For the European Commission, Hamas is still a terrorist organization

The European Commission still considers Hamas a terrorist organization. The clarification was made on Wednesday at midday.

Earlier in the morning, the court of the European Union had nevertheless decided to remove the Palestinian movement from the blacklist, citing a technicality.

At the commission, we insist on the legal and non-political of the decision of the court, and it is envisaged also to appeal.

For its part, the Islamist movement has called "victory" the decision of the Justice. "We are a resistance movement, said Mussa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas officials, and under international law, we are entitled to resist the occupation."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded quickly to the decision of the Luxembourg court, calling on Europeans to reconsider this decision, pointing out that Hamas advocated the destruction of Israel. Paul Hirschson is a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Minister. "We want to believe that the Europeans, like many other members of the international community, always consider Hamas a terrorist organization, he commented. These are also the Europeans who put Hamas leaders in their black list ".

It was in 2001 in the wake of the attacks of September 11 that the European Union has created its list of terrorist organizations.

She had first entered the armed wing of Hamas, prior to incorporate the political branch in September 2003.