2023-11-06 13:56:00
Minister Zakia Khattabi was heavily criticized for not using the term “terrorist” to describe Hamas during an interview. She then clarified her remarks.
The Federal Minister of the Environment, Zakia Khattabi, found herself in turmoil this Monday morning following comments made on the LN24 channel. Asked regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the environmentalist said do not use the term “terrorist” to describe Hamas.
“Hamas continues to carry out attacks. But I don’t use the term ‘terrorist’ because it has a legal meaning that I don’t know. I have no problem describing the attacks carried out by Hamas as ‘terrorist, barbaric and reprehensible,’ she said.The same principles that underlie my indignation and my condemnation of the terrorist acts of Hamas are those that underlie my indignation and my anger towards Israel when we see the images from Gaza. We cannot have indignations of variable geometry,” she added.
“I don’t use the term ‘terrorist’ because it has a legal meaning that I don’t know”
Strongly criticized by federal deputies Denis Ducarme (MR), Georges Dallemagne (Les Engagés), Theo Francken (N-VA) and François De Smet (DéFI) for his remarks, the ecologist wanted to clarify them followingwards. “The subject is too serious to make it a controversy. I unambiguously condemned the actions of October 7 as a terrorist attack. On the qualification, I said exactly: ‘I do not know the legal qualification’. Once it exists, clear alignment with it“, she added.
The Ecolo party then insisted: “Hamas is a terrorist organization recognized as such by the Council of the European Union and our reference parliamentarians on this issue have always been unambiguous on this subject.”
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