More than 400 European parliamentarians called on foreign ministers of their countries to stop the Zionist regime’s "de facto annexation” of the West Bank and end "the isolation of Gaza” in a joint letter released on Monday.
In a Tuesday statement released on the official website of the movement, Hamas said: "We welcome the joint letter sent by 422 EU lawmakers from 22 European states and various political parties, ... as they criticized the Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, foremost among them Israeli settlement plans, land seizure, home demolitions, forceful displacement of the Palestinians and the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.”
"This letter is a crucial step that should be followed by other steps to expose the aggressive Israeli policies against our Palestinian people,” the statement read.
Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip since 2007, said this "should turn into action to put an end to the seven-decade Israeli occupation.”
Calling the international community to impose sanctions on the occupying regime, Hamas said only the sanctions can "deter Israel from continuing its crimes against our Palestinian people and compel it to respond to our Palestinian people’s aspirations for freedom and independence.”
Parliamentarians from 22 European countries, including the Social Democrats, Greens, and Labour Party members from the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden, addressed EU foreign policy chief Borrell and foreign ministers of other European countries.
The letter argues that "the (U.S. President Joe) Biden administration presents a chance to correct course” in Middle East diplomacy.
"The previous U.S. administration left the conflict farther away from peace than ever,” it added.
Former president Donald Trump broke with much of the international consensus concerning the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
Trump recognized al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s "undivided capital” and moved Washington’s embassy there, infuriating the Palestinians who claim the city as the capital of their future state. The international community views the city’s eastern sector as occupied territory.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 478, adopted on August 20, 1980, prohibits countries from establishing diplomatic missions in al-Quds.
Emboldened by the anti-Palestine policies of Trump, the Zionist regime stepped up its settlement expansion in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounces settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds "a flagrant violation under international law.”
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