The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has accused Israel of having “created” and “financed” Hamas, reports Al Jazeera.
“Hamas has been financed by the Israeli government to try to weaken the Palestinian Authority of Fatah,” Borrell said on Friday.
“We believe that a two-state solution must be imposed from outside to bring peace. Although, I insist, Israel is reaffirming its refusal, and to prevent it they have gone so far as to create Hamas themselves.”
Hamas was created in December 1987 shortly after the start of the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
In June 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip. The Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinian Authority partially administers the occupied West Bank.
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