Hamas, a Genocidal Terrorist Actor, is not Legally Accepted as a “Combatant”
Hamas is not a “Combatant” as defined by the four UN Charters, the UN Protocol and international agreements relating to Humanitarian and non-Humanitarian Law.
It is a genocidal terrorist body, voted into power by the Gazans, who are complicit for this and the reasons set out below.
As such, it cannot cannot call on the relevant conventions, protocol and agreements for action against Israel, who is considered a “Combatant”, on its behalf.
Please refer to the English translation of the opening preamble of Hamas’s Convention for proof of the facts set out above. This preamble can be found on the government of Israel’s website.
If the preamble is not enough to convince the reader, there is, on the same page, a link to the full text of this “instrument”.
The indisputable implications of the preamble and clear statement of intention throughout the actual text are that the sole raison d’etre of this pariah entity is to eradicate non-Muslim and predominantly non-Muslim nations and states.
Relying in the main on the Sunna, the “custom” of Islam’s Prophet, Mohammed, and then selectively using the quranic suras, this actor, Hamas, brandisges its Jihadist “interpretation” of the Qur’an.
The current focus of the Western world, the darling of the UN – Hamas – disseminates propaganda, which is defined as lies, deception and the use of other immoral means to further its goals.
This propaganda has, incredibly – an understatement when aplied to the current state of world affairs – convinced Western states and their electorates that Israel is the wrongdoer: the occupier, the colonialist with territorial ambitions, the genocidal state employing the most “revolting”, non-humanitarian means.
Who, the writer asks, is the aggressor; who the invader – ie, who has the historical right to Israel as well as to all those countries targetted by the Jihadist proxy, Hamas; who is the genocidal actor; and who is it who flouts international humanitarian law?
Please see the four UN Conventions on Humanitarian Law, the relevant Protocol and the non-Humanitarian agreements available on the web’s Internet Archive pages for the definition of “Combatant”. These sources are too numerous for inclusion here.
Having read them, the reader cannot but come to the conclusion that all definitions do not include Hamas as a “Combatant”.
In other words, International Humanitarian and non-Humanitarian Law does not apply to Hamas. And the claim that there is a legal case for describing the present situation in Gaza as humanitarian crisis is groundless.
If attention is now pivoting towards the international legality of Israel’s policy in Gaza in terms of its genocidal character, why is the converse – the genocidal intentions of Hamas and its supporters – ignored?
According to Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned media outlet, its protagonist, Hamas, won a “huge majority” in the Gazan “parliamentary” elections of January 2006.
Those Gazans who voted for Hamas – cognizant of its Charter, with its justification of genocide and world-wide Jihadist programme, as well as those who were not so cognizant – are just as culpable, just as complicit, as their leaders.