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((short description|Palestinian preacher and Hamas politician))
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((Infobox officeholder
| name = Yunis Al Astal
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| office = Member of the [[Palestinian Legislative Council]]
| constituency = [[Khan Yunis]]
| term_start =
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| successor =
| birth_date = 1956
| birth_place =
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| nationality = Palestinian
| party = Hamas
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| occupation = Preacher 
| allegiance = [[Al-Qassam Brigades]]
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'''Yunis Al Astal''' (((lang-ar|يونس الأسطل)); born 1956) is a preacher and [[Hamas]] [[Member of Parliament|member]] of the [[Palestinian Legislative Council]] for the area of [[Khan Yunis]].<ref>((cite web | last=Rouse | first=Beverley | title=Named and shamed: the 16 barred from UK | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/named-and-shamed-the-16-barred-from-uk-1679127.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/named-and-shamed-the-16-barred-from-uk-1679127.html |archive-date=7 May 2022|url-access=subscription |url-status=live | date=5 May 2009| work=[[The Independent]] | access-date=6 May 2009 ))((cbignore))</ref><ref name="Jeroen179">Jeroen Gunning; p179; ''Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence;'' Columbia University Press, 2008; ((ISBN|0-231-70044-X))</ref> He writes as a journalist on topics like [[fiqh|Islamic law]] (fiqh), sociology and politics.

==Allegiance==
In 2006, he was identified as a Member of the [[Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades|Al-Qassam Brigades]] by the [[Konrad Adenauer Foundation]].<ref name=Jeroen179/>

==Controversial comments==
On the occasion of Pope [[Benedict XVI]]'s visit to Jordan and Israel, he said that Arab governments that welcomed the Pope harmed the Prophet Mohammed more than the pontiff's purportedly controversial statements against the founder of Islam.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.topnews.in/hamas-lawmaker-arabs-welcoming-pope-harm-prophet-mohammed-2165089|title=Hamas lawmaker: Arabs welcoming Pope harm Prophet Mohammed &#124; TopNews|website=topnews.in|accessdate=27 November 2023))</ref>

The [[Middle East Media Research Institute]] (MEMRI) translated his sermon and posted the video for paid subscribers on the Internet.<ref>[http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1739.htm "#1739 - Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in a Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome, and from There Continue to Conquer the Two Americas and Eastern Europe"]. MEMRI TV. 11 April 2008.</ref>
  	
In an interview with [[Al-Aqsa TV]] on May 11, 2011 which was translated by [[MEMRI TV]] he said:<blockquote>
"The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang."
   	
"…All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews."
	
"…In just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil."
	
"…When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate."<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9Fic15V8ChE#at=124|title=YouTube|website=www.youtube.com))</ref>
</blockquote>

==Banned from UK==
He was named on the [[list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom]] for "... engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".<ref>((cite web|url=http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/hate-promoters-banned-UK-named |title=Home Office name hate promoters excluded from the UK |date=5 May 2009 |work=Press Release |publisher=UK Home Office |access-date=6 May 2009|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508060602/http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/hate-promoters-banned-UK-named |archive-date=8 May 2009 ))</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1956 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Members of the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council]]
[[Category:Hamas members]]
[[Category:Palestinian politicians]]

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