The European Union’s diplomacy chief Josep Borrell stated on Friday the state of Israel has actually funded the development of Palestinian militant group Hamas in a quote to compromise the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has actually rejected allegations by his challengers in Israel and some international media that his federal government invested years actively enhancing Hamas in Gaza.
“Yes, Hamas was funded by the federal government of Israel in an effort to compromise the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah,” Borrell stated in a speech in the University of Valladolid, without elaborating even more on such supposed funding.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro, modifying by Andrei Khalip)