Israel Matzav

Saturday, September 17, 2016

US designates Hamas Television founder a global terrorist

It's certainly taken long enough, but the United States has designated Fathi Hammad, the founder of Hamas' al-Aqsa Television station, as a global terrorist.

The United States on Friday added a senior Hamas official, the Islamist group's former interior minister Fathi Hammad, to its "global terrorist" list.

Hamas, the Palestinian party controlling the Gaza Strip, has already itself been proscribed by the United States as a "foreign terrorist organization."

Under the new designation, U.S. citizens and companies will be banned from doing business with Hammad and any property he holds in areas under U.S. jurisdiction will be frozen.

According to the U.S. State Department, which issued the designation, as interior minister Hammad used his position to "coordinate terrorist cells."

The statement also said Hammad founded al-Aqsa TV, "with programs designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood."

What took them so long?

Labels: designated terror organization, Farfour, Fathi Hamad, Hamas, Hamas Television

Monday, May 14, 2007

Hamas' Mickey Mouse still on the air

On Wednesday night I reported that Hamas, under pressure due to worldwide outrage over its use of Mickey Mouse lookalike Farfour to incite anti-Semitism among 'Palestinian' children, had pulled Farfour off the air. As I am sure many of you have heard already, Hamas backtracked from the show's 'review' and it ran again on Friday afternoon. Palestinian Media Watch posted the following excerpt. It should not need any commentary.