Abbas’ advisor threatens: Oct. 7 attack will happen “another 100 times, if the occupation will continue”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “There’s a reason for everything that is happening. This reason is the existence of the occupation (i.e., Israel). What happened on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ terror war on Israel) is not the reason for… what is happening now (i.e., in Gaza). The main reason is the existence of the occupation. The occupation remaining will cause a recurrence of Oct. 7 another 100 times, if the occupation will continue. Therefore, whoever wants to positively intervene – and here I focus and turn to the international community, and particularly the US – whoever wants to protect the region from a deterioration towards violence, tension, and instability needs to focus on the main reason, or to remove the main reason for all this, and it is the existence of the Israeli occupation.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Jan. 18, 2024]