The Argentine government has declared the Palestinian organization Hamas an international terrorist group, according to an official statement released on Friday night.
The decision comes at a time when President Javier Milei, who declared his alignment with Israel in the Middle East conflict, is on a tour of the United States.
“Hamas has claimed responsibility for the atrocities committed during its attack on Israel on October 7. These come on top of a long history of terrorist attacks in its name,” the president’s office said.
The decision comes days before the 30th anniversary of the attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in 1994, which left 85 dead and some 300 injured. Two years earlier, an attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires had caused the death of 22 people.
The Argentine justice declared that the attack on AMIA was perpetrated by the terrorist organization Hezbollah and responded to a “political and strategic design” of Iran.
In the statement, the Argentine government referred to the attacks by saying that “in recent years a link with the Islamic Republic of Iran has been revealed, whose leadership was found responsible for the attacks against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and against the AMIA.”
Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group designated as a terrorist group by the United States and other countries, has carried out multiple attacks against Israel, the deadliest of which occurred on October 7, when more than 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli counts, sparking the current war in Gaza.
Iran has backed Hamas in the conflict armed of almost six months against Israel, which has caused the deaths of more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
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