European citizens keep on learning about more and more Hamas affiliates living in their own towns and cities. And who knows how many others are going unnoticed?
Dutch media reported on Monday morning on the appearance of “a Gazan who cheered on the October 7th attacks in Israel” at a pro-Palestine sit-in at Amsterdam Central Station. De Telegraafnotes that while Mohaned al-Khatib, the Gazan in question, “describes himself as a journalist … in his comments, however, he openly reveals himself to be a Hamas supporter. He is pictured arm in arm with then-Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh.”
PVV leader Geert Wilders said al-Khatib’s reported sighting showed “open borders are a recipe for disaster.”
Radical Muslims enter our country without a trace.
Open grenzen is maximale ellende. Radicale moslims lopen fluitend ons land binnen. https://t.co/zNUHYVv6ag
Dutch reporter Bas Paternotte also commented that “Europe is as leaky as a basket.”
Indeed, not even a week before, the son of a senior Hamas official was arrested in the UK after German terror officials requested his extradition, suspecting him of playing a “key role” in a Hamas-linked terror cell planning attacks on Jewish institutions. Austrian officials also last week uncovered a suspected Hamas-linked weapons depot in Vienna, seizing five handguns and 10 magazines believed to have been smuggled into the country for potential attacks on—yet again—Jewish targets in Europe.
Al-Khatib has also been sighted in Brussels and Ghent, according to Brussels’ Jewish Information and Documentation Center. The organisation says it has handed a 65-page dossier to authorities “containing video footage, social media posts and statements showing that al-Khatib filmed, cheered and glorified [Hamas] violence.”
Despite this publicly available material, al-Khatib appears to have entered Europe without any form of security screening.
JID: Hamas-aanhanger die deelnam aan 7 oktober leeft in Brussel en reist vrij in Europa – ernstig veiligheidsrisico voor België en EU
Het Joods Informatie- en Documentatiecentrum (JID) heeft ernstige aanwijzingen dat Mohaned Al-Khatib, een zelfverklaard journalist uit Gaza die… pic.twitter.com/aut69jG0q6
Belgian conservative politician Michael Freilich said it is “disturbing that someone with close ties to the Hamas regime, who experienced the October 7th massacre up close and possibly actively supported it, can simply walk around freely here.” He will be raising the issue in the country’s Parliament.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
