UN still does not label, sanction Hamas as terror group despite murderous attacksAs Israel reels from the deadliest terror attack in years by Hamas, the United Nations Security Council still does not recognize or sanction Hamas as a terror group — despite multiple other nations declaring it to be so.
"The U.N. Security Council votes to impose sanctions and designations on groups like al Qaeda, the Taliban or ISIS. But no such sanctions or designations exist for Iran’s axis of terror groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah," Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
The Council, under resolutions passed in 1999, 2011 and 2015, sanctions ISIS and al Qaeda, along with associated individuals and groups. The Council’s committee on those resolutions oversees sanctions measured imposed by the council.
However, there are no such sanctions in place for Hamas and Hezbollah. The lack of sanctioning comes as Israel is pushing back against Hamas after it was hit by a surprise attack that killed more than 1,300 Israelis.
"The U.N. insists these are legitimate political movements and therefore can freely work with them," said Goldberg, who previously served as the director for countering weapons of destruction at the White House National Security Council between 2019 and 2020.
Israeli and U.S. officials have criticized the U.N., including the Security Council — which is made up of 15 members, including permanent membership for the U.S., the U.K., France, China and Russia — for allegedly having an anti-Israel bias. During the Trump administration, then-Ambassador Nikki Haley introduced a resolution in 2018 to label Hamas as a terror group, but it received only one vote in favor — that of the U.S. An attempt to have the U.N. General Assembly condemn Hamas was also unsuccessful.................
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