Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has announced that Arabs and Muslims around the world must be ‘more creative’ than in the past and let the world know that they ‘are part of this battle’.
Marshal was speaking in Doha, Qatar and was broadcast by Almahriah TV (Yemen) on Tuesday.
Mashaal urged Arabs and Muslims in their own countries and in “the streets of the diaspora everywhere” to turn today, 13 October, into a day of ‘rage’ against Zionists and Americans in support of Hamas’ terror war against Israel.
Mashaal said in Doha as reported on : ‘What is our responsibility?… I call upon all of you, together with me and all of us… to [do] more creative things than what we are used to. We want this to be at a higher level. First, the rage – let us go down to the squares and plazas, to the Arab and Islamic street, and throughout the diaspora everywhere. There is a call on Friday [Oct. 13, 2023], a Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood (Hamas’ name for slaughter of Israeli citizens; see note below -Ed.).
‘But before Friday, and after it, and on it, we want to say to the Zionists, their criminal leaders, and their extremists, and to the Americans who rushed to their aid, that they have double standards. In their eyes the Ukraine War is just, and the Palestinian people’s war is unjust. Send a message throughout the squares and plazas – a message of rage – that we are the people of Palestine, the people of Gaza, the people of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, and that we are part of this battle.’
According to Palestinian Media Watch in the same speech Mashaal referred to Hamas’ torture, rape, kidnapping, and murder of 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, as “a dream come true.”