An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

“[Their] crimes … have surpassed the Nazis’ crimes during World War II. They ascribe no importance to … the international laws and are destroying everything.”

The above was said two days after the Hamas terror organization massacred and murdered more than 1,300 Israelis — including executing babies, massacring young men with their hands tied, raping young women, murdering mothers and fathers in front of their children, and dragging elderly people out of bed to shoot them and post the pictures on social media.

Hamas terrorists also wounded more than 3,300 and kidnapped more than hostages, whose fate is unknown.

But the Nazi comparison was not made about Hamas.

Instead, the Nazi comparison by the Fatah official was made about Israel.

Referring to Israel’s self-defense and retaliation against Hamas, and Israel’s bombing of Hamas’ terror infrastructure after the massacre on Israeli civilians, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki said it was Israel who was worse than the Nazis.

In addition, he referred to Hamas terrorist murderers as “fighters of our people” who “defend freedom” and “the Arab and Islamic nation’s honor,” while accusing Israel of not heeding “divine and international law”:

Text by Zaki: “In a direct live broadcast on the Arab and global TV screens and for this the fourth consecutive day, Israel is committing the most despicable crimes against the Palestinian civilians … in an attempt to rehabilitate its image over its bitter defeat against the fighters of our people who have been defending their freedom and the justice of their cause for more than a century, and are sacrificing their lives in defense of the Arab and Islamic nation’s honor…

The Zionist entity’s crimes against our people have surpassed the Nazis’ crimes during World War II.

They ascribe no importance to the divine and international laws and are destroying everything in the Gaza Strip… Be completely certain that our fighting Palestinian people will never surrender, will not wave a white flag, and will continue to wave the flag of freedom until achieving victory for our people and our Arab and Islamic nation.” [emphasis added]

[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Oct. 10, 2023

The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.