Hamas dismissed Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s allegation that the movement is “intervening in Syria’s internal affairs”.
Hamas’s spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri told the Anadolu Agency that his movement is the only Palestinian faction that left Syria after the start of the revolution in 2011 so as to avoid being a party to the ongoing conflict there.
He dismissed the allegation reportedly made by Al-Assad – that Hamas is intervening in Syria’s internal affairs – as unfounded.
Abu Zahri emphasised that, as a resistance movement, Hamas benefited from its presence in Syria but it did not and will not intervene in the internal affairs of any Arab country.
Yesterday, Syrian media outlets reported that Assad accused Hamas of intervening in his country’s internal affairs.
Before the Arab uprisings, Hamas maintained strong and long-lasting relationships with the Syrian regime in the context of what was known as the Resistance Axis – which comprised Iran, Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hamas – as opposed to the Moderate Axis, which included Mubarak’s Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan.
However, the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011 and Hamas’s refusal to support the Syria regime caused tensions between Damascus and the Palestinian movement. This led to Hamas’s leadership moving out of the country
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