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Haniyeh slams U.S. decision to blacklist major Gaza charity

By Reuters

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday slammed a U.S. decision to blacklist a major Gaza charity as an attempt to weaken the Islamist group after it seized control of the coastal region.

The bank accounts of the al-Salah Association, one of the largest Islamic charities in the Gaza Strip, were frozen earlier this month by Palestinian banks after the U.S. government designated it a "key support node for Hamas".

"The decision is connected to the siege imposed on 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip," Haniyeh said at a ceremony hosted by al-Salah.

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Economic sanctions have been a centrepiece of an international campaign imposed since Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006.

Palestinian and Western officials said this month that a U.S-backed campaign against Hamas was expanded to include Islamic charities that helped propel it to power.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in June dismissed the
government led by Haniyeh after the Islamist group seized control of the Gaza Strip by force, and appointed a new cabinet based in the occupied West Bank headed by Salam Fayad.

Fayad has been trying to reduce the influence of Hamas and its welfare arms by building a government-run social service system using Western and Arab funds.

Haniyeh accused both local and international groups of trying to bring Hamas down.

"They imposed the siege because they did not want the Islamist example represented in Hamas to succeed in governance and politics," Haniyeh said, adding that Hamas would remain in power despite international pressures.

Officials in al-Salah, based in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp in Gaza, say its programmes are open to all under- priveliged Palestinians, whether they are from Hamas or not.

The U.S. government said Hamas used al-Salah "to finance its
terrorist agenda".

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1.	rocket building/launching = Hamas charity work!	03:47	\|	Ryan	24/08/07

2.	hamas	03:52	\|	Mark Katzman	24/08/07

3.	Haniyeh, give that thing above your neck a shake	04:07	\|	Brad	24/08/07

4.	Hamas is no different than the Bloods	05:00	\|	GZLives	24/08/07

5.	US decision to blaclist Hamas	05:22	\|	Stan	24/08/07

6.	Disgraceful action by the US....	05:34	\|	Dutch	24/08/07

7.	Hamas Charity - Wins Award For Oxymoron Of 2007	05:35	\|	Bill Foonman	24/08/07

8.	it is not a war on terror, it is a war on the Islamic	06:15	\|	American living here	24/08/07

9.	# 8 IF an AMERICAN, an Islamic one	06:49	\|	JON FEIGENBAUM	24/08/07

10.	HANIYYEH protests sounds like the the decision is spot on	06:51	\|	PETER.SM	24/08/07

11.	Nu, so Haniyeh slams. Haniyeh, a leader of thugs, of mass	06:52	\|	Rina	24/08/07

12.	American Living There	07:33	\|	Brad	24/08/07

13.	Dutch: Like Taking Qassams From the Mouths of Babes	07:44	\|	Brad	24/08/07

14.	"American living here" ??Islam terrorises the world still	08:09	\|	PETERS SM	24/08/07

15.	Power hungry Haniyeh	08:32	\|	Frances	24/08/07

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