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The Palestinian Authority Called for the Murder of Jews — Then a Terrorist Murdered Two Israelis
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
On Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed two Israelis to death — one by one — thus fulfilling the call by Palestinian Authority (PA) Shari’ah judge Abdallah Harb just a month ago on PA TV that Allah should “strike [the Jews] and their allies” and “kill them one by one.”
PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “Allah, strike your enemies, the enemies of your religion … Allah, strike the aggressive Jews, strike them and their allies, O Master of the Universe, and those who support them both politically and with weapons and money.
O Allah, kill them one by one, Allah count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one of them, O Master of the Universe.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV Live, July 5, 2024]
Earlier in the war, the PA Shari’ah judge endorsed terror, saying that “everything done by our people is an acceptable response”:
PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “For more than 75 years our people has been subjected to aggression, ever since the occupation (i.e., establishment of Israel) at the least. It is oppressed and suffering, and everything that is done by our people is a response, and this response is acceptable.
It is our right, and [our people] must not be reproached for this, and it must not be held accountable for this.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, May 31, 2024]
This is not the first time during the current war that PA and Fatah officials have urged the murder of Jews and Israelis.
On Oct. 7, 2023, after Hamas launched its terror war on Israel and committed a massacre, murdering over approximately 1,200 Israelis, Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, called on Palestinians — and specifically the PA Security Forces — to slaughter Jews, “the sons of apes and pigs”:
Posted text: “Allahu Akbar, come to Jihad, come to Jihad.
To all our sons and brothers in the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces throughout the West Bank — today is your day.
Break into the settlements, strike the sons of apes of pigs, kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli, by Allah, they are the most cowardly among men.
Today is a tiding of days of victory, Allah willing –for this is Jihad, Jihad, victory or Martyrdom.” [emphasis added]
[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — Palestine the Occupied Land, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]
For three decades, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the PA and Fatah support and glorify terrorism, and then financially reward it.
Currently, Fatah is doing its utmost to present itself as a leading champion of terrorism, bragging that it has more terrorists than Hamas.
Top Fatah official Jibril Rajoub has also urged Palestinians to murder Jews during the Gaza war. He instructed them to “set out against the settlers with all possible means” — a Palestinian term that includes the use of terror:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “I call on the entire Palestinian street and all the Palestinian political forces to set out against the settlers with all possible means, and any settler who comes to them and attacks them doesn’t need to leave alive.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Jan. 11, 2024]
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor Al-Habbash has taught Palestinians that the war with Israel is a “struggle between Satan and man”:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “This struggle [against Israel] comes in various forms … This is the same struggle between Satan and man, between good and evil, between truth and lies, between those loyal to the Merciful One [Allah] and those loyal to Satan.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV Live, Feb. 9, 2024]
Furthermore, Al-Habbash has said that Israel’s defense against Hamas is a “war against Islam”:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “What is happening to us ([i.e., the 2023 Gaza war] is part of a war against our religion, against our nation, against our existence. Allah said: ‘And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able’ [Quran 2:217]. Shall we not defend our religion? Shall the [Islamic] nation not defend its faith, its Jerusalem, its Al-Aqsa [Mosque], its Quran?” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV Live, March 8, 2024]
Abbas’ advisor has also encouraged Palestinians to go on Jihad in Israel, while denying Jewish history in the land:
Al-Habbash: ‘This land belonged to the Palestinians, and it still belongs to the Palestinians, and it will belong to the Palestinians. … This is the promise of Prophet [Muhammad], and this is the promise of Allah. The Gaza Strip today is the sister of Ashkelon … No one has a connection to the Al-Buraq Wall [i.e., the Western Wall] except for the Muslims, absolutely! Our lord Solomon was not here, his kingdom was not even here. And even if it was here, Solomon is a Muslim, on the path of Muhammad and Abraham [the Muslim].” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV Live, Feb. 9, 2024]
These calls and antisemitic ideologies echo Hamas ideology. One example is this music video by Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, in which they state that “killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”:
Text on poster: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”
Lyrics: “O pride of Salah Shahada, O wisdom of Imad [Aqel] (i.e., Hamas leaders)
[O] the explosives of [Yahya] Ayyash (i.e., Hamas bomb maker),
the Martyrdom, and the lovers of the trigger:
Killing the occupiers is worship that Allah made into law.
Killing the occupiers is worship that Allah made into law.
Arise, O determined men.
The color of [the Martyr’s] blood protects the land…
O masked one wearing a keffiyeh terrifying the Jews…
Call out in Zionism’s face: “Muhammad’s army has begun to return” [emphasis added]
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Nov. 18, 2012]
Another Hamas video includes the very same sentence that the PA Shari’ah judge used to call for murder of Jews last month: “Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t leave even one.”
These messages have filtered down to children for decades. Palestinian Media Watch exposed these two girls playing in the Gaza Strip during the current war, calling Jews “our dogs” and chanting “Death to Israel”:
Girls playing and chanting: “My sister is Yasmina
She is a beautiful young girl…
My uncle is Saladin (i.e., Muslim military leader)
He gave me the book of religion from Palestine
Palestine is our land, our land, our land
And the Jews are our dogs, our dogs, our dogs
They knocked on our doors, our doors, our doors
Like beggars…
Long live, long live Palestine
Death to Israel.
They knocked on our doors, our doors, our doors
Like beggars…
Long live, long live Palestine
Death to Israel.” [emphasis added]
[Quds News Network (Hamas), Twitter account, Nov. 30, 2023]
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
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IDF Announces Death of Major (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, in Gaza
Yotam Itzhak Peled. Photo: IDF
i24 News – An Israel Defense Forces reserve officer was killed by a roadside bomb in central Gaza on Saturday, the military announced.
IDF announces the death of Major (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, in Gaza. Peled was killed by a roadside bomb planted by Hamas. pic.twitter.com/1npx36rQpo
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 17, 2024
The death of Maj. (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, a logistics officer with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion, brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza to 330.
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Hamas Mulled Exhuming Graves of British Soldiers to Deter UK from Moving Embassy to Jerusalem
Yahya Sinwar, head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza, in Gaza City on April 14, 2023. Photo: Yousef Masoud / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
i24 News – Hamas, the Palestinian jihadist group at war with Israel, planned to exhume century-old graves of British soldiers in the Gaza Strip and use the remains as leverage to blackmail the British government, the Telegraph reported Friday.
Israeli forces fighting against Hamas in Gaza uncovered a seven-page document detailing the malodorous plan, dated October 5, 2022. It is understood the document links the plan to Yahya Sinwar, the then-Hamas leader in Gaza, who would go on to orchestrate the October 7 massacre. He was recently named as the new chief of the Hamas political bureau after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.
The document outlined the jihadists’ strategy to pressure the UK government into reversing its stance on Jerusalem following then-Prime Minister Liz Truss’s announced decision to relocate the British embassy from Tel Aviv.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission administers a cemetery in central Gaza holding the graves of Christian and some Jewish soldiers from WWI. According to the Telegraph, the graveyard holds the remains of over 3,000 Commonwealth troops.
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Blinken to Visit Israel to Reaffirm ‘Iron-Clad Support for Israel’s Security’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at the Czernin Palace, in Prague, Czech Republic, May 31, 2024. Photo: Peter David Josek/Pool via REUTERS
JNS.org – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Saturday to “continue intensive diplomatic efforts to conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging proposal presented today by the United States, with support from Egypt and Qatar,” the US State Department stated on Friday.
“This proposal would achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, secure the release of all hostages, ensure humanitarian assistance is distributed throughout Gaza and create the conditions for broader regional stability,” Foggy Bottom added, noting that Blinken will stress the importance of avoiding regional escalation.
“I am sending Secretary Blinken to Israel to reaffirm my iron-clad support for Israel’s security, continue our intensive efforts to conclude this agreement and to underscore that with the comprehensive ceasefire and hostage release deal now in sight, no one in the region should take actions to undermine this process,” US President Joe Biden stated on Friday.
Biden said that he reviewed “the significant progress made in Doha over the past two days of talks” with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
“They expressed the strong support of Qatar and Egypt for the US proposal as co-mediators in this process,” Biden said. “Our teams will remain on the ground to continue technical work over the coming days, and senior officials will convene again in Cairo before the end of the week. They will report to me regularly.”
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