Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that launched the October 7 attacks on Israel, has urged the Australian government to remove its listing as a terror organisation in court documents filed as it embarked upon a ceasefire agreement with the Netanyahu government.

Hamas argued in Federal Court filings lodged this month that the terror listing has breached international law, impeded ceasefire negotiations, exposed its negotiators to assassination and provided legal cover for Israeli attacks that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

The nation’s peak Jewish body said it was outraged by the bid for Hamas to be delisted, arguing the court documents “make for extraordinary reading and they reveal something chilling about our country”.

The documents were filed as part of a

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