For years, the Arab Ra’am (United Arab List) party chairman and sitting member of Israeli Parliament (Kneseet) Mansour Abbas has dodged admitting he met with senior terror organization officials—including Hamas—outside what he defines as promoting a “religious peace initiative” or internal ‘Palestinian’ reconciliation efforts. Recently, Abbas again refused to confirm a series of meetings he held with Hamas officials over the years. But exclusive footage uncovered tonight on Channel 14 News from that 2018 gathering proves Abbas did attend a conference in Turkey where some of the most senior figures in ‘Palestinian’ terror organizations—Hamas and Islamic Jihad—were present.
According to the findings, this wasn’t a meeting about a religious peace initiative or internal reconciliation. It was a gathering focused on a unified ‘Palestinian’ “struggle” against the “Deal of the Century” that the Trump administration was pushing at the time. For the two-day conference, Abbas traveled to Turkey and participated alongside senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials. The footage shows Abbas standing a short distance from Hussam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political terror group and former head of the terror organization’s military wing in Israel’s heartland of Judea and Samaria.
Besides Badran, other senior figures attended the conference, including Hamas political bureau member Mousa Abu Marzook and Mohammed al-Hindi, who currently serves as deputy leader of Islamic Jihad. Participants did discuss the internal ‘Palestinian’ split—but as a necessary condition for advancing the struggle against Israel. The footage shows Abbas and Badran even shared a smaller forum, sitting face-to-face during the reading of the conference’s closing statement, further refuting his denials.
Following the revelation, the Choosing Life Forum of bereaved families responded sharply to the findings uncovered by their research department. This isn’t the first time evidence has emerged of ties between senior figures in the southern branch of the Islamic Movement and terror elements—but this time the footage is unambiguous. The matter takes on added significance given the possibility that Abbas could again serve as a political “kingmaker” in the next elections, despite his photos around the table with senior enemies of Israel.