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A man walks in front of posters showing pictures of Bassam al-Sayeh, a Palestinian who reportedly died in an Israeli jail, during a mourning ceremony at his home in the West Bank city of Nablus on September 9, 2019. Sayeh, 47, was arrested by Israeli forces in October 2015. Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP

Palestinian protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on September 9, 2019, following the reported death of Bassam al-Sayeh (portrait) in an Israeli prison. Sayeh, 47, from the northern West Bank city of Nablus was arrested by Israeli forces in October 2015. "Al-Sayeh is the 221st Palestinian prisoner to lose his life in Israeli prisons since 1967" said a spokesman of the prisoner rights organization. Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP
Notably, the posters featured in the above photo are emblazoned with an antisemitic, inciting poem that originated in North Africa and is popular among Islamists including the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The poem calls for violence against all Jews:
Take a heart that became as hard as iron
Take it and stone [with it] all Jews
Take my spirit that will provide shade to you all
It didn't live while flapping [its wings] from far away
My people, be patient for the dawn is coming
And the sun of victory shall rise again
When one takes into account that al-Sayeh was behind the brutal murder of two Jewish parents in front of their young children, that his supporters would display slogan should hardly be surprising. But by concealing both the slogan's meaning and al-Sayeh's crimes, AFP falsely casts al-Sayeh as a victim, not the accomplice to murder that he was.

A Palestinian protester kicks a burning tyre during a demonstration near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank on September 9, 2019, following the reported death of Bassam al-Sayeh in an Israeli prison. Sayeh, 47, from the northern West Bank city of Nablus was arrested by Israeli forces in October 2015. "Al-Sayeh is the 221st Palestinian prisoner to lose his life in Israeli prisons since 1967" said a spokesman of the prisoner rights organization. Abbas MOMANI / AFP
Sayeh, 47, had been convicted in Israel of authorizing and helping fund an October 2015 shooting attack on a West Bank road in which Eitam and Naama Henkin were gunned down in front of their four children, a Shin Bet spokesman said. . . .The Israel Prisons Service confirmed in a statement that Sayeh had died. It said the Hamas operative had suffered from incurable chronic illnesses since he first came into its custody in October 2015.
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, said in a statement that Sayeh served as a field commander in its ranks and was one of the perpetrators of the attack against the Henkins.