David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation

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David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation
theguardian.com

Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike

David Cameron has urged the BBC to describe Hamas as a terrorist organisation, reviving an accusation that the corporation shies away from a valid description of the Islamist group that is holding Israeli hostages.

The UK foreign secretary told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the organisation should reconsider its guidelines in light of a video released by Hamas showing the British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell, who the group said had died in Gaza.

Hamas released a statement on Saturday saying the 51-year-old had died after being wounded in an Israeli airstrike a month ago. The video showed him with a black eye.

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Isreal isn't labeled a terrorist organization by any institutional body that I know of.

Which is ironic considering at this point Israel has most likely killed more innocent civilians than Hamas ever did

So has the US, Russia, China etc. by that metric. The killing of civilians is not what determines a terrorist organization.

The zionist paramilitaries that were consolidated (read: Likud) into the first iteration of the IDF were proud, avowed terrorists because they knew they couldn't win a territorial conflict using conventional methods while outnumbered on hostile turf. Labeled, ha.