“Jihadis gloat over Mount Meron death toll and call on God to “increase this night of hell fire”

Jihadis around the Middle East took to social media for a macabre celebration of Jews killed at the Lag B’Omer festival at Mount Meron in northern Israel.

Analysts at the Washington-based media monitor MEMRI (Middle East Media Research), reported that an Al-Qaeda supporter posted a photograph on Telegram showing the bodies of Jewish pilgrims who were crushed, commenting: “These bodies do not belong to our people in Gaza, rather they are the carcasses of the Jews who were killed …Oh Allah, we gloat over their misfortune.”

Other posts uncovered by the team at MEMRI included the comment: “The number of those who were killed, the ancestors of monkeys and pigs, is on rise.” The same person also posted a photo of dead victims, writing: “The Jews’ corpses are filling the road, praise be to Allah.”

On Twitter, supporters of the antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hizballah wrote: “more than 20 terrorist murderers occupying Palestine dead.” Another tweet asked God to “increase this night of hell fire.”

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