Released Hamas member thanks Hamas leaders and Gaza “who defended the honor of all the Islamic and Arab states”

The video shows released prisoner Fatima Abu Shalal, a 41-year-old Hamas member held under administrative detention starting Aug. 29, 2023, speaking shortly after her release as part of a prisoner exchange deal on Nov. 24, 2023, between Israel and Hamas in which Israel agreed to release 150 terrorist prisoners in exchange for 50 Israeli hostages during the Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas’ terror war on Israel – see note below.

Released terrorist prisoner Fatima Abu Shalal: “I am prisoner Fatima Bakr Musa Abu Shalal from Nablus… Certainly there is joy, but it is murky because its price was very high – the blood of our Martyrs in the Gaza Strip, noble Gaza, who defended the honor of all the Islamic and Arab states…All thanks and appreciation go to our brave resistance in the Gaza Strip, and foremost among them general commander Muhammad Deif (i.e., Hamas terror leader), Yahya Al-Sinwar (i.e., Hamas terror leader), and all the resistance, and [Hamas’ spokesman] Abu Ubeida. Allah will reward them for us, will strengthen them, and will grant them victory over those who fight themand grant them victory in Gaza.”

[“Palestine Post,” Telegram channel, Nov. 24, 2023] 

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