Explosives thrown at Ramallah restaurant that hosted "normalization" meeting between senior PA official and Israeli journalists
Headline: "Unknown people threw Molotov cocktails at a Palestinian restaurant"
"Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Palestinian restaurant on Monday [Feb. 17, 2020] by unknown people who said that the operation came as a response to a meeting that they defined as 'normalization.'
Witnesses said… that no damage at all was caused to it. No immediate explanation about the incident was issued by the Palestinian police or the restaurant's management.
In a statement signed by prisoner Yazan Maghamis (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1), from the imprisoned [members] of the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] (PFLP), it was noted that what happened on Sunday (i.e., the meeting that preceded the attack the next day) at the Casper & Gambini's restaurant confirms [the existence of] a so-called 'corrupt system of treason and normalization, which led to a meeting between [Supreme Shari'ah Judge] Mahmoud Al-Habbash and a Zionist delegation.' [Maghamis] added: ‘Our Palestinian people will get revenge on you… The fate of all of the companies, restaurants, and cafes that carry out normalization will be like the fate of this restaurant, on which we took revenge on behalf of our prisoners and Martyrs.'
…
It should be noted that Supreme Shari'ah Judge of Palestine Mahmoud Al-Habbash met yesterday with a delegation of Israeli journalists at the Casper & Gambini's restaurant that is in the center of Ramallah, which aroused Palestinian anger on social media in resistance to this meeting.
Mahmoud Al-Habbash said that the meeting that he held with a group of Israeli journalists 'is in the framework of the Palestinian leadership’s efforts to deal with the plot of the deal of the century (i.e., US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan; see note below).' Al-Habbash wrote on his Facebook page: 'Today, Sunday, I met in Ramallah with a group of Israeli journalists in the presence of Mahmoud Al-Madani, [Fatah Central Committee member and] Chairman of the PLO Committee for Interaction [with Israeli Society], which organized this meeting.’"
The article includes a picture from the meeting between Supreme Shari'ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash and Israeli journalists.
Mahmoud Al-Habbash also holds the position of Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice.