Egyptian MP calls for “using military force” against “the Zionist enemy”

Egyptian Parliament Member and Head of the Tagammu party Atef Maghawry: “The Arab parliaments need a call to stop and to punish whoever holds normalization or aids the Zionist enemy, and to provide all kinds of aid to the Palestinian people, even if it requires the threat of using military force and using the Arab borders. The security borders and the borders with the Zionist enemy need to be insecure, because providing defense to the Palestinian people is a moral and international duty, the duty of the [Arab] brothers.”

[Official PA TV, July 3, 2023]

The Egyptian MP made this statement in response to Israel’s counter terror operation Home and Garden

2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.

During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.