Palestinian Al Jazeera anchorman Jamal Rayyan, one of the network’s most prominent figureheads, celebrates the first anniversary of the savage October 7 Hamas attack on Israel with a series of posts hailing the “resistance” and calling on Arab countries to support it, even if “secretly.”
Rayyan, who has 2.3 million followers on X and lives in Doha, pins on his X account an image of rockets resembling fireworks flying out of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, with a shining number 7 in the middle.
“This is the day that restored the nation’s dignity and prestige,” Rayyan writes in the caption.
In a slew of other posts – at least a dozen – he publishes on the first anniversary of the onslaught led by Hamas, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage to Gaza, Rayyan lashes out at Arab countries that support Israel, calling them “Arab Zionists,” and urges them “not to bet on the victory of the Zionist entity,” to reconsider their calculations and “secretly support the resistance.”
Rayyan further predicts that Israel will not be able to sustain a long war of attrition with the various fronts of the “resistance” and that Israelis will eventually be pushed out of “Palestine.”