Hamas Movement has condemned on Monday the US targeting of the Aqsa TV channel after the US congress proposed a draft resolution to classify the channel as "terrorist", saying that the US hostile stand on the TV is considered as a badge of honor to it and championing the notion that anything the failed American president Gorge W Bush hates is for the good of humanity.

The Movement also confirmed that the draft resolution is another attempt by the Bush administration against the resistance media outlets in the region with the aim to formulate the region's culture in accordance to the US vision and in service of the Israeli occupation government.

"This US step reflects the degree of success those TV channels were able to achieve against the America's will, and shows the growing US fear on the ability of those channels to derail its venture in the region", asserted Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of the Movement in Gaza Strip, adding that the US procedure exposes the American and western disrespect of democratic examples.

The Hamas official, furthermore, underlined that the US Congress's proposal was "a badge of honor" on the chest of the channel, and demonstrate the extent of success the Palestinian TV channel has achieved in reformulating the Arab awareness on the Palestinian issue, and in rallying the Ummah behind the resistance project by exposing the Israeli occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people.

In this regard, Hamas Movement called on the channel not to worry about the stand taken by Bush administration which has committed several crimes against humanity, and urged it to continue its "noble" mission against America's arrogance.

The Islamic Jihad Movement seconded Hamas's condemnation of the US step, describing the draft resolution as "another US-Israeli attempt to kill the truth and to silence every free voice in the region".

"Those great pro-resistance channels in the region had clearly frustrated terrorism sponsors [in the US administration] in Washington, thus, such a US hostile stand against those channels wasn’t surprising", affirmed the Islamic Jihad in a statement it issued on the matter, and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC.

The Movement also underscored that "people of the region were no longer weak used by the Axis of evil in this world as they started to have their own way in defending their legal rights and causes, and freely expressing their own opinions on crucial matters affecting the region".

"The USA is no longer capable of playing the Thieve and Judge role in the region by stealing natural resources of the region, and killing here and there, and come thereafter to prosecute those who stand up against its tyranny and despotism", the Islamic Jihad statement emphasized.

The Aqsa satellite TV channel was a duly registered TV channel and operates on the Arabsat satellite which is owned by the Arab League.

PA caretaker government slams US stand on Aqsa TV

The governmental information office in the PA caretaker government under Premier Ismael Haneyya has also strongly condemned the US congress stand on the Aqsa satellite TV channel, asserting that the channel was a legitimate and nationalist TV station.

The US congress was studying a draft resolution of classifying a number of Arab TV satellite channels, including the popular Aqsa TV channel among other TV channels as "terrorist channels" that must be "boycotted and closed down".

Hassan Abu Hasheesh, the head of the office, asserted in a statement he issued on Sunday and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC that the US stand comes in the framework of the US mentality and ideology of dominating "hearts and minds of the people".

"This is a flagrant US violation of human rights and the right of expression that the USA had been bragging of sanctioning and protecting long time ago", Abu Hasheesh explained.

He also added that the US congress stand aims at "covering up America's crimes in the Arab and Muslim worlds, particularly in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, and to divert the public minds from the divisiveness the US administration was and still is sowing in the Arab and Muslim worlds".

Furthermore, Abu Hasheesh underscored that the draft resolution reflects evident "narrow horizon" on the part of the US administration, and demonstrates clear US intolerance to the opposite opinion.

Defending the Aqsa channel, Abu Hasheesh underlined that the TV channel operates legally and has all pertaining permits and license for broadcasting, hailing the channel's role in expanding the Arab and Muslim awareness on the Palestinian issue.

In this regard, Abu Hasheesh called on international and regional media outlets, and human rights and legal institutions and establishments to reject the US resolution, and to consolidate with the Palestinian channel. 

The US has black records on human rights, and was stuck by a series of scandals in this regard in Iraq, Afghanistan, in addition to the infamous Guantanamu concentration camp where hundreds of prisoners had been in detention without charge or trial.