In press remarks to al-Jazeera satellite channel on Friday evening, Hayya underlined that such British decision gave the zionist occupation regime a reward for its killing of Palestinian children and civilians.

“We are not ashamed to say that we are resisting the occupation. Resistance is a legitimate right in accordance with international laws and resolutions,” he said, calling on the British parliament not to pass the decision to avoid increasing the Palestinian people’s suffering.

The Hamas official asserted that his Movement would discuss this development with the world’s free people and hold meetings with influential British figures to prevent their country from “treating the victim as equal to the executioner, stressing that “there is no political trajectory that grants the Palestinian people their rights.”

He said that his Movement would continue its resistance to the zionist occupation as enshrined in international law, adding that Britain would be responsible again for the terrorism the Palestinian people would be exposed to at the hands of the Israeli occupation state.

“We were hoping that Britain would not be involved in a new crime against the Palestinian people after its disastrous Balfour declaration nearly a century ago,” he said.

Hayya highlighted the fact that Hamas enjoys popular and worldwide support, pointing out that his Movement had won the 2006 elections in the Palestinian arena.

“We hope that our rights could be taken without bloodshed, but no people in the world happened to have regained their freedom without resistance,” he said.

British home secretary Priti Patel on Friday announced she was seeking to declare the entire Resistance Movement of Hamas a terrorist entity. She is expected to present her decision to the parliament next week.

Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, was already proscribed a terrorist organization by Britain, but the current pro-Israel step would also cover the Movement's political bureau. (ILKHA)