Hamas Official Urges People to “Cut Off the Heads of Jews”

A senior Hamas official called on people to “cut off the heads of Jews” in a May 7 video.

The video, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), features Hamas Political Bureau Member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad saying in Arabic on Al-Aqsa TV, “People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off [their heads]. It costs just five shekels. With those five shekels, you will humiliate the Jewish state.”

Hammad also accuses the Jews of spreading “corruption” and acting “with arrogance, and their moment of reckoning has come. The moment of destruction at your hands has arrived.”

https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1391682665514995713?s=20

Various Twitter users highlighted the video in the context of Hamas firing rockets toward Jerusalem and southern Israeli communities on May 10 and the clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli authorities at the Temple Mount.

“This week’s events are part of a wave of terror led by the terrorist organization Hamas, resulting from reckless and irresponsible incitement to commit violence,” tweeted Dov Hikind, former New York Democratic State Assemblyman and head of Americans Against Antisemitism. “Senior members of the terrorist organization Hamas have made public calls for violence.”

This week’s events are part of a wave of terror led by the terrorist organization Hamas, resulting from reckless and irresponsible incitement to commit violence. Senior members of the terrorist organization Hamas have made public calls for violence. https://t.co/N433YfjNKB

— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) May 10, 2021

Creative Community for Peace Director Ari Ingel similarly tweeted, “Just in case anyone didn’t think Hamas was behind the violence in Jerusalem, as they also reign down rockets on the city today.”

Amen! And here is Senior Hamas Official Fathi Hammad to Palestinians in Jerusalem:

Buy 5-Shekel Knives & Cut Off the Heads of the Jews

Just in case anyone didn't think Hamas was behind the violence in Jerusalem, as they also reign down rockets on the city today. pic.twitter.com/XawpbjuVDv

— Ari Ingel (@OGAride) May 10, 2021

StandWithUs Executive Israel Director Michael Dickson also tweeted out the video and argued that Hamas is no different from ISIS.

Hamas = ISIS.#IsraelUnderAttack #IsraelUnderFire #Gaza https://t.co/7HmreI1RXT

— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) May 10, 2021

Israel Defense Force Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, head of Legal Strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, tweeted, “These are the people who were going to take part in, and win, the PA elections. #SheikhJarrah is a subterfuge!” Sheikh Jarrah is the East Jerusalem neighborhood in which four Palestinian families could be evicted, the purported impetus for the violence in Jerusalem.

Listen to Senior Hamas Official Fathi Hammad call on to Palestinians in Jerusalem to "Buy 5-Shekel Knives and cut off the heads of the Jews."

These are the people who were going to take part in, and win, the PA elections.#SheikhJarrah is a subterfuge!https://t.co/dEOWc6ZMVE

— Maurice Hirsch, Adv. 🇮🇱 עו''ד מוריס הירש (@MauriceHirsch4) May 10, 2021