Hamas rejects Trump label of terror group

US President Donald Trump's description of Hamas as a terror organisation has been rejected by the Islamist Palestinian group.

File photo: Palestinian Hamas security forces, march with their rifles in front of the wreckage of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat

File photo: Palestinian Hamas security forces, march with their rifles in front of the wreckage of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Source: AAP

The Islamist Palestinian group which controls the Gaza Strip has rejected US President Donald Trump's linking it to terrorism and says his description of the group shows his "complete bias" towards Israel.

Trump addressed the leaders of 55 Muslim countries in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday and said they must take the lead in combating radicalisation.

"The statement describing Hamas as a terror group is rejected and is a distortion of our image and shows a complete bias to the Zionist occupation (Israel)," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement.


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