Abu Shahada celebrated while residents of the Gaza envelope were being slaughtered - now the excuses have come
Balad chairman Sami Abu Shahada submitted his response to the disqualification petition filed against him by Otzma Yehudit, claiming that his article from October 8, 2023 did not express support for terrorism. He argued that he was unaware of the scale of the disaster at the time of writing, and that his words were intended to warn against the prolongation of the campaign. The article presents his claims alongside the fact that at the time of publication, residents of the Gaza envelope were still besieged in their homes.
Balad party chairman Sami Abu Shahada submitted his official response to the disqualification petition filed against him by the Otzma Yehudit party led by Itamar Ben Gvir. In his response, Abu Shahada claims that his article from October 8, 2023 did not include support for the terrorist organization Hamas. He denies praising the terrorist attack and explains that "interpretation of reality is not justification of it." According to him, he was unaware of the scale of the disaster at the time of writing, and his intention was to warn against the prolongation of the campaign. The article notes that at the time of the article's publication, residents of Kibbutz Be'eri and other communities in the Gaza envelope were still besieged in their homes under fire, and reports had already been published about hundreds of murdered and dozens of hostages. In the original article, Abu Shahada called the Hamas attack "an important historical event from a military, political, and strategic perspective," and added that "if small and besieged Gaza managed to do this... others can do it more effectively and simply."