Hamas deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is the acting ruler in Gaza, on Tuesday praised the role Palestinian media is playing in inciting an intifada terror war.

Haniyeh made the comments during a visit to the offices of Hamas’s TV channel Al-Aqsa in Gaza, in which he praised the broadcasters, editors and producers for their role in the terrorism.

Joining in the praise was Hussam Badran, a senior Hamas leader in the Judea and Samaria region.

Badran, like Haniyeh, praised the Palestinian media for getting Arab residents to launch terror attacks and try to brutally murder Jews.

“The local media in its expressions on TV, radio and print, and the continued and updated coverage about the events, proves without a doubt that our people have won the media battle and reinvigorated itself by correctly manipulating it, and that the occupation has suffered an embarrassing defeat,” said Badran.

“The accusations of the occupation that our fighting media is recruiting, inciting and able to do so, is a mark of honor for every Palestinian media man, Arab and free defending the honor of man, his freedom, his holy sites and his legitimate rights,” stated the terror leader.

Hamas has been far from the only terror group waging a terror war in the press. The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, recently described how Palestinian Arabs “insisted on inhaling the scent of the martyr’s blood,” in a bizarre fetish of terrorist worship inciting new attacks.