Support for Hamas, the de facto governing authority of Gaza, has been banned in the UK as a proscribed terrorist organisation since 2021.
CTIRU said this month it had received over 3,000 referrals linked to the warCounter-terrorism police have arrested a man in West London on suspicion of supporting Hamas.
The man was subsequently released from police custody and has been bailed to a date in September, with enquiries ongoing.Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: 'Ever since the terrible attacks in Israel last October, and the subsequent conflict, there has been a significant increase in the amount of extremist and terrorist material being referred to us by the public.
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has seen widespread expressions of support for the Palestinian people in the beleaguered Gaza Strip. The United Kingdom has proscribed Hamas' military wing as a terrorist organisation since 2001, extending the proscription to in November 2021 to the group as a whole.
The government's own policy paper on proscribed terrorist groups observes that 'Hamas commits and participates in terrorism. Hamas has used indiscriminate rocket or mortar attacks, and raids against Israeli targets.' An Israeli army tank rolls along a position in an area of Israel's southern border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip on June 13
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