The Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas, which won the Palestinian legislative elections last month, plans to send emissaries to South America to seek financial and political support, a Brazilian newspaper reported.
The O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper said Hamas planned to send envoys to Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. South America is home to large Palestinian immigrant communities.
Hamas wants to reach out to South American leaders "to disabuse them of the view that we are terrorists and to demonstrate that the problem is the Israeli occupation," a Hamas spokesman, Abu Kuhri, told the paper THursday.
Kuhri said senior Hamas leaders would travel to the region seeking support for the Palestinian cause, as well as potential investors. |