Ra’am party demands resignation of MK for casting doubt on October 7 massacres

By Gianluca Pacchiani

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5 November 2023, 5:15 pm

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Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

MK Iman Khatib-Yasin leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas demands the Islamist party’s MK Iman Khatib-Yasin resign immediately, after remarks she made about the October 7 massacres by Hamas.

In an interview with the Knesset channel earlier today, Khatib-Yasin asserted the videos circulated by the IDF of the atrocities committed by Hamas did not show “rape of women” nor “slaughtering of babies.”

Though admitting she had not seen the video herself, Khatib-Yasin claimed she heard from three party members who watched it that it did not contain footage of those acts, but if indeed they had indeed taken place, they would have been “shameful.”