Jeremy Corbyn posed with wreath for Palestinian ‘martyrs’ near grave of Munich terrorists behind 1972 killing of Israeli Olympic athletes
The Labour leader apparently posed just feet from the grave of Black September members at the cemetery in Tunisia
THIS picture shows Jeremy Corbyn holding a wreath as he reportedly stands near the grave of terrorists who killed Israeli Olympic athletes.
The Labour leader was said to be attending a service to commemorate Palestinian "martyrs" at a cemetery in Tunisia when the photograph was taken in 2014.
Mr Corbyn insisted he was at the service in 2014 to commemorate 47 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a Tunisian PLO base in 1985.
But pictures show him apparently standing just feet from the grave of Black September members, who were behind the atrocity which left 11 dead at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
In other pictures, he is seen close to where terrorist, Atef Bseiso, intelligence chief of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and also linked to the massacre, is buried.
The pictures, taken a year before he became leader of the party, are said to show him taking part in an Islamic prayer at the burial site.
In an article for the communist paper Morning Star, Mr Corbyn - whose party is engulfed in a row over anti-Semitism - confirmed his visit, saying: "I was in Tunisia at a Palestinian conference.
"I laid a wreath to all those that had died in the air attack that took place on Tunis, on the headquarters of the Palestinian organisations there.
"And I was accompanied by very many other people who were at a conference searching for peace."
But the claims that the monument commemorating those victims is in a different part of the complex from where Mr Corbyn was pictured.
The images, posted on the Facebook page of the Palestinian embassy in Tunisia, show him standing under a red canopy with a corrugated steel roof.
The newspaper reports that this distinctive structure runs beside the graves of Black September members and a plaque honouring their founder, Salah Khalaf, his key aide Fakhri al-Omari; and Hayel Abdel-Hamid, PLO chief of security.
Jennifer Gerber, director of Labour Friends of Israel, told the Mail: "It beggars belief that anyone would wish to honour the terrorists behind the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich.
"However, it is sadly utterly unsurprising that Jeremy Corbyn appears to have done so. Others will rightly regard it is as totally sickening."
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A source close to the Labour leader, who was presented with the pictures, maintained to the Mail that Mr Corbyn was in attendance of "a Palestinian commemoration for those killed in the bombing in Tunis".
They also insisted that the pictures didn't contract his statements, adding that one showing him apparently praying was him "copying the others out of respect".
The Sun Online has approached the Labour Party directly for a comment.
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