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Senior Hamas official: ‘Presence of an American embassy is unacceptable’

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said in a Dec. 23 interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) that Iran does not ask anything in return for the aid it provides to Hamas.

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said in a Dec. 23, 2018 interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) that Iran does not ask anything in return for the aid it provides to Hamas. (MEMRI)
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said in a Dec. 23, 2018 interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) that Iran does not ask anything in return for the aid it provides to Hamas. (MEMRI)

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said in a Dec. 23, 2018, interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) that Iran does not ask anything in return for the aid it provides to Hamas.

He added that the presence of an American embassy in Palestine is totally unacceptable, even if it were built in Tzfat or suspended above Palestine, and that Western Jerusalem is even more Arab than Eastern Jerusalem.

He added that Israel was established by the West in order to get rid of the Zionist cancer that was ruining the Western economy.

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