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Ruined house in Gaza: 1,382 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during Operation Cast Lead, Israeli NGO B'Tselem has said (Photo: zoriah)

EU countries practice 'secret' diplomacy, Hamas says

High-ranking officials from European countries hold talks with Hamas on a weekly basis despite an EU ban on diplomatic contact, a spokesman for the group has told EUobserver.

"We meet a lot of them from France, from Spain, from Germany, from Italy, from England, from Luxembourg. When they listen to us and we spend a couple of hours with them, they understand what is the real image of Hamas," the group's spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, told this website in a telephone interview on Saturday (12 S...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Ruined house in Gaza: 1,382 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during Operation Cast Lead, Israeli NGO B'Tselem has said (Photo: zoriah)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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