A Hamas official went on the terrorist organization’s TV station to inform Palestinians that Allah had created man “to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies,” The Times of Israel reported today.

In an address broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19, former Gaza interior minister Fathi Hammad praised Palestinian “martyrs” who had committed themselves to the killing of Jews, who he called “the slayers of the prophets, the bloodsuckers, the killers of the martyrs.” …

The Hamas official praised the role of social media in promoting attacks on Israelis. “We salute the Facebook of Jihad, the Twitter of Jihad, the Whatsapp of Jihad. We salute anything wih Jihad in it.”

Allah, he said, had pledged to persecute the Jews and had created man “only to wage jihad, only to move forward, only to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies.

Hammmad’s speech, which is embedded below, was recorded and uploaded by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

In recent weeks, Gaza-based clerics have urged Palestinians to carry out suicide attacks and to “cut [Jews] into body parts.”

According to Israeli security officials, Hammad is one of the Hamas officials in charge of planning terror attacks in the West Bank, including the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers last year.

[Photo: MEMRI-TV  / YouTube ]