Senior Hamas official denounces 'clowns' who cheered Netanyahu's Congress speech
A senior member of Hamas’s political bureau has attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress earlier this week, in a column published by Al Jazeera.
Referring to US congress members who gave several standing ovations to Netanyahu, Izzat al-Risheq condemned “the clowns who claimed to be leaders of the ‘free world’” for praising the Israeli premier.
Risheq accused Netanyahu of spreading accounts of Hamas' attack on Israel on 7 October which he said were debunked by Palestinian, American and international media outlets.
“With the extent of his lies, he received applause from false witnesses from members of Congress who chose to be sitting in the wrong place at a historical moment that would haunt them and record them as accomplices in that genocide,” he said.