Ismail Haniyeh, chief of political bureau, April 30, 2022

Author
Ismail Haniyeh
Date
Apr. 30, 2022
Name of Author
Ismail Haniyeh
Body

In response to rallies at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, during which demonstrators called for Hamas to bomb Tel Aviv and “blow up the heads of the Zionists”:

“The decision of the Palestinian people is that the resistance is the option and the shortest way to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem.”Khaled Abu Toameh, “Terror groups laud Ariel ‘heroic operation,’ call for escalating attacks,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-705537.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Pro-Violence
Threat
Hamas

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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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