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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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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.