Palestinians burn effigy of Qatari emir in West Bank

[ResurgentIran]

Qatar and the mouthpiece Al-Jazeera, starting to get more and more exposed

Palestinians have burned an effigy of the Qatari emir in the West Bank to protest against Doha’s foreign policy in the region.


A group of Palestinian students hanged and burned an effigy of the Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in a university in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on April 1.

Reports say the students had links with Fatah party.

This comes as Palestinians say Qatar keeps favoring Israel over Palestinians.

Qatar is in fact the chief financier of extremist militant groups for the past 3 decades including al-Qaeda.

While Qatari state-owned news channel Al Jazeera applies a veneer of progressive pro-democracy to its narratives, Qatar itself is involved in arming, funding, and even providing direct military support for sectarian extremists from northern Mali, to Libya, to Syria and beyond.

PressTV - Palestinians burn effigy of Qatari emir in West Bank

 

[Sugarcane]

Qatari are only people whom i generalize and don't like

 

[Syrian Lion]

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Qatari are only people whom i generalize and don't like

Why is that? Most of them never had a political role to play in the game.

 

[Arabian Legend]

bunch of teenage students...no one give @#$%

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: President Mahmud Abbas on Thursday slammed the burning of an effigy of Qatar's emir in the West Bank, saying it did not reflect the opinion of the Palestinian leadership or people.

"The burning of an effigy of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani does not represent in any way the position of the state of Palestine, Fatah or the Palestinian people," he said in a statement carried by the news agency WAFA.

Abbas added that Palestinians "respect the leaders of Arab countries and do not (seek to) interfere in their internal affairs."

Students linked to Abbas's Fatah party hanged and burned an effigy of the Qatari emir in the city of Tulkarem on Thursday in protest at the Gulf state's foreign policy in the region.

Qatar proposed a mini-summit to reconcile the secular Fatah and its bitter rival the Islamist Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, at an Arab League summit in Doha in March.

The Gulf state has also pledged to invest $400 million in rebuilding Gaza after repeated Israeli military operations against the besieged enclave.

Hamas's spokesman on Thursday demanded that Abbas arrest the perpetrators of the effigy incident.

 

[Hussein]

Hamas is sponsored by Qatar and there are rivalities with Hamas.
But the president was smart to condemn it.