Can you post a news source showing Palestinians calling out Hamas for their tactics on 10/7? A demonstration by them on their streets protesting Hamas's butchery?
Compare that with how people responded to 9/11 et al. in Palestine. From that, it's reasonable to assume a large %, maybe a majority, are supporters of Hamas's actions.
Palestinian celebrations[edit]
A group of
Palestinians were filmed celebrating in the street after hearing the local news reports of attacks on the World Trade Center and the deaths of thousands of Americans.
Fox News reported that in
Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest
Palestinian refugee camp, revelers fired weapons in the air, with similar celebratory gunfire also heard at the
Rashidiyeh camp near the southern city of
Tyre.
[99] Yasser Arafat and nearly all the leaders of the
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) condemned the attacks. They attempted to censor and discredit broadcasts and other Palestinian news reports justifying the attacks in America,
[99] with many newspapers, magazines, websites and wire services running photographs of Palestinian public celebrations.
[100][101] The PNA claimed such celebrations were not representative of the sentiments of the
Palestinians, and the Information Minister
Yasser Abed Rabbo said the PNA would not allow "a few kids" to "smear the real face of the Palestinians". In an attempt to quell further reporting, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority could not "guarantee the life" of an
Associated Press (AP) cameraman if footage he filmed of post-9/11 celebrations in Nablus was broadcast. Rahman's statement prompted a formal protest from the AP bureau chief, Dan Perry.
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Arafat said of the attacks: "It's unbelievable. We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name but on behalf of the Palestinians." He gave blood for victims of the attack in a Gaza hospital.
[42]
James Bennet reported in
The New York Times that while "most" towns in the
West Bank were quiet, some drivers in
East Jerusalem were honking horns in celebration; he also wrote that he saw one man passing out celebratory candy.
[104] Big crowds of Palestinians celebrated in
Nablus, chanting
Beloved bin Laden, strike Tel Aviv! while Palestinian Authority personnel prevented photographers from taking pictures.
[104] Annette Krüger Spitta of the German public broadcaster
ARD's TV magazine
Panorama states that unaired footage shows the street surrounding the celebration in Jerusalem was quiet. Furthermore, she states that a man in a white T-shirt incited the children and gathered people together for the shot. The
Panorama report, dated September 20, 2001, quotes Communications Professor Martin Löffelholz explaining that in the images one sees jubilant Palestinian children and several adults, but there is no indication that their pleasure is related to the attack. The woman seen cheering stated afterwards that she was offered cake if she celebrated on camera, and was frightened when she saw the pictures on television afterward.
[105][106]
There was also a rumour that the footage of some Palestinians celebrating the attacks was stock footage of Palestinian reactions to the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
[107] This rumour was proven false shortly afterwards,
[108] and
CNN issued a statement to that effect.
[109] However, a poll of Palestinians conducted by the Fafo Foundation in 2005 found that 65% of respondents supported "Al Qaeda bombings in the USA and Europe".[110]
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