Yunis Al-Astal, born in 1956 in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, began his careerpreaching the glorification of exterminating Jews as an imam in the Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas.
While Al-Astal’s incendiary rants were delivered in the mosques of Gaza, they were vile enough to gain him international notoriety, leading to his being banned in 2006 from entering the United Kingdom for “seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence.”
