FORMER CHIEF OF HAMAS –KHALED MESHAAL- — IS CALLING FOR A GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST AND ANGER ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13TH – AS THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR INTENSIFIES.
MESHAAL IS CALLING ON MUSLIMS ACROSS THE WORLD TO PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE — AND ASKING MUSLIMS IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES – JORDAN, SYRIA, LEBANON AND EGYPT – TO JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL.
REUTERS RECEIVED A RECORDED STATEMENT FROM THE FORMER HAMAS CHIEF.
(KHALED MESHAAL / FORMER CHIEF OF HAMAS)
“I call on you, me being included as well, and we are all responsible for this, to start with the things that we are used to, but with a higher ceiling, first of all for anger, to head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday, the Friday of Al Aqsa Flood.”
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THE CALL COMES AFTER ISRAEL VOWED TO RAMP UP ITS COUNTERATTACK EFFORTS –
IN RESPONSE TO HAMAS – WITH A GROUND OFFENSIVE.
ISRAEL INTENSIFIED AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY — STRIKING MORE THAN 200 TARGETS. ACCORDING TO GAZA’S HEALTH MINISTRY, AS OF THURSDAY MORNING — MORE THAN 13-HUNDRED PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED – AND MORE THAN 6-THOUSAND INJURED — IN THE COASTAL ENCLAVE SINCE HAMAS TERRORISTS FIRST UNLEASHED A TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL ON SATURDAY – OCTOBER 7TH.
ISRAEL’S MILITARY SAID – HAMAS KILLED MORE THAN 12-HUNDRED PEOPLE –
INCLUDING AT LEAST 25 AMERICANS – AND WOUNDED MORE THAN 28-HUNDRED.
AND NOW – THE IDF IS PREPARING FOR A GROUND INVASION IN GAZA.
IN RESPONSE — THE FORMER CHIEF OF HAMAS IS CALLING ON PEOPLE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD TO TAKE ACTION.
(KHALED MESHAAL / FORMER CHIEF OF HAMAS)
“Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brothers and sisters of Jordan, from all of your sides and backgrounds, this is a moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility, and this applies to all nations. To all scholars who teach jihad for the sake of God and who preach the fighters and martyrs, to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application (of theories), so that are words are not just words.”
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AND THIS WOULD NOT BE HAMAS’S FIRST DAY OF RAGE.
BACK IN 2017 – PROTESTS ERUPTED ON THE GAZA STRIP WHEN THEN-PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DECLARED JERUSALEM THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
BACK HERE AT HOME IN THE UNITED STATES – THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS WARNING AMERICANS NOT TO TRAVEL TO ISRAEL, THE WEST BANK OR GAZA – DUE TO TERRORISM AND CIVIL UNREST.