Egyptian aid worker freed by Trump says she doesn't condemn Hamas

By Jen Krausz on
 November 21, 2023

An American who was jailed while working in Egypt as an aid worker and freed by then-President Donald Trump in 2017 said she doesn't condemn Hamas for attacking Israel.

"I don’t condemn HAMAS and never will," Aya Hijazi posted on X on Nov. 7, the one-month anniversary of Hamas's brutal attack that massacred more than 1,200 Israelis. "I don’t condemn Palestinians who exhausted every peaceful way on earth to end their occupation and save their lives."

But she went even further in her defense of the terrorist group.

"I condemn anyone who asks the world to condemn HAMAS," Hijazi added. "You are morally abhorrent with reverse standards. One for the Whites and ones for everyone else. And your standards of occupation, land theft, besiegement and mass murder don’t apply to me."

Trump bragged about Hijazi's rescue and said that former President Barack Obama had worked on it for three years and gotten "Zippo, zero." He probably didn't know at the time that Hijazi had suspected ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

"There is no amount of ingratitude in the world that can beat Hijazi’s ungratefulness to her country that came to her rescue," Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.