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Hamas is sending civilians to die for media coverage, says Abbas' advisor (Palestinian Authority)
Supreme Shari’ah Judge, Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Palestinian people… is not relating to those [Hamas] with ‘the emotional stories of heroism,’ those with the slogans of heroism – slogans that when you hear them, you think that the people saying them are inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque after they liberated it. And afterwards you discover that they are only selling illusions, trading in suffering and blood, trading in victims [instructing]: ‘You Palestinians, our people, go and die so that we will go to the media with strong declarations.’ These [Hamas] acts of ‘heroism’ don’t fool anyone anymore. The Palestinian people… is by the side of the PLO.” [Official Palestinian Authority TV, Apr. 6, 2018]