Top Hamas official backs Omar and Tlaib after Israel ban

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Hamas official Basem Naim attacked Israel as an apartheid state after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were banned from the country.

“Israel’s prohibition of @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib from entering #Palestine reveals Israel’s existential fear of discovering its reality as a racist occupying power. But this can’t change the ongoing process internationally against #ApartheidIsrael. #WelcomeToPalestine #GazaWaitsYou,” Naim said Thursday on Twitter.

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