Abbas’ advisor justifies Palestinian terror with libel, claiming “settler herds… harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque… attempt to defile it”

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: Mobilizing the settler herds to harm the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to harm its status will be answered by Palestinian mobilization through all possible means and with all available possibilities (i.e., includes violence and terror)… When this fire burns, the first to be burned by it will be the Israelis…: Don’t condemn the Palestinian people but rather the occupation, because it is the cause for all the responses that are liable to take place due to their attempts to defile Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the attempt to target the Palestinian existence and the Palestinian identity in the holy city.”

Posted text on Facebook page: “[PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud] Al-Habbash to [the official PA radio station] The Voice of Palestine: No one can condemn the Palestinians for ‘responses’ to the occupation’s crimes”

[Facebook page of PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Sept. 18, 2022]

Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations.

The terms “all means,” “all means of resistance,” “all forms,” are ‎used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror ‎against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.