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By Deborah Brand
(JULY 26, 2022 / BREITBART) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed two terrorists who were killed by Israeli troops a few days ago as “heroes,” telling their families in a phone call this week the nation of “Palestine” was in mourning for them.
In a video circulating on social media, Abbas is heard assuring the fathers of Abderahman Jamal Sobah and Mohammed al-Azizi that their sons “will reach heaven together with the other martyrs.”
Sobah and al-Azizi, who recently carried out a string of shooting attacks against Israelis, were killed during a shootout with IDF troops in the West Bank city of Nablus.
“We are all mourning,” Abbas told the fathers. “That is our fate and we can’t escape it. We must make sacrifices for the homeland.”
“May God bless all martyrs.”
The aging Palestinian leader also sent his senior aide and rumored successor, Hussein Al-Sheikh, to pay a condolence visit to the families in person.
The IDF raid in Nablus was targeting a terror cell that had been planning additional attacks, Israeli media reported. One of the cell’s chief masterminds was Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade member Ibrahim Nabalsi, who managed to escape the raid but later attended the funerals of Sobah and al-Azizi. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is the armed wing of Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction.
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