Social media video from the funeral of Hamas Khan Younis brigade commander Muhammad Yazouri shows participants chanting 'October 7 is a holiday' and calling for further attacks on Jews, according to The Zioneer. The clip highlights the continued glorification of the October 7, 2023, massacre among Hamas supporters in Gaza.
The funeral of Muhammad Yazouri, the Hamas commander of the Khan Younis Brigade eliminated in an Israeli drone strike on Thursday night, turned into a public display of support for the October 7, 2023, massacre, according to social media footage reviewed by The Zioneer.
Videos from the procession, held Friday in Khan Younis, show participants chanting 'October 7 is a holiday,' 'Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews,' and 'October 7 will return.' The slogans reference the 7th-century battle of Khaybar, often invoked by Islamist groups as a call for violence against Jews. One chanter explicitly called for 'revenge' from the Al-Qassam Brigades.
Yazouri was killed alongside two other Hamas operatives in a precision strike that the IDF and Shin Bet confirmed Friday morning, as The Zioneer reported earlier. He was appointed brigade commander after his predecessor, Rafa'a Salama, was eliminated in July 2024 alongside Muhammad Deif. Yazouri was responsible for directing dozens of attacks against Israeli forces and working to rebuild the brigade’s capabilities.
The funeral footage has circulated on social media, with Israeli analysts noting it underscores the ideological resilience of Hamas’s support base even as the organization’s military command structure suffers continued losses in the southern Gaza Strip.
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