Israeli paratroopers operating in the Judea city of Hebron discovered a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and other anti-Jewish incitement in the offices of a charity linked to Hamas, the military said on Thursday.
Hebron’s Islamic Charity Association, which “presents itself as aiding the needy,” covertly worked to “promote incitement to terror and to recruit and channel funds to finance the organization’s terrorist activities,” according to the Israel Defense Forces.
During the operation against the charity, which was said to have several branches throughout Judea and Samaria, troops also confiscated some 165,700 shekels (over $50,000) in terrorist funds, the IDF stated.
Israeli forces moved to “seal off the main entrance of the compound where the incitement materials and funds were located,” it added.
In November 2023, IDF troops operating against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip discovered a copy of Mein Kampf in a children’s room that was used as a Hamas base, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed.
The head of state held up the copy of the Nazi leader’s manifesto during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation on Nov. 12, 2023.
“This is Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic. This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II,” Herzog stated, per a statement from the President’s Residence.
“The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied over and over the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are,” he said, adding: “This is the real war we are facing.”
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas led Palestinian terrorists in invading Israel and carried out the largest massacre of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.
Some 6,000 terrorists from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah, as well as unaffiliated Gazan civilians, infiltrated the Jewish state that day, murdering some 1,200, wounding thousands and kidnapping 251.
