Haley calls for UN resolution to condemn Hamas as terrorist organization

"The Security Council should designate Hamas as a terrorist organization and issue a resolution condemning it, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Tuesday.

'Every ounce of what we do should be against Hamas,' Haley said as she spoke at a special meeting that marked the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War.

Haley, who visited Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this month, devoted a large portion of her speech to attacking Hamas and to fingering it as the stumbling block to Israeli- Palestinian peace...

She charged that some of the Security Council's 15 nation members had ties to Hamas and to other terrorist groups that flourish in the Gaza Strip, but did not name those states..."