settle for to name it a terror group,” added Barre.
“The Muslim world was divided, made enemies of one another, and compelled to name Hamas a terrorist group. We don’t say it, and we don’t settle for it,” stated the prime minister.
“The blood that’s spilling from our brothers and the struggling they’re being subjected to is the redemption of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” he stated throughout his speech on the Nationwide Theatre.
The Somali Prime Minister stated the answer is to search out two states – Israel and Palestine,” We is not going to compromise till we see a Palestinian authorities with Jerusalem as its capital.
Somalia is amongst many Muslim nations, together with Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen that don’t acknowledge Israel as a state.
Hamas is taken into account a “terrorist group” by the U.S. and the EU. Hamas militants attacked Israeli cities on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 individuals and sending shock waves the world over.