HAMAS

• ... took over 150 hostages, including children, the elderly and disabled
  
  
• ... does not represent Palestinians as a whole: it is an organisation dedicated to the destruction of ISRAEL
  
  
• ... has never been interested in a peaceful, negotiated solution to the Palestine situation
  
  
• ... is a designated terrorist organisation banned in the UK

• ... has committed multiple Crimes Against Humanity
  
  
• ... massacred 260 young people at a peaceful music festival
  
  
• ... targeted schools so as to kill as many children as possible
  
  
• ... murdered children and decapitated babies