"UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with the families of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists after his Ramallah meeting with PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday.
'At the end of a meeting with Palestinian officials this afternoon in Ramallah, the secretary-general was informed that a group of Palestinian mothers of detained children wanted to give him a petition. Confronted with the situation, he received the group which presented him a petition,' a statement from a UN spokesperson said.
The statement came after the official Wafa Palestinian news agency reported on the meeting. While the UN said Guterres met with the mothers of detained minors, Wafa identified one of the women present as Latifa Abu Hamid, whose four adult sons are serving life sentences in Israeli prisons on various terror charges.
One of the Abu Hamid brothers was actively involved in the October 2000 lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah and another provided weapons during the Second Intifada for deadly terror attacks against Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, according to the MEMRI watchdog. All were active members of terror organizations upon their arrest.
The Palestinian report also quoted Guterres as expressing sympathy for the prisoners' plight, in comments the UN said were 'fabricated.'..."