Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas, March 17, 2017

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March 17, 2017
Name of Author
Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas
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“[R]emoving the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle because it appears in the Book of Allah…[Allah states] drive them out from wherever they have driven you out.

“Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less…Allah did not define the 1967 borders or the 1948 borders. We will fight them [Jews] wherever we can — on the ground, underground, and if we have airplanes, we will fight them from the skies.”Dov Lieber, “Senior Hamas leader: Quran tells us to drive Jews out of Palestine’s entirety,” Times of Israel, March 16, 2017, https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-leader-quran-tells-us-to-drive-jews-out-of-palestines-entirety/.

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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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