U.N.'s Albanese claims Hamas should be understood as a 'political force,' not 'fighters'

"United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese defended Hamas’s rule over the Gaza Strip in an address earlier this week...

The controversial UN figure, who has frequently been accused of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, claimed in Italian that she didn’t think people understood what Hamas really is: ‘a political force.’

‘Hamas is a political force that won the elections in 2005, whether we like it or not,’ she claimed. ‘Those were called the most democratic elections.’

Albanese also stressed that Hamas had organized and constructed much of Gaza’s public services, including schools and hospitals. She did not comment on the repeated evidence that Hamas had operated much of its terror operations from within or underneath these civilian structures, as evidenced throughout the Israel-Hamas war by the IDF on numerous occasions.

‘It is critical that you understand that when you think of Hamas, you should not necessarily think of cut-throats, people armed to the teeth or fighters,’ she told the crowd. ‘It’s not like that.’..."