Advisor to US general visited Gaza: Palestinians (Hamas denies the claim)

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Source: AFP

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - An advisor to a US general helping revamp Palestinian security forces has made several trips to Gaza, even though Washington considers the Hamas rulers of the territory terrorists, Palestinian officials said on Friday.


A Canadian colonel who advises Lieutenant General Keith Dayton has made at least three recent visits to the Gaza Strip, security officials said.

Washington refuses to have any official contact with Hamas, an Islamist movement the United States and Israel consider a terror group.

A senior Western official with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named, said the advisor also worked for the office of the military attache at the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv, and insisted he travelled to Gaza "in that capacity, on some Canadian national business."



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