Senior Al Jazeera anchor hails Oct. 7 massacre as ‘day that restored nation’s dignity’

Palestinian Al Jazeera anchorman Jamal Rayyan, one of the network’s most prominent figureheads, celebrates the first anniversary of the savage October 7 Hamas attack on Israel with a series of posts hailing the “resistance” and calling on Arab countries to support it, even if “secretly.”

Rayyan, who has 2.3 million followers on X and lives in Doha, pins on his X account an image of rockets resembling fireworks flying out of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, with a shining number 7 in the middle.

“This is the day that restored the nation’s dignity and prestige,” Rayyan writes in the caption.

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In a slew of other posts – at least a dozen – he publishes on the first anniversary of the onslaught led by Hamas, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage to Gaza, Rayyan lashes out at Arab countries that support Israel, calling them “Arab Zionists,” and urges them “not to bet on the victory of the Zionist entity,” to reconsider their calculations and “secretly support the resistance.”

Rayyan further predicts that Israel will not be able to sustain a long war of attrition with the various fronts of the “resistance” and that Israelis will eventually be pushed out of “Palestine.”

According to his profile on the Al Jazeera website, Rayyan was born in Tulkarem in the West Bank in 1953 and holds Jordanian citizenship. He worked for BBC Arabic for two years in the 1990s and in 1996 joined Al Jazeera at the time of its launch. He was the first broadcaster to appear on screen on the Qatari news channel and “became one of its most prominent stars,” his profile reads.

Al Jazeera has long been accused of sympathizing with Hamas and of having direct connections with the terror group. Various reporters working for Al Jazeera who were killed inside Gaza were terror operatives, according to the IDF. Al Jazeera has fiercely denied Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in Gaza.