Izzat al-Rishq, member of Political Bureau, December 27, 2022

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Dec. 27, 2022
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“We will protect every inch of our blessed land, and we will sacrifice Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque with sacrifices and lives, and the crimes of settlement, Judaization and land theft will not succeed in obliterating its historical features and Palestinian identity.” Izzat al-Rishq, Twitter post, December 27, 2022, 6:09 a.m., https://twitter.com/reshiq_i/status/1607695257646366722.

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