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Revealed: the Hamas chief who lives in a London council house

Fugitive who ‘ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank’ was given a British passport and has recently bought a home with £112,000 discount.

Gabriel Pogrund

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Anshel Pfeffer

Saturday October 21 2023, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times

Muhammad Sawalha continued to work for Hamas after he obtained British citizenship, according to the US Department of Justice

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A Hamas fugitive who “ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank” and served on its ruling body lives in London in a council property he recently bought with a £112,000 discount.

Muhammad Qassem Sawalha evaded Israel’s security services using a relative’s passport and fled to the UK in the 1990s, later obtaining British citizenship.Upon arrival, Sawalha, 62, continued to work for Hamas, holding secret talks about “revitalising” terrorist acts in Israel and helping to launder money to support activities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a US Department of Justice indictment in 2004.

As recently as 2019, he took part in an official Hamas delegation to Moscow, where he met Vladimir Putin’s deputy foreign minister, and served on Hamas’s politburo. Times on Sunday.