Abbas’ advisor: “The struggle in all its forms” – i.e., including terror - “won’t stop until the end of the occupation”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The dream of the Zionist idea and the Zionist movement is to empty the Gaza Strip and afterwards to empty the West Bank to turn Palestine into a land without a people that will be settled by the foreign Israelis… Palestine belongs to its residents and its people, who have been living in it for more than 6,000 years… We are in a long and bitter struggle of decades against this occupation (i.e., Israel), and we will continue this struggle. The Palestinian struggle, with all its forms, will not stop until we achieve what we want. What we want is the end of the occupation.”
PA Chairman Abbas’ advisor Al-Habbash made this statement 6 weeks into Hamas terror war on Israel, explaining Israel’s counter-terror response as an expression of Israel’s alleged plan to “empty the Gaza Strip and afterwards to empty the West Bank” of Palestinians.
Posted text: “[PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud] Al-Habbash to Al-Mashhad TV: The Palestinian struggle in all its forms (i.e., Palestinian term that also refers to the use of violence and terror) won’t stop until the end of the occupation (i.e., Israel) and the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Nov. 14, 2023]
Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice.
The terms "all means,” "all means of resistance," “all forms,” are used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror against Israeli civilians such as car rammings, stabbings, and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.
Hamas war on Israel October 2023 - At least 1,200 Israelis, including over 1,000 civilians, were murdered and over 4,800 wounded, in addition to approximately 244 who were abducted into the Gaza Strip (including 110 later released or liberated and at least 26 later killed), in a Hamas terror war that began when approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns and attacking a music festival on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. During the massacre the terrorists tortured, raped, shot, beheaded, and burned their victims alive, murdering entire families and leaving at least 21 children without parents. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 5,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon joined Hamas' terror war starting from the following day, attacking Israel from the north. Occasional rocket launches and shootings continued from Lebanon throughout the war. A ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal began on Nov. 24, 2023, in which Israel agreed to release 150 terrorist prisoners, pause drone surveillance in the Gaza Strip, and allow movement between the northern and southern Gaza Strip, in return for 50 Israeli female and child hostages held by Hamas. The deal was subsequently extended with additional releases, until Hamas violated the agreement and resumed attacking on Dec. 1, 2023.