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UN and EU-funded Al-Quds University allowed Hamas exhibit honoring 3 terrorist ‎murderers

     ‎"The Islamic Bloc, the Hamas student association at Al-Quds University, opened its first ‎artistic exhibition this year under the title "At Your Command, Jerusalem", at the ‎entrance to the Science Department.‎ The exhibition included models of the Al-Aqsa Mosque [compound] and of ways of ‎opposing the occupation, from stone [throwing] to car [attacks], stabbing ‎and Martyrdom-seeking (Istish'had) operations. On the walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque ‎‎[compound] model, pictures of the Martyrs (Shahids) of the recent 'Al-Aqsa uprising'- ‎‎[Ibrahim] Al-Akari, [Mutaz] Hijazi and [Abd Al-Rahman] Al-Shaloudi - were displayed. ‎They were described as the 'defenders of Al-Aqsa.'"‎
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Note: In July 2013, the UN announced a donation of €2.4 million (close to 3 million US ‎dollars) from the EU and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to Al-Quds ‎University, the aim of which would be to "contribute to the development and protection ‎of Palestinian cultural heritage in the old city of Jerusalem." [UNDP website, July 2, ‎‎2013 and Al-Quds University website, accessed Nov. 12, 2014]‎

Ibrahim Al-Akari - Hamas terrorist from East Jerusalem who deliberately ran over people at a light-rail station in Jerusalem on Nov. 5, 2014, killing Jidan Assad, 38, and Shalom Aharon Badani, 17, and injuring at least 13 others. Al-Akari was shot and killed by Israeli police officers who arrived on the scene.

Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shaloudi - On Oct. 22, 2014, Al-Shaloudi deliberately ran over ‎people waiting at a light-rail station in Jerusalem with his car, killing three-month-old ‎Israeli-American Haya Zissel-Brown and Karen Mosquera, 22, of Ecuador, and injuring ‎‎7 others. He was shot by police while attempting to flee, and later died of his wounds.‎

Mutaz Hijazi – Islamic Jihad member and released prisoner who attempted to ‎assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a prominent activist working to assure rights for Jews ‎to visit and pray on the Temple Mount, on Oct. 29, 2014. The assassination attempt took ‎place following a conference on establishing times and places for Jews to pray on the ‎Temple Mount. Glick was seriously wounded in the attack; Hijazi was killed soon ‎afterwards when he opened fire on an Israeli police force that was attempting to arrest ‎him.‎


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