In an interview with Al Jazeera News on Wednesday, Hamas Abroad leader Khaled Mashaal claimed that “fifty-one percent of American youth are supportive not only of the Palestinian cause, but of Hamas.”

It was not clear where he obtained this statistic from, and he provided no evidence to support the claim.

Mashaal made his comments in the course of praising the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023. He conceded that the ensuing Gaza War was rough on the Palestinians, but the damage was worthwhile because the war ostensibly exposed the “ugly face” of Israel.

“Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and count

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