RE: Israel strikes militant targets in Gaza after mortar barrage
※→ Disir, et al,
There are several issues here that are converging.
(COMMENT)
IF HAMAS is sending threat messages to the US,
THEN HAMAS is in violation of Article 2(4) UN Charter.
HAMAS and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have formed a Unity government.
IF the PA supports HAMAS
THEN the Unity Government for the State of Palestine is:
• Supporting, actively or passively, entities involved in terrorist acts.
(S/RES/1373 Paragraph 2a)
• Allowing nationals within their territories from making any funds, financial assets or economic resources or other related services available, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of persons who commit or attempt to commit or facilitate or participate in the commission of terrorist acts, of entities owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such persons and of persons and entities acting on behalf of or at the direction of such persons;
(S/RES/1373 Paragraph 1d)
• Prevent those who finance, plan, facilitate or commit terrorist acts from using their respective territories for those purposes against other States or their citizens. (
S/RES/1373 Paragraph 2d)
• Acts, methods, and practices of terrorism are contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations and that knowingly financing, planning and inciting terrorist acts are also contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. (
S/RES/1373 Paragraph 5)
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A/RES/2/110 - against propaganda and the inciters of a new war -
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A/RES/65/34 – Measures to eliminate international terrorism
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A/RES/64/297 – The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
• etc, etc, etc
Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization --- while --- Hezbollah is a Shi'a Islamist political party and militant group; with a paramilitary wing called Jihad Council. While there is some tenuous connection there, it has yet to be fully explored. That is like trying to oil -- and -- water.
The Iranian connection is what it is..
Most Respectfully,
R