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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
End the occupation or Haifa will explode, Mashaal says
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal calls for the end of the Israeli airstrikes, and says Israeli citizens have Netanyahu to blame for the rocket barrage.
He calls for “the end of the aggression and the bombings immediately — the time has come to end the occupation. You, the Israelis: Go out and condemn Netanyahu and his extremist government because of whom you are in the shelters.”
“Until the occupation ends, Haifa will explode,” he says.
Mashaal adds the murders of the three Israeli teenagers “was the starting point for Netanyahu, as if the occupation, the settlement, and the closure are not a blatant violation of Palestinian rights.”
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