Ra'am
![Ra'am Party Chairman Mansour Abbas.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/05/23/f3742350-191f-11ef-ae3e-5ba489b5eb8e__h3698_w5547.jpg)
Mahmoud Abass, leader of the Ra'am party, is under increasing pressure, including from his own party, over implying that he does not believe the IDF is committing war crimes in Gaza.
![Mansour Abbas.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/05/23/01fcacb0-18d2-11ef-ae3e-5ba489b5eb8e__h4000_w6000.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War
Ra'am, the sole Arab party to serve in a governing coalition, issued a statement condemning a number of alleged actions by the IDF in the Gaza Strip as war crimes.
![For the First Time: Mansour Abbas Met with the Families of the Abductees](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/06/4d4592e0-7cc9-11ee-992b-1b516497ddb9__h331_w650.jpg)
Meeting Between Abbas and the Families
For the first time since the beginning of the war, the chairman of the Islamic Ra'am list Mansour Abbas came to a meeting with the headquarters of the families of the abducted and missing persons.
![The Step Against the MK Who Denied the Massacre: Dismissal Process Against MK Khatib](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/06/3dea2ef0-7cb0-11ee-992b-1b516497ddb9__h331_w650.jpg)
A Dismissal Process Initiated
Members of the Knesset have announced that they have initiated the necessary process to oust a Knesset member and intend to carry out the dismissal process against Knesset member Khatib from the Ra'am Party, who denied parts of the October massacre.
![MK Who Denied the Massacre: "I Regret It and Apologize"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/05/932b1a50-7c1f-11ee-86b6-1123a72ebd00__h331_w650.jpg)
"I Regret It and Apologize"
Knesset member Yassin from the Ra'am party issued an apology for her statements in an interview, during which she denied that infants were killed or women were raped in the 7th of October Massacre.
![Ra'am Leader to the Faction's MK: Resign Immediately](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/05/da5a9330-7bff-11ee-86b6-1123a72ebd00__h331_w650.jpg)
Ra'am: Resign Immediately
Following her statements, in which she claimed that Hamas terrorists did not slaughter infants or rape women, the leader of the Ra'am party informed Knesset Member Iman Khatib-Yassin that she must resign from the Knesset immediately.
![Terror Consumption Law Amendment Passes Against Arab Opposition](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/25/17c92c90-731d-11ee-b7a1-1906212e89de__h331_w650.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War
An amendment to the Terror Consumption Law prohibiting systematic consumption of terror publications passed a first vote and goes to committee.