Abbas’ advisor to foreign media: No Palestinian “encourages their children to die. We are a people that loves life, loves peace”
Spanish W Radio host: “A woman was arrested because she incited and encouraged her children to die as Martyrs in revenge for the Israeli aggression. Does this anger and this feeling of revenge concern you?” …
Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “No one [in Palestine] loves revenge. No one loves death. No one encourages death. There is no [Palestinian] father or mother who could encourage their children to die. On the contrary, we are a peace-loving people, a people that loves life, loves peace, and loves life. Our fathers and mothers educated us to love life, to love to give, and to love humanity.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Dec. 12, 2023]
Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice.
Al-Habbash made this statement on Spanish radio 2 months into Hamas’ war on Israel: