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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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Hamas Says No Interim Hostage Deal Possible Without Work Toward Permanent Ceasefire

Explosions send smoke into the air in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

The spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing said on Friday that while the Palestinian terrorist group favors reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such an agreement is not reached in current negotiations it could revert to insisting on a full package deal to end the conflict.

Hamas has previously offered to release all the hostages held in Gaza and conclude a permanent ceasefire agreement, and Israel has refused, Abu Ubaida added in a televised speech.

Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt, backed by the United States, have hosted more than 10 days of talks on a US-backed proposal for a 60-day truce in the war.

Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on a call he had with Pope Leo on Friday that Israel‘s efforts to secure a hostage release deal and 60-day ceasefire “have so far not been reciprocated by Hamas.”

As part of the potential deal, 10 hostages held in Gaza would be returned along with the bodies of 18 others, spread out over 60 days. In exchange, Israel would release a number of detained Palestinians.

“If the enemy remains obstinate and evades this round as it has done every time before, we cannot guarantee a return to partial deals or the proposal of the 10 captives,” said Abu Ubaida.

Disputes remain over maps of Israeli army withdrawals, aid delivery mechanisms into Gaza, and guarantees that any eventual truce would lead to ending the war, said two Hamas officials who spoke to Reuters on Friday.

The officials said the talks have not reached a breakthrough on the issues under discussion.

Hamas says any agreement must lead to ending the war, while Netanyahu says the war will only end once Hamas is disarmed and its leaders expelled from Gaza.

Almost 1,650 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed as a result of the conflict, including 1,200 killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, according to Israeli tallies. Over 250 hostages were kidnapped during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught.

Israel responded with an ongoing military campaign aimed at freeing the hostages and dismantling Hamas’s military and governing capabilities in neighboring Gaza.

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Iran Marks 31st Anniversary of AMIA Bombing by Slamming Argentina’s ‘Baseless’ Accusations, Blaming Israel

People hold images of the victims of the 1994 bombing attack on the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) community center, marking the 30th anniversary of the attack, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Irina Dambrauskas

Iran on Friday marked the 31st anniversary of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires by slamming Argentina for what it called “baseless” accusations over Tehran’s alleged role in the terrorist attack and accusing Israel of politicizing the atrocity to influence the investigation and judicial process.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the anniversary of Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.

“While completely rejecting the accusations against Iranian citizens, the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns attempts by certain Argentine factions to pressure the judiciary into issuing baseless charges and politically motivated rulings,” the statement read.

“Reaffirming that the charges against its citizens are unfounded, the Islamic Republic of Iran insists on restoring their reputation and calls for an end to this staged legal proceeding,” it continued.

Last month, a federal judge in Argentina ordered the trial in absentia of 10 Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of orchestrating the attack in Buenos Aires.

The ten suspects set to stand trial include former Iranian and Lebanese ministers and diplomats, all of whom are subject to international arrest warrants issued by Argentina for their alleged roles in the terrorist attack.

In its statement on Friday, Iran also accused Israel of influencing the investigation to advance a political campaign against the Islamist regime in Tehran, claiming the case has been used to serve Israeli interests and hinder efforts to uncover the truth.

“From the outset, elements and entities linked to the Zionist regime [Israel] exploited this suspicious explosion, pushing the investigation down a false and misleading path, among whose consequences was to disrupt the long‑standing relations between the people of Iran and Argentina,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.

“Clear, undeniable evidence now shows the Zionist regime and its affiliates exerting influence on the Argentine judiciary to frame Iranian nationals,” the statement continued.

In April, lead prosecutor Sebastián Basso — who took over the case after the 2015 murder of his predecessor, Alberto Nisman — requested that federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issue national and international arrest warrants for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over his alleged involvement in the attack.

Since 2006, Argentine authorities have sought the arrest of eight Iranians — including former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died in 2017 — yet more than three decades after the deadly bombing, all suspects remain still at large.

In a post on X, the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the country’s Jewish umbrella organization, released a statement commemorating the 31st anniversary of the bombing.

“It was a brutal attack on Argentina, its democracy, and its rule of law,” the group said. “At DAIA, we continue to demand truth and justice — because impunity is painful, and memory is a commitment to both the present and the future.”

Despite Argentina’s longstanding belief that Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group carried out the devastating attack at Iran’s request, the 1994 bombing has never been claimed or officially solved.

Meanwhile, Tehran has consistently denied any involvement and refused to arrest or extradite any suspects.

To this day, the decades-long investigation into the terrorist attack has been plagued by allegations of witness tampering, evidence manipulation, cover-ups, and annulled trials.

In 2006, former prosecutor Nisman formally charged Iran for orchestrating the attack and Hezbollah for carrying it out.

Nine years later, he accused former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — currently under house arrest on corruption charges — of attempting to cover up the crime and block efforts to extradite the suspects behind the AMIA atrocity in return for Iranian oil.

Nisman was killed later that year, and to this day, both his case and murder remain unresolved and under ongoing investigation.

The alleged cover-up was reportedly formalized through the memorandum of understanding signed in 2013 between Kirchner’s government and Iranian authorities, with the stated goal of cooperating to investigate the AMIA bombing.

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Jordan Reveals Muslim Brotherhood Operating Vast Illegal Funding Network Tied to Gaza Donations, Political Campaigns

Murad Adailah, the head of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, attends an interview with Reuters in Amman, Jordan, Sept. 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak

The Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements, has been implicated in a wide-ranging network of illegal financial activities in Jordan and abroad, according to a new investigative report.

Investigations conducted by Jordanian authorities — along with evidence gathered from seized materials — revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood raised tens of millions of Jordanian dinars through various illegal activities, the Jordan news agency (Petra) reported this week.

With operations intensifying over the past eight years, the report showed that the group’s complex financial network was funded through various sources, including illegal donations, profits from investments in Jordan and abroad, and monthly fees paid by members inside and outside the country.

The report also indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken advantage of the war in Gaza to raise donations illegally.

Out of all donations meant for Gaza, the group provided no information on where the funds came from, how much was collected, or how they were distributed, and failed to work with any international or relief organizations to manage the transfers properly.

Rather, the investigations revealed that the Islamist network used illicit financial mechanisms to transfer funds abroad.

According to Jordanian authorities, the group gathered more than JD 30 million (around $42 million) over recent years.

With funds transferred to several Arab, regional, and foreign countries, part of the money was allegedly used to finance domestic political campaigns in 2024, as well as illegal activities and cells.

In April, Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets after members of the Islamist movement were found to be linked to a sabotage plot.

The movement’s political arm in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front, became the largest political grouping in parliament after elections last September, although most seats are still held by supporters of the government.

Opponents of the group, which is banned in most Arab countries, label it a terrorist organization. However, the movement claims it renounced violence decades ago and now promotes its Islamist agenda through peaceful means.

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