Hamas knows who their friends are: Hamas calls on EU to rebuff US demands for freezing of funds. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.)

Europe should reject U.S. demands that it freeze the funds of Hamas officials and pro-Palestinian charities, the Lebanese representative of the Hamas militant group said Saturday.

“We call on the countries that the Americans are trying to pressure not to respond to the pressure,” Osama Hamdan said in a statement. He added the “American decisions … are based on Israel’s interests.”

A similar call was issued by one of the charities named by the U.S. government, the Sanabel Endowment for Relief and Development, which denied Saturday having any links to Hamas and expressed “astonishment at the unjustified” freeze.