For the First Time: Mansour Abbas Met with the Families of the Abductees

For the first time since the massacre in the south on October 7 and since the beginning of the fighting, the head of the Islamic Ra'am party met with the headquarters of the families of the captured and missing individuals.

The head of the Islamic Ra'am party, Mansour Abbas, joined an evening meeting of a group of Knesset members with the headquarters of the families of the captured and missing individuals, along with their representatives. This is the first known meeting of the head of an Arab party or Arab Knesset member with the headquarters and the families themselves.

The incident occurred against the backdrop of a significant controversy that arose around the Ra'am party in recent days after a Knesset member from the party denied parts of the events that took place on October 7. Among other things, she claimed that infants were not murdered, and women were not raped. Her statements caused an uproar and drew substantial criticism. Abbas himself took a hard stance against the Knesset member and demanded her resignation.