Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre reaffirms that Mogadishu will not “heed to pressure” and maintains that Hamas is an “Islamic liberation organization.”
“Hamas is an Islamic liberation organization and freedom fighters struggling to liberate the Palestinian land and people,” said Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre during a speech before he stressed that Somalia refuses to call Hamas a “terrorist organization” or to “heed to pressure.”
“We will not accept to call it a terror group,” Abdi Barre added, explaining that “the Muslim world has been divided, made enemies of each other, and forced to call Hamas a terrorist organization. We don’t say it, and we don’t accept it.”
“Where is the world? Where are the human rights defenders? Where are the children’s rights defenders? Where are the women’s rights defenders? Where have they gone?” asked the Prime Minister who shed light on the sad reality in Palestine, saying, “The blood that is spilling from our brothers and the suffering they are being subjected to is for the redemption of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
According to Kulan Post, a Kenyan media outlet, Abdi Barre also underscored that “rather, we think [the state of] Israel is a terror group like Al-Shabab who kill the innocent people anyhow.”
This is not the first time that Somalia has hailed Palestine and voiced support for the Palestinian Resistance, as Somalia’s plight in the face of occupation and invasion and its fight against terrorism are not new.
Source: AlMayadeen
