A senior Hamas figure has reportedly issued an open call for violence against Jewish people, language that many observers and rights groups describe as explicit incitement to genocide. Social-media posts and open-source monitoring groups circulated the statement widely; the content includes direct exhortations to “slaughter and kill” Jews and uses dehumanizing language.

The remarks — attributed in multiple online posts and compilations of extremist rhetoric — have prompted immediate condemnation from activists, analysts, and many governments. Experts say such statements, when authentic, are criminal under international law and fuel hatred and violence that risk broadening and hardening cycles of reprisal.