Ismail Haniyeh, chief of political bureau, April 30, 2022

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Apr. 30, 2022
Name of Author
Ismail Haniyeh
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In response to rallies at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, during which demonstrators called for Hamas to bomb Tel Aviv and “blow up the heads of the Zionists”:

“The decision of the Palestinian people is that the resistance is the option and the shortest way to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem.”Khaled Abu Toameh, “Terror groups laud Ariel ‘heroic operation,’ call for escalating attacks,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-705537.

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On October 5, 2019, suspected Kata’ib Hezbollah gunmen attacked the offices of television stations Al-Arabiya and Abu Nawas in Baghdad. Gunmen also attacked the offices of Iraq’s Dajla and NRT news channels. The gunmen physically assaulted employees and smashed equipment, but no casualties were reported. 

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