PA Shari’ah Judge supports terrorists: “They represent the most sublime and great humanitarian cause in the history of humanity”

Official PA TV broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by Shari'ah Judge Nasser Al-Qirem at a mosque in Surda, northeast of Ramallah

PA Shari'ah Judge Nasser Al-Qirem: "One of the most important causes that our entire people and our entire [Islamic] nation agree on... is the prisoners' (i.e., terrorists') cause... our prisoners in the prisons of the Nazi and fascist occupation (i.e., Israel) … They bear and represent the most sublime and great humanitarian cause in the history of humanity, because they are dealing with the battle of defiance with their innocent bodies… The prisoners who the occupation refuses to view as prisoners of war. They have no rights in the [Israeli] state of Nazism… The entire [Islamic] nation should put this cause, the prisoners' cause, at the top of its agenda."

[Official PA TV, April 18, 2025]

Palestinian terrorists do not meet the definition of prisoners of war by international law.