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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Hamas refuses to let a Gaza dad name his baby Mahmoud Abbas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas authorities reportedly prevent a Gazan father from naming his baby boy after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, saying the name is “forbidden” in Gaza.
The Palestinian news site Wattan24, affiliated with Abbas’s Fatah party, reports Thursday that 32-year-old Gaza resident Fayiz Badran wants to name his newborn after Abbas due to his “love and appreciation” for the president.
However, when Badran recently took his baby to Hamas’s interior ministry headquarters in the north of the enclave, officials told him the name Mahmoud Abbas is “rejected and forbidden in the Gaza Strip.”
Badran, who the report notes is an employee of the PA, reportedly remains steadfast in his quest to name his child after the PA president.
— Dov Lieber
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