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MK Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Islamist Ra’am party,
...the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel...
demanded on Sunday that party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin resign immediately, following remarks she made earlier in the day casting doubt on some elements of the October 7 massacre by Hamas.In an interview with the Knesset Channel on Sunday, Khatib-Yasin argued that the videos circulated by the IDF of the atrocities committed by Hamas did not show "rape of women" nor "slaughtering of babies."
"They didn’t slaughter babies and they didn’t rape women, at least not in the footage," she said in the interview. "If it happened, it’s shameful... If it had happened," it would have been included, she suggested.
In response, Abbas said he "was shocked" by her remarks, adding that "there is and will be no space in our ranks for anyone who denies or minimizes the severity of the actions which negate our values and also the Islamic religion."
Khatib-Yassin’s comments related to a compilation of raw footage documenting Hamas’s grisly October 7 rampage through the western Negev, which was screened last week for Knesset members, and last month for groups of foreign journalists. The 43-minute-long video was produced by the IDF Spokesperson’s Office and shows uncensored, difficult-to-watch videos, many taken from terrorists’ bodycams during their murderous rampage.
The Ra’am MK noted, however, that she did not personally see the footage, as watching it would "only cause more pain," but said that several members of her party did so, and later discussed what they had seen.
The footage was aired in a closed-door screening where recording and cellphones were not allowed. More than 50 MKs were in attendance, and some broke down in tears, including Ra’am head Abbas, the Maariv news outlet reported. "That was difficult, I can’t speak," Abbas told journalists as he left the screening last week.
Khatib-Yassin said Sunday that what happened on October 7 "even without this, was difficult, was horrible, without even saying that women were raped... What happened was inhumane — I’m a religious Moslem woman, and this goes against Islam — even in a state of war."
But, she said, "we can’t ignore everything that came before, or what came after," adding quickly that "nothing justifies" the Hamas atrocities.
Khatib-Yassin was elected to the Knesset in 2020, becoming the first woman on the United Arab List, and the first hijab-wearing Knesset politician in Israel’s history.
Abbas, the head of Ra’am, has been walking a careful line in Hebrew media since war erupted, denouncing both Hamas’s kidnapping of mainly civilian hostages from Israel and violence harming Paleostinian citizens, without touching on the war’s stated goal: toppling the Hamas terror group’s rule over Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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The massacre saw some 3,000 gunnies burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,400 people and seizing over 240 hostages, including babies and octogenarians, under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast majority of those killed as button men seized border communities were civilians. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 260 people were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists.