Hamas blasts Britain’s plan to designate it a ‘terror’ group

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has responded to British Home Secretary Priti Patel’s plans to designate it as a “terrorist group”, saying that Britain was “supporting the aggressor at the expense of the victim”. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas also condemned the move. “Instead of apologising for and correcting its historic injustices against the Palestinian people, both in the disastrous Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate… Britain is supporting the aggressor at the expense of the victim,” a statement from Hamas said. The 1917 Balfour Dec…

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