The Indonesian government opposes Hamas’s efforts to open up a separate stand-alone office in Jakarta, because it “does not differentiate between factions in Palestine,” according to Hasan Kleib, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry’s director general for multilateral affairs (inset)

Hassan Kleib

According to a report in The Jakarta Post, the fact that Indonesia doesn’t differentiate between different Palestinian factions was the reason for the refusal.


Hamas, however, has been trying to lobby Indonesia politicians to change their minds.
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Hamas planned to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians on public transit systems and a sports stadium in Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Shin Bet security service. More than 30 suspects from the West Bank were arrested in September, according to newly disclosed information.


The terror operations were planned by Hamas’s Turkey-based military figurehead Salah Arouri (inset), a senior member of the terrorist group close to the groups’s leader Khaled Mashal. (more…)