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PLO official: Israel's "Holocaust" against Palestinians is even more "severe" than that of the Nazis

‎ “PLO Executive Committee Member and Head of the Department for Jerusalem Affairs ‎Ahmed Qurei said that the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis is the same as is being ‎perpetrated by the occupation against our people, [but this] is even more severe, as ‎they kidnap children, fight civilians inside their homes and places of worship, burn ‎their crops and violate their human rights in the ugliest manner.‎
Qurei made these statements while expressing condolences for the death of the ‎Martyr (Shahid) of Jerusalem, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, who was kidnapped ‎and murdered by a group of settler a few days ago.”‎

Note: On June 12, 2014, Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while they were hitchhiking. The boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. They appeared to have been shot to death soon after the abduction. Two days later, Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir was kidnapped and murdered in Jerusalem in a revenge attack by Israeli extremists. Following this murder, Palestinians took to the streets of eastern Jerusalem in violent and continuous protests. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli ministers immediately condemned the revenge killing in the strongest terms. Israeli police arrested six Israeli suspects on July 6th; under interrogation, three of the suspects confessed to murdering Khdeir.

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