Top PA official calls for unity with Hamas, Oct. 7 massacre was “a great earthquake”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “We hope that our brothers in Hamas will do a political rapprochement, a rapprochement regarding the struggle, and an organizational rapprochement, so that we will reach a compromise… What happened on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) was a great earthquake and returned the Palestinian cause to the global agenda… Fatah and [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas – despite all the pressures, and perhaps a number of things happened that didn’t have to happen – we have not condemned and not denounced [Hamas’ attack], and we have also not closed the door of unity on our brothers in political Islam. We say to them: We view you as part of the social fabric, the fabric of the struggle, and the Palestinian political and national fabric.”

[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page,
Dec. 16, 2023]

Jibril Rajoub also serves as Head of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee, and Chairman of the Palestinian Scout Association (PSA).

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