<p>A Hamas fugitive has allegedly been living in a state-funded home in one of Britain&#8217;s most populated Jewish areas, according to a <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by The Sunday Times.</p>
<p>Muhammad Qassem Sawalha reportedly resides in a nearly $400,000 Colindale council property in the London Borough of Barnet — a local authority area on the northern outskirts of the capital city of England. The two-story home with a garden and garage sits approximately 10 minutes from two synagogues in Barnet, where about 56,000 Jews live — roughly a fifth of the Jewish population in all of the U.K. — according to the Office for National Statistics.</p>
<p>U.K. officials designated Hamas&#8217; military wing a terrorist organization in 2001 and later placed the group&#8217;s political wing in the same category in 2021. Home Office guidance denies citizenship to anyone who &#8220;incites, justifies, or glorifies&#8221; terrorism or &#8220;seeks to provoke others to terrorist acts.&#8221;</p>
<p>But despite the regulation, Sawalha, 62, reportedly obtained British citizenship in the early 2000s after escaping to the United Kingdom in the 1990s using a relative&#8217;s passport to evade Israel&#8217;s security services.</p>
<p>The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly said in a 2004 indictment that the alleged fugitive continued to work for Hamas after arriving in the U.K., where he held secret meetings about &#8220;revitalizing&#8221; terrorist attacks in Israel and played a role in laundering money to support activities in Gaza and other areas.</p>
<p>The report noted Sawalha signed a notorious declaration in 2009 that praised Allah for having &#8220;routed the Zionist Jews,&#8221; called for weapons to the Gaza Strip, and demanded a &#8220;Third Jihadist Front&#8221; be opened near Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The Times noted Sawalha was pictured with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2010 and 2012, served the terrorist organization&#8217;s decision-making body between 2013 and 2017, and later met with Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s deputy foreign minister in 2019 on official Hamas business.</p>
<p>In 2021, Sawalha purchased a home using Britain&#8217;s Right to Buy — a scheme that allows most council tenants to buy their homes at a discount.</p>
<p>Barry Rawlings, the head of the Barnet council, told the outlet that he was &#8220;horrified to think [Sawalha] could be living in our midst&#8221; and launched a review into his residency.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will liaise with other stakeholders including the police and the government in reviewing the full history of this case and will take all appropriate action,&#8221; Rawlings said. &#8220;This has emerged at a time when communities locally are in desperate need of reassurance following the escalating conflict in the Middle East, and we have a responsibility as the council to ensure we can give that reassurance.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rawlings said that U.K. Lawyers for Israel, a campaign group, first reported Sawalha to the council in 2020 after learning his background. Officials immediately reported it to the &#8220;counterterrorism unit at the Met Police,&#8221; but a spokesman said no further action was taken after &#8220;the evidential test was not met.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lawyers for Sawalha said in response to The Times report that it contained a &#8220;number of serious false allegations,&#8221; adding their client &#8220;is a law-abiding British citizen.&#8221;</p>

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