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London-Based "Hamas Operative" behind Greta Thunberg's Gaza Aid Boat
(Telegraph-UK) Charles Hymas - London-based Zaher Birawi called himself a "founding member" of the Freedom Flotilla International Coalition, which arranged the voyage of the Madleen aid boat. Birawi, a Palestinian-British journalist at an Arabic-language satellite TV channel in London, was at the launch of the Madleen a week ago, livestreaming it from its dock in Sicily. In 2013, Birawi was named by Israel as a Hamas operative in Europe, and is the head of the Europal Forum, which Israel designated as a terrorist organization in 2021. Speaking in the Commons in October 2023, Christian Wakeford, a Labour MP, used parliamentary privilege to name Birawi as a Hamas operative living in Barnet, north London. "He is listed as a trustee of a UK-registered charity, Education Aid for Palestinians, and publicly available video shows him hosting a 2019 event in London titled 'Understanding Hamas,'" Wakeford said. Hamas has been proscribed as a terror group in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 since 2021. Birawi was photographed in 2012 with Ismail Haniyeh, the former Hamas leader. He has helped organize protests against Israel in London since the outbreak of the Gaza war.