{"id":19477,"date":"2019-04-10T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2019-04-10T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:34:12","slug":"german-police-raid-islamic-organisations-over-suspected-hamas-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19477","title":{"rendered":"German police raid Islamic organisations over suspected Hamas support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BERLIN, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German police on Wednesday raided offices belonging to Islamic organisations suspected of financing the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which is on the European Union&#8217;s terrorism blacklist, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said the main targets of the raids were WorldWide Resistance-Help and Ansaar International which are believed to have collected funds for Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, under the guise of humanitarian aid.Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisations say on their websites that they collect donations for people in Gaza, Somalia, Syria and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whoever supports Hamas under the guise of humanitarian aid disregards fundamental values of our constitution and discredits the commitment of many aid organizations,&#8221; Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said the two organisations also supported Hamas through propaganda campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 2 million Palestinians are packed into the narrow coastal enclave. Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005 but maintains tight control of its land and sea borders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt also restricts movement in and out of Gaza on its border. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German police on Wednesday raided offices belonging to Islamic organisations suspected of financing the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which is on the European Union&#8217;s terrorism blacklist, the interior ministry said. The ministry said the main targets of the raids were WorldWide Resistance-Help and Ansaar International which are believed to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}