Page 16 - TORCH Magazine #8 - Nov 2017

16 NEWS IN BRIEF
Hamas and Fatah sign reconciliation deal
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have signed an agreement ending a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo.
Under the agreement, the Palestinian Authority is to resume full control of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by 1st December prompting Prime Minister Netanyahu to call for Hamas to recognise Israel and disarm.
Belgium suspends Palestinian construction projects
The Belgium government has suspended all Palestinian school construction projects after the Palestinian Authority renamed a school, built using Belgian taxpayer’s money, after a Palestinian terrorist who murdered 38 Israelis, including 13 children.
Belgium o cials claim they had no knowledge of the renaming of the school and “unequivocally condemned the glori cation of terrorist attacks” and “will not allow itself to be associated with the names of terrorists in any way.”
Israel thwarts ISIS terror attack on the Temple Mount
Israel’s security agency, The Shin Bet, arrested three Israeli Arabs planning a terror attack on the Temple Mount modelled after last July’s shooting that killed two border policemen and injured a third.
The three suspects were followers of Islamic State and residents of Umm al-Fahm, the northern Israeli Arab town that was home to the terrorists who carried out the July attack.
Son of Hamas founder stuns Palestinians at the UN with defence of Israel
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, stunned the Palestinian delegation to the UN Human Rights Council when he called out the PA’s human rights abuses of their own people.
Yousef called the PA the “greatest enemy of the Palestinian people.” He added, “If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame.”
Watch the video in full at
www.cu .org.uk/news/watch-son-of-hamas