Senior Yemen Qaeda leader calls for knife and car attacks on Jews
DUBAI - A senior leader of al Qaeda's Yemen branch has called for knife and car attacks on Jews in response to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the US SITE monitoring group said on Tuesday.
Citing a video recording by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's al-Malahem media foundation, SITE said that Khaled Batarfi, believed to be the number two man in AQAP after Qassim al-Raymi, also warned that no Muslim had the right to cede any part of Jerusalem.
"The Muslims inside the occupied land must kill every Jew, by running him over, or stabbing him, or by using against him any weapon, or by burning their homes," Batarfi said in the 18-minute-long recording entitled "Our duty towards our Jerusalem", according to SITE.
"Every Muslim must know that the Americans and the disbeliever West, and on top of them Britain and France, are the original reason behind the existence of the Jews in Palestine."
