Ben Gvir, Chikli falsely claim Abbas held moment of silence for Sinwar

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli falsely claim that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas began a Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee meeting with a moment of silence for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Abbas’s office issues a statement on the PLO meeting that says that it began with a prayer for those killed in Gaza, as has regularly been the custom throughout the war. Sinwar is not mentioned at all in the readout on the meeting.

“This is the ‘partner’ of the Israeli left, at a mourning meeting for the death of the murderer Sinwar. To this holocaust denier (Abbas) who distributes salaries to the murderers of Jews, (the Israeli left) offered to hand over control of Gaza. The Palestinian Authority is an absolute terror authority,” Ben Gvir tweets.

“The leadership of the ‘moderate’ Palestinian Authority observed a moment of silence in memory of the leader of the gang of rapists and murderers of Hamas — further proof that there is no great difference between these terrorists. The PLO terrorists should be returned to Tunisia,” Chikli tweets.