Hamas fugitive buys UK-funded home in most Jewish part of Britain

(NY Post) A Hamas leader who allegedly ran the terrorist group’s operations in the West Bank has been hiding out in a state-funded home in a borough of London that has the highest Jewish population in all of Britain, according to a report on Sunday.

Muhammad Qassem Sawalha was recently given a £112,300 discount (about $136,500) on a £320,700 (nearly $390,000) two-story home with a garden and garage located less than 10 minutes from two synagogues in Barnet in the UK capital, the Sunday Times reported.

The 62-year-old fugitive fled to the UK in the 1990s using a passport of a relative and later claimed British citizenship, the newspaper reported.

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