Younis al-Astal, Hamas spiritual leader, August 2009

Date
Aug. 2009
Name of Author
Younis al-Astal
Body

Adding the Holocaust to UNRWA’s curriculum in Gaza would be “marketing a lie and spreading it… I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.”Diaa Hadid, “Hamas Leader Denies Holocaust, Objects To UN Plan To Teach Gaza Children About Holocaust,” Huffington Post, August 31, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/hamas-leader-denies-holoc_n_273078.html.

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