Hamas calls Biden's speech 'inflammatory'

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Hamas lambasted President Biden’s speech Tuesday and reaffirmed the “right to resist and end the occupation” in Gaza, calling his “inflammatory” remarks biased against Palestinian people in the occupied territories.

In a statement shared by the militant group’s press office, Hamas disparaged Biden’s speech that condemned the “sheer evil” of the attacks on Israelis.

The group said the attacks on Israel, which Hamas has dubbed “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” was in “defense” of its people and their right to “freedom and self-determination.” The militant group vowed to keep protecting these rights until its “aspirations for liberation, return, and establishment are achieved.”

Hamas has been critical of the United States since 1997, when the government designated the group a terrorist organization. As a longtime close ally of Israel, the United States has repeatedly condemned the group’s attacks, which have included suicide bombings and kidnappings in targeting Israel. In exchange, Hamas has accused the American government of being an accomplice to denying the group’s attempt to create a Palestinian state stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.

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