LONDON
Hamas has submitted a legal filing in Britain demanding it be removed from the government’s list of proscribed terror groups. The organization is arguing that it is a “Palestinian Islamic liberation and resistance movement whose goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project,” and not a terrorist group. The claim includes a witness statement by Mousa Abu Marzouk, Hamas’s head of international relations and the applicant for the filing. It was submitted to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Abu Marzouk’s statement said: “The British government’s decision to proscribe Hamas is an unjust one that is symptomatic of its unwavering support for Zionism, apartheid, occupation and ethnic cleansing in Palestine .
