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Palestinian football team holds banner glorifying terrorist 2 days after shooting attack

Headline: "How did Hilal Al-Quds express solidarity with the Lion of Jerusalem, Martyr Musbah Abu Sbeih?"


The article includes a picture that shows the Hilal Al-Quds football team holding a banner honoring Palestinian terrorist Musbah Abu Sbeih, who murdered 2 Israelis and wounded 5 others in Jerusalem on Oct. 9, 2016.

Text on banner: "The Hilal Al-Quds Club mourns the Lion of Al-Aqsa, Martyr (Shahid) Musbah Abu Sbeih 'Abu Al-Izz'"

[Al-Mashreq, independent Palestinian electronic newspaper, Oct. 11, 2016]

After this picture was posted online, on Oct. 11, 2016, the coach of the East Jerusalem Hilal Al-Quds soccer team, Maher Abu Sneineh, was arrested by Israel on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and public support of terror.

Musbah Abu Sbeih – 39-year-old Palestinian terrorist who murdered 2 Israelis and wounded 5 others in 3 drive-by shooting attacks in Jerusalem on Oct. 9, 2016. Abu Sbeih, who held Israeli residency status, began his shooting spree at the Ammunition Hill light rail stop and continued to the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood. He was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli border police officers during the attack. On the morning of the attack, Abu Sbeih was due to turn himself in to begin a 4 month jail sentence, after being convicted in January 2015 on numerous counts of inciting to terror and supporting a terror organization. On his Facebook page, Abu Sbeih praised terror groups including Hamas as well as terrorists who carried out attacks and actively called for attacks against Israelis. In July 2016, Abu Sbeih was given a distancing order from the Temple Mount that was to be in effect until the end of October 2016.

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