Abbas’ advisor justifies recent Palestinian terror as “self-defense”
- Abbas’ advisor: Israel’s “goal… is emptying the West Bank of its residents… it is the right of every Palestinian to defend himself”
- “There is a unilateral war against the Palestinian people, and there are Palestinian attempts to respond and carry out self-defense.”
After a week with 3 Palestinian car bombs, the shooting murder of 3 Israeli police officers, and an explosive found yesterday in a baby stroller, no one can deny that Palestinian terror is on the rise in Judea and Samaria.
Yet denying it is exactly what PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash is doing!
Two days ago, after Palestinian terrorists detonated 2 car bombs and Israel discovered a third car with explosives hidden in it, Al-Habbash whitewashed this as “self-defense” against an so-called Israeli plan to “empty the West Bank of its residents.” He added that “resistance” – a well-known Palestinian euphemism for terror – is their “right”:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “If the [Gaza Strip] scenario will be transferred to the West Bank, the goal will be clear, and it is emptying the West Bank of its residents and carrying out the Israeli plan… What happened in Tubas, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Nablus and what is happening in Hebron (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operations) is an Israeli continuation of the war of annihilation and expulsion against the Palestinian people, and an attempt to empty the Palestinian homeland… of their Palestinian residents… Is there fighting in the literal and traditional sense of the word? Not at all. There is a unilateral war. Yes, there is Palestinian resistance and this is our right, and it is the right of every Palestinian to defend himself... There is a unilateral war against the Palestinian people, and there are Palestinian attempts to respond and carry out self-defense.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Sept. 3, 2024]
On Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, Palestinian terrorists detonated two car bombs 20 minutes apart in the southern part of Judea and Samaria. Two Israelis were wounded. Hamas’ military wing took full responsibility for these attacks. The third car bomb was found on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, near the entrance to the Jewish town of Ateret north of Ramallah. The army reported that the likely plan was to detonate the car bomb as a school bus was passing by. Israeli forces neutralized the bomb made of two gas canisters connected to a detonation mechanism.
On Sept. 1, 2024, 34-year-old Palestinian terrorist Muhannad Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Iswed, a member of the terror organization Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades of Fatah, and a former member of the PA Presidential Guard, shot and murdered 3 Israeli police officers – Hadas Brentz (53), Arik Ben Eliyahu (37), and Roni Shakuri (61) northwest of Hebron, on Sept. 1, 2024. The terrorist was located and killed later the same day.
This is all part of Abbas’ advisor’s “self-defense.”
Muhannad Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Iswed