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2025-05-01 Europe
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Switzerland announces its ban on Hamas will come into force on May 15
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[IsraelTimes] The traditionally neutral European nation joins small group of countries that implemented a comprehensive ban on the Palestinian terror group after its October 7 onslaught
A new Swiss law banning Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
and affiliated organizations will come into force on May 15, the government said on Wednesday, aiming to prevent the Paleostinian terror group from using Switzerland
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...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
as a safe haven.
The law, which was approved by parliament in December and came in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel, gives Swiss authorities "the necessary tools to take action against Hamas activities or support for the organization in Switzerland," the government said.
The ban aims to punish Hamas for its assault, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage, and to prevent the group from using Switzerland as a safe haven or carrying out attacks in the country. For example, it makes entry bans or expulsions easier to arrange.
It will also help combat terror financing by allowing the Swiss anti-money laundering authorities to better exchange information with counterparts abroad, the government said.
Bern has sought to pass a ban on the terror organization since the October 7 attack, whose victims included two Swiss nationals. The government said it had done so in line with the practice of proscribing organizations on a case-by-case basis only "for extremely serious reasons."
Four days after the attack, the government said it was "of the opinion that Hamas must be classified a terrorist organization."
The Swiss parliament also voted to outlaw Hezbollah in December 2024. Proponents of the ban said the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group was a threat to international security and that Switzerland needed to prohibit it to take a stand against terrorism.
There have been calls in Switzerland to ban Hamas since 2017, but Bern had argued that by maintaining a channel of communication with Hamas, as they did for decades, the Swiss could exert pressure on Hamas to "comply with international humanitarian law," according to Swiss media reports.
This policy seemed to end following the October 7 attacks, when calls mounted in Switzerland to ban both Hamas and Hezbollah, in a rare move for the traditionally neutral country that prides itself on its diplomacy and "talking to everyone."
Switzerland had previously only banned al-Qaeda and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, merely adopting the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
’ bans on terrorist organizations. Hamas isn’t designated a terrorist organization by the UN, however, which required Switzerland to enact a special law to ban it.
The US banned Hamas in 1997, followed by Canada in 2002. The UK and Australia banned Hamas’s military wing in the early 2000s, along with several other countries, but they did not ban the entire organization until 2021 and 2022, respectively.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
banned Hamas’s military wing in 2003, followed by a ban on the entire organization in 2015. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
implementation of these measures was left to EU member states. Other than Switzerland, Germany is the only member state that has enacted a comprehensive ban on Hamas, doing so in 2023 following the onslaught.
New Zealand and Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
also implemented comprehensive bans on Hamas following the October 7 attack. 
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