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Haniyeh urges Europe: Remove Hamas from terror group list
By Haaretz Service
Tags: israel news, hamas, gaza war 

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday urged the European community to remove Hamas and other Palestinian groups from their list of recognized terror groups, Ma'an news agency reported.

Haniyeh made his comments in a video address to the seventh conference of Palestinians living in Europe.

The Hamas leader said that his faction "has always been interested in openness to European countries" and said that he hopes to reconcile with the rival Palestinian Fatah faction, which is led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Haniyeh also called on European human rights' groups to send a fact-finding committee to Gaza to investigate alleged war crimes perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces during its 22-day offensive to end rocket fire on Israel's southern communities.

The seventh conference of Palestinians living in Europe got underway in Milan on Saturday under the banner, "Right of return is nonnegotiable and will not be relinquished."

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      1.   It will happen automatically when the group is no longer commited 21:29  |  redbourn 02/05/09
      2.   Stop being terrorists then :P 21:41  |  Jordan 02/05/09
      3.   Maybe if they stopped terrorizing.. 21:55  |  Malone 02/05/09
      4.   Right of return to moslemised spain is nonnegotiable and will not 23:09  |  Joseph.E 02/05/09
      5.   Hamas 23:50  |  Dik 02/05/09
      6.   Terror Label 00:01  |  paul 03/05/09
      7.   If u walk like a duck & quack like a duck then people tend to 00:09  |  think u are a duck 03/05/09
      8.   Beware those who call evil good and good evil ?? 00:15  |  Bill 03/05/09
      9.   Israeli`s are killing daily. Hamas not. 00:50  |  Alaska 03/05/09
      10.   nuts 01:26  |  Marcel Pfister 03/05/09
      11.   I agree 01:35  |  Mike McKenna 03/05/09
      12.   Please Remove Us! Our Terror is Only Directed Toward Israel! 02:08  |  lagunageno 03/05/09
      13.   Committee article? 02:50  |  Matthew Houston 03/05/09
      14.   Hamas is resistance to state terror 03:16  |  gly 03/05/09
      15.   haniyeh`s status change 03:46  |  neil 03/05/09
      16.   A group with a charter to kill Jews. hmm terror is mild 04:32  |  David 03/05/09
      17.   In 20 years he won`t have to ask. 05:24  |  Jasper 03/05/09
      18.   Mr. Haniyeh 05:46  |  Antiterror 03/05/09
      19.   Confronting Zionism is not terrorism 06:03  |  Harold 03/05/09
      20.   Hamas doesn`t fit the definition... 06:35  |  BBSNews 03/05/09
      21.   Pathetic, just pathetic 07:21  |  Lynn 03/05/09
      22.   BBVS....even the UN has not figured out a definition 07:25  |  Lynn 03/05/09
      23.   o David, suggestion for a better name 07:45  |  john spear Canadian 03/05/09
      24.   Democracy in action Harold 10:16  |  Michael 03/05/09
      25.   Pshaw gly 10:20  |  Michael 03/05/09
      26.   second part 10:48  |  john and the TRUTH! 03/05/09
      27.   # 9 14:06  |  oz 03/05/09
      28.   ha ha 14:12  |  ehud 03/05/09
      29.   # 18 14:23  |  oz 03/05/09
      30.   #9 You suffere from selective political glaucoma 16:25  |  Israeli Observer 03/05/09
      31.   Read their charter 17:13  |  Jamie 03/05/09
      32.   Hamas Openness 17:20  |  Zach 03/05/09
      33.   Sidelines...EU and Gulf States trying to hammer out 17:33  |  Lynn 03/05/09
      34.   Alaska ....Pals rockets land in fields....why do they shoot if 17:35  |  Maria 03/05/09
      35.   HA HA HA! 19:01  |  Yazza 03/05/09
      36.   Alaska 03:30  |  Connie 04/05/09
      37.   next 04:07  |  ehud 04/05/09
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