- Israel discovers that slain Hamas terrorist had a copy of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
- President Isaac Herzog said the discovery in a civilian’s home became a terror base
- The Nazi leader’s book was found annotated and marked by its owner
An Arabic copy of Hitler’s Nazi manifesto ‘Mein Kampf’ was found in a children’s bedroom used as a terror base in northern Gaza, Israel’s president said today.
IDF forces operating in northern Gaza have made the shocking discovery of the body of a terrorist in a civilian home used as a Hamas base, President Isaac Herzog told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg today.
The family home had also housed explosives laboratories, providing further evidence of Hamas’s terrorist activities in the heart of Gaza’s civilian population, he said.
The anti-Semitic and partly autobiographical tract, written by Hitler in 1925, was among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists and contained marginal notes, highlighted sections and annotated post-its.
President Herzog said: ‘This is Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic.
An annotated Arabic copy of Hitler’s Nazi manifesto ‘Mein Kampf’ was found on the body of a Hamas terrorist killed by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said.
“The terrorist wrote notes, highlighted the sections and studied again and again Adolf Hitler’s ideology of hating the Jews,” President Herzog said as he flipped through the book to show annotations and highlights.
President Herzog made the revelation in an interview on the BBC, in which he held up the book
‘This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II. This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza.
‘In a children’s room, which became a base for terrorist activities of the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, highlighted the sections and studied again and again Adolf Hitler’s ideology to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we face.”
Responding to reports of the desperate humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza, de Herzog stressed: “There is a lot of distortion by Hamas. There is electricity in Shifa (hospital), everything works.
‘We are in discussions with the managers. We didn’t go to Shifa, where unfortunately under Shifa there is a huge, huge terror base, actually the headquarters, the headquarters of the Hamas-ISIS operations, right there under Shifa.
‘What exactly should we do now? Leave it as it is and then go through the same motions again in a few years – and you’ll say it’s disproportionate and civilians will be killed?
‘So we call on all those not involved to go to another hospital nearby, and we coordinate this very subtly with all the forces around that place. Hamas is stopping them.’