Grinning as he gives a Churchillian ‘victory’ sign, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg‘s Gaza ‘freedom flotilla’ poses with a Hamas chief weeks before setting sail.
Wael Nawar was draped in a scarf emblazoned with the terror group’s emblem as he stood with other pro-Palestinian activists beside Youssef Hamdan, who runs Hamas’s North African operation, during a meeting at its Algerian headquarters in June.
Mr Nawar is listed alongside Swedish campaigner Ms Thunberg as part of the 13-strong ‘steering committee’ orchestrating the Global Sumud Flotilla, which left Spain last week to deliver food and medical aid to Gaza.
Another committee member, political activist Marouan Ben Guettaia, was also a guest of Hamdan a few days after and later posted a picture of the pair sitting in front of a Hamas flag.
A third committee member, Brazilian Thiago Avila, attended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut in February and praised him as an ‘inspiration’.
The photos, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, raise questions about why the organisers of a mission which claims to promote the ‘sanctity of human life’ were willing guests of a terror group that in the October 7 attacks murdered almost 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250.
Pictures from Mr Nawar’s June 23 visit to the terror network’s North African office were posted on Facebook with a caption: ‘Today, at the headquarters of the Hamas representation in Algeria, a delegation from the Sumud Convoy was received by the Hamas representative in Algeria, Youssef Hamdan…’
The post, by another Palestinian activist involved in the convoy, also hailed Hamas’s terror chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated by Israel last year, as a ‘martyr’.
Grinning as he gives a Churchillian ‘victory’ sign, Wael Nawar, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg’s Gaza ‘freedom flotilla’ poses with Youssef Hamdan, who runs Hamas’ North African operation, during a meeting at its Algerian headquarters in June
Mr Nawar is listed alongside Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg as part of the 13-strong ‘steering committee’ orchestrating the Global Sumud Flotilla
The flotilla left Spain last week and is en route to deliver food and medical aid to Gaza
Hamdan, who often appears on local media representing Hamas in Algeria, told Arabic state radio on the day after October 7 that the terror group had ‘decided to use the language the enemy understands – the language of fighting’.
On the first anniversary of the attacks he attended a rally in Algiers supporting the atrocity, local media reported.
All the flotilla steering committee members – who profess believe in ‘human dignity and the power of non-violent action’ – are thought to have joined Ms Thunberg on the fleet of 20 boats which departed from Barcelona this week.
The news came as more than 300 Palestine Action supporters were arrested in London yesterday amid clashes between police and protesters.
More than 1,500 demonstrators descended on Parliament Square deliberately carrying placards that would get them arrested for showing support to an outlawed group.
The Metropolitan Police said its officers were ‘subjected to an exceptional level of abuse’ in Westminster, including ‘punches, kicks, spitting and objects being thrown at them’.
