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Official PA TV newsreader: “A young person [Muhannad Al-Mazar’ah] (i.e., terrorist) was shot by the occupation and died as a Martyr next to the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem... Hebrew media sources claimed that young Al-Mazar’ah shot at settlers at the entrance to the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim… and wounded some of them…
Official PA TV reporter: “[Al-Mazar’ah] left behind an audio recording, and it is as if he is emphasizing his intention to die as a Martyr, or he is taking a step towards the Palestinian resistance (i.e., terror).”
[Official PA TV News, Aug. 1, 2023]
Muhannad Muhammad Suleiman Al-Mazar’ah – 20-year-old Palestinian terrorist who shot and wounded 6 Israelis next to a shopping mall in Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, on Aug. 1, 2023. An off-duty Israeli border police officer shot and killed Al-Mazar’ah, thereby ending his attack. Al-Mazar’ah wore a municipal employee’s vest during the attack to avoid being identified as an attacker. He had a work permit and had been working as a janitor in the Ma’ale Adumim municipal community center for several years.
“Resistance” is a PA euphemism for terror and violence against Israel.
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Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi posted an edited video of him speaking during a visit to Jenin during Israel’s 2023 Operation Home and Garden, which targeted the terror infrastructure in the city – see note below.
Text on screen: “A visit to proud Jenin and its heroic [refugee] camp, on the second day of blessed Eid Al-Adha, to be among our people, the parents of the Martyrs, to convey a message of loyalty.”
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “It’s an honor for me to be in the Jenin [refugee] camp today [July 3, 2023]. Our [refugee] camps, villages, and cities are always at the height of struggle, the height of giving, always at the height of positioning the leaders and positioning young fighters who are sacrificing their souls and their freedom for Palestine, until we establish our Palestinian state on our Palestinian land, and its capital is Jerusalem.”
A song is played while photos of Tirawi meeting people in Jenin are shown:
Lyrics: “O Jenin, gird your strength
Your rifle swears not to deviate [from its target]
Push on the robber (i.e., Israel) like a sword
O Jenin, city of heroism
Even if [the enemy] imposes a lockdown on all the neighborhoods, and there are aerial attacks on us
[In Jenin] you will only find resolve, O symbol of manliness
A rifle will aim, fire, and scatter
With its bullets it will thunder, it will avenge Jenin
O Jenin, gird your strength
Your rifle swears not to deviate [from its target]
Push on the robber like a sword
O Jenin, city of heroism
O voice of the heroes, O roar of the men
O battlefield
Jenin will erase you”
[Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, Facebook page, July 3, 2023]
Tawfiq Tirawi also serves as Fatah Commissioner of Popular Organizations.
He posted this edited video of him speaking during a visit to Jenin during Israel’s 2023 Operation Home and Garden:
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
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“organized, deliberate, and preplanned [Israeli] strategy”
"Israeli affairs expert" Tawfiq Abu Shomar: “The spreading of poison among our brothers who are standing firm on their land since 1948 (i.e., Israeli Arabs), through the crimes of murder – currently the number killed (i.e., of Israeli Arabs) this year is 130 to 135. All of this is part of the organized, deliberate, and preplanned strategy of Judaization.”
[Official PA TV, Talk of the Hour, July 27, 2023]
“Israeli affairs expert" Tawfiq Abu Shomar made this statement after months of internal strife and over 130 killings among Israeli Arabs.
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Official PA TV program And We’re Back, on the Arab village of Al-Manshiyya northeast of Acre, which was abandoned and destroyed during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence
Former Al-Manshiyya resident Ahmed: “The Jews occupied Napoleon’s Hill and began to fire bullets at the village… They began to shoot at the village, and most of the people left. I remember that there was an Israeli [army] officer named Monjo from Kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He had connections with people from Al-Manshiyya, especially with the village chief. He told the village chief: ‘Tell them that no one is to leave the place.’ But what did they start to say? The village chief is a traitor, the village chief sold [the village to the Jews] – and the people began to flee.”
[Official PA TV, And We’re Back, July 24, 2023]
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Released prisoner Khaled Al-Sawarkeh: “Today… the last word directed to me by the Israeli Security Service officer [was]: ‘Say: Bye bye, Israel.’ I told him: ’There is no such thing called Israel. Welcome to Palestine. This is Palestine.’”
[Official PA TV, I Call You, July 24, 2023]
Released prisoner Khaled Al-Sawarkeh was released from prison after having served 21 years. PMW was unable to determine the nature of his crimes.
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The Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch posted a video of terrorist Muhammad Aweis posing with assault rifles. A song glorifying Martyrdom-death plays in the background.
I’m the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ [Brigades]
Our Martyrs (i.e., terrorists) are the glory, the honor, and the victory. Our Martyrs are the ones who lead, their blood flows in us and gives us strength, for they are alive!
Our Martyrs, our Martyrs, our Martyrs - victory!
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, July 18, 2023]
Posted text on Telegram channel: “Our Martyrs – glory, honor, and victory
The lion of sniping, Martyr commander Muhammad Aweis (i.e., terrorist, shot at Israelis together with accomplices)
May Allah receive him
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (i.e., Fatah’s military wing)”
Muhammad Aweis, Suhaib Al-Ghoul, and Ashraf Al-Sa'adi – Palestinian terrorists aged 28, 27, and 16 respectively who shot at Jalame checkpoint near Jenin on June 21, 2023. While the three terrorists attempted to escape the area by car, an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the vehicle, killing all three terrorists. Aweis was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing), Al-Ghoul was a commander of the Jenin Brigade (part of Islamic Jihad's military wing), and Al-Sa'adi was a member of the Jenin Brigade. The terrorists previously committed shooting attacks targeting the Israeli towns of Gan Ner on May 28, 2023, and Meirav on April 17, 2023, both near Jenin.
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Heritage Academy Director of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Foundation Najeh Bakirat: “Every Palestinian baby born in Jerusalem – 18 [Israeli] organizations issue a report about him: On such and such a day and hour a baby was born. They think that every Palestinian baby born in Jerusalem is more [dangerous] than a bomb.”
[Official PA TV, Secrets of Jerusalem, June 5, 2023]
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The video shows Fatah Central Committee Secretary and Head of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Jibril Rajoub giving a speech at the concluding ceremony for the PA summer camps of 2023.
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “We established 648 [summer] camps in which 65,000 male and female [child] pioneers participated... These camps were established… on the principle of the Palestinian national ideology to ensure the awareness of these children who are the builders of the future… An additional [camp] topic is connected to the shared slogan of these [Martyr] heroes, whose bodies are being held by these new Nazi fascists (i.e., Israelis)... We say to them [Israelis]: They [the Martyrs] are moons, they are stars, they are the elite, and they are the ones who sacrificed their lives. They were and will remain in our memories and in the memory of their children and their grandchildren... These [Martyrs] are recorded in our hearts.”
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, July 23, 2023]
The slogan for the PA summer camps in 2023 was “Moons and Not Numbers” and is a reference to Palestinian terrorist “Martyrs” who were killed during their attacks. The PA and Fatah praise them as “moons.” “Not numbers” refers to Israel burying dead terrorists in numbered graves:
The Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties (numbered cemeteries) are two burial sites maintained by the Israeli army for burying the bodies of enemy soldiers during wartime as well as terrorists. They are fenced and well-marked. Graves have markers instead of gravestones. Burial is temporary, as the bodies are eventually returned to their countries of origin. No ceremony is held. The bodies are buried in numbered caskets after their identities are documented.
Jibril Rajoub also serves as Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee, and Chairman of the Palestinian Scout Association (PSA).
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Director of the Yasser Arafat Foundation Ahmed Sobeh: “When [the child] cuts and pastes while drawing, he needs to put Rafah [in Gaza] next to Jenin [in the West Bank], Nablus next to Gaza, Nazareth (i.e., an Israeli city) next to Jericho, Abu Jihad next to Abu Iyad (i.e., arch-terrorists). There are a lot of things like this. [The child] enjoys the national atmosphere that is essential to strengthen his idea and understanding of his history, his cause and his symbols. This is exactly what we are aiming for.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 24, 2023]
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - Palestinian terrorist, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s deputy, one of the founders of Fatah, and head of the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah. Attacks he planned include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972) and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973). It is commonly assumed that his assassin, a former Fatah bodyguard, was sent by the Abu Nidal Organization, a rival Palestinian faction.
The Yasser Arafat Foundation is, according to the foundation’s website, "a public and non-profit organization" that "receives government support" and whose "mission is to preserve, benefit from, and pass on to future generations the memory and heritage of the late leader and president, Yasser Arafat." The foundation emphasizes that it has "independent financial status," despite the fact that they receive "government support." Likewise, the "honorary president" of the foundation is PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The honorary president approves membership on the foundation's Board of Trustees. At the time of writing several PA, Fatah, and PLO officials are on the Board of Trustees.
The foundation was established in 2007 via Presidential decree. [The Yasser Arafat Foundation, https://yaf.ps/page-835-en.html, accessed July 2023]
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The PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports posted a video of children participating in the PA summer camps speaking to the camera.
Children: “At the [summer] camp we learned names of Martyrs, including Muhammad Al-Azizi ‘Abu Saleh’ (i.e., terrorist). Izz Al-Din Salahat (i.e., terrorist) died in 2022 as a Martyr.”
[PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Facebook page, July 17, 2023]
Muhammad Al-Azizi was one of the founders of the terror cell The Lion’s Den:
The Lion's Den - an independent Palestinian terror cell largely based in Nablus. It has not stated an official affiliation and its members come from a variety of terror organizations, including Fatah's military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. The Lion's Den was responsible for numerous shooting attacks mainly in the West Bank beginning in 2022, with an uptick in shootings during September-October 2022. Two of the main founders of the cell were Fatah terrorists Muhammad Al-Azizi and Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, both killed in shootouts with Israeli forces on July 24, 2022 and Aug. 9, 2022 respectively.
Izz Al-Din Salahat – Palestinian terrorist, PA police officer, and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Fatah’s military wing) who shot at Israeli soldiers during a gun battle in the Jenin refugee camp on Jan. 26, 2023. The soldiers returned fire, killing Salahat. The soldiers were in Jenin to arrest a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist and prevent an imminent terror attack. Salahat’s father is a colonel in the PA Presidential Guard.
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Syrian historian Muhammad Bahjat Qubaisi: “I had a lecture on June 24, 2019, at the Abu Rumana Cultural Center [in Damascus], and its title was ‘The Disappearance of Israel.’ Israel will disappear, by Allah it will disappear, maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe next year, but in no more than two years.”
[Official PA TV, An Intellectual and a Cause, July 24, 2023]
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“It is an honor for us”
Official PA TV host: “Your fiancée is with us today. The engagement took place six years before your release. How did you view the relationship when you were in prison, and today when you are by her side?”
Released Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoner Ammar Abed: “It bothered me in prison just as it bothered her outside of prison…
Ammar Abed’s fiancée Yaqin Abed: “I had hope and put my faith in Allah that one day he would be released. I agreed to this to give happiness to a person who had happiness taken from him for 15 years. I succeeded in giving him [happiness]… I encourage every young woman to get engaged to a prisoner, if she can wait patiently, as it’s an honor and [source of] pride for us... It’s the least of the least that we owe them, to give them this thing.”
Host: “It’s their right to be happy and build families.”
Yaqin Abed: “Certainly.”
[Official PA TV, I Call You, May 29, 2023]
Official PA TV hosted released Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoner Ammar Abed, who was arrested in 2002 and served 20.5 years in prison – PMW was unable to determine the nature of his crimes.
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Fatah Revolutionary Council member Iyad Safi: “The masses made calls for Jerusalem and Palestine, and His Honor [PA] President [Abbas] called out: ‘Millions of Martyrs are marching to Jerusalem,’ and also: ‘Revolution until Jerusalem and until establishing the State of Palestine.’”
[Official PA TV, Talk of the Hour, July 13, 2023]
Fatah official Iyad Safi refers to PA Chairman Abbas’ visit to Jenin shortly after Israel’s Operation Home and Garden targeting terror infrastructure in the city:
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
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Official PA TV, broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash at a mosque in Ramallah
Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “A group from among the People of the Book (i.e., Jews) wants to deceive you… and turn you back from your religion so that you will be like them. This goes back to the initial point of the conflict, the conflict between good and evil... They [Jews] have left the path of humanity and followed Satanity. Satanity is an exit from humanity … Satan does not have to be in the form of a demon, hidden, he can also be in your form, but he is Satan. In the form of man, but he is Satan. And they (i.e., Satan-Jews) are still fighting us until they turn us back from our religion.”
[Official PA TV, July 7, 2023]
Mahmoud Al-Habbash is Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations, and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice.
The phrase “turn you back from your religion” is a quote from the Quran 2:99: “Many of the People of the Scripture (i.e., Jews) wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed, out of envy from themselves [even] after the truth has become clear to them..” [Quran 2:99, Sahih International translation]
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PA Parliament Member Munib Al-Masri: “When [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat presented the two-state solution at Oslo, I was very angry at him, because it said 22% for the Palestinians and the rest for the Israelis. I came to him in Tunis, and he told me: ‘[Calm] down.’ Our thought in all this was the two-state solution as a first stage, until the Arabs learn-”
Falestinona host: “A temporary solution.”
Munib Al-Masri: “A temporary solution, until [the Palestinians] will live comfortably and are satisfied, and there will be the right of return and the like, and we will live in one democratic state.”
[Falestinona, Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, YouTube channel, May 24, 2023]
Munib Al-Masri - member of the PA Parliament. A well-known businessman from Nablus, he had been involved in contacts with Israeli businessmen in unsuccessful attempts to foster Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign – the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.
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Mother of terrorist Bader Al-Masri: “[Bader] wanted this. He would always say: “Mom, pray for me,” and play the song I came to you as a Martyr... He asked for Martyrdom, he was not interested in this world” …
Amjad Al-Masri, brother of terrorist Bader Al-Masri: “Bader is one of the young people who put Martyrdom in their minds. For a long time Bader said: “I want to die as a Martyr, I want Martyrdom.” …We are not mourning for him... He and his friends planned to be at my wedding. My wedding is in 20 days. But praise Allah, we are at his wedding. We held an unplanned wedding for him. We are very happy. We are not mourning. People came to congratulate us, not to console us. Martyrdom is a source of pride and we have achieved it.”
[Official PA TV News, July 20, 2023]
A Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam
Bader Sami Al-Masri – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist and member of the independent terror cell “the Lion’s Den” who, together with other terrorists, shot and threw explosives at Israeli civilians and soldiers at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on July 20, 2023. The soldiers returned fire, killing Al-Masri.
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Uncle of terrorist Muhammad Al-Bayed: “He threw rocks with these children... May Allah have mercy on him, he chose [Martyrdom] and achieved it... A year ago he left school, he didn’t want to study anymore. From that day he has dreamed about Martyrdom… His only dream was Martyrdom. His dream was to die as a Martyr. And Praise Allah Master of the Universe [he achieved it].”
[“Quds Feed Net,” Telegram channel, July 22, 2023]
Muhammad Al-Bayed – 17-year-old terrorist who threw large rocks at Israeli soldiers together with accomplices during violent confrontations in Umm Safa, near Ramallah, on July 21, 2023. The soldiers returned fire in self-defense, killing Al-Bayed.
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Brother of terrorist Bader Al-Masri: “Whenever the [Israeli] army entered [Nablus], Bader [Al-Masri] (i.e., terrorist) would go once, twice, 10 times. We tried to prevent him… He told us: “I want Martyrdom.” He asked for it and achieved it. He wanted this, and we rejoice in his joy. Like he wanted to rejoice at my wedding, I will rejoice at his. Today is his wedding day.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 20, 2023]
A Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam
Bader Sami Al-Masri – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist and member of the independent terror cell “the Lion’s Den” who, together with other terrorists, shot and threw explosives at Israeli civilians and soldiers at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on July 20, 2023. The soldiers returned fire, killing Al-Masri.
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Director-General of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports’ General Administration of Youth Affairs Muhammad Sbeihat: “This [summer camp] program is being implemented for the 7th consecutive year… It takes care of an age group that we call the young pioneer group, aged 13-17. This program was launched in 650 summer camps this year [2023], which is a record number. These camps are taking in 65,000 young male and female pioneers, and this is also a record number… Among the most important messages of this [summer camp] program is the national message. Therefore we always give a general slogan with a national aspect to all the camps ... This year [2023], we gave the slogan “Moons and Not Numbers”, in a clear reference to the Martyrs (i.e., dead terrorists), and especially to the cause of the Martyrs whose bodies are being held [by Israel]… This is not just spreading slogans but rather part of the camp program in all the camps: A fixed part of the program is instilling knowledge about the cause of the Martyrs whose bodies are being held, their number, their burial sites, and all the details... It is very important to instill knowledge into this generation.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 13, 2023]
The reference to “Martyrs” not being “numbers” refers to Israel burying dead terrorists in numbered graves:
The Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties (numbered cemeteries) are two burial sites maintained by the Israeli army for burying the bodies of enemy soldiers during wartime as well as terrorists. They are fenced and well-marked. Graves have markers instead of gravestones. Burial is temporary, as the bodies are eventually returned to their countries of origin. No ceremony is held. The bodies are buried in numbered caskets after their identities are documented.
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Text on screen: “Who are you, pioneer?”
The video shows children participating in the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports summer camps speaking
Girl: “My sister is Martyr Mai Afaneh (i.e., terrorist)”
Boy 1: “My friend is heroic Martyr Fayez Damdoum (i.e., terrorist).”
Boy 2: “I am the friend of Martyr Fayez Damdoum, who died as a Martyr on Oct. 1, 2022.”
Boy 3: “Martyr Yamen Jaffal and Martyr Nassim Abu Roumi (i.e., terrorists) are my friends.”
Text on screen: “And who are our Martyrs?”
The children repeat the same line one after the other:
Children: “Our Martyrs are moons and not numbers”
[PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Facebook page, July 17, 2023]
Mai Afaneh – 28-year-old Palestinian terrorist who lightly wounded 1 Israeli soldier during a car ramming and stabbing attack targeting soldiers at a construction site near Hizme north of Jerusalem on June 16, 2021. The soldiers shot and killed her in self-defense. In 2021, Afaneh had written on her Facebook page: “We will stay here, either Martyrdom or victory,” and “We will give birth to children even if we know that they will be Martyrs in the future.”
Fayez Damdoum – 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who attempted to throw Molotov cocktails at Israeli security forces during violent riots in Al-Eizariya, near Jerusalem, on Oct. 1, 2022. The forces shot and killed Damdoum in self-defense.
Yamen Jaffal – 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist who threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli military post near Abu Dis on March 6, 2022; Israeli soldiers at the post shot and killed him in self-defense.
Nassim Abu Roumi and Hamoudeh Al-Sheikh – 14-year-old Palestinian terrorists who stabbed and wounded an Israeli police officer at the Chain Gate of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on Aug. 15, 2019. Abu Roumi and Al-Sheikh were shot and killed during the attack; a Waqf guard was also wounded by the gunfire.
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PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The cause of Palestine and the struggle in Palestine is the greatest existential struggle, and the global struggle that is taking place here. It began in the West, where the idea ripened to invent Israel, to invent a state of Jews, a state for the Jews. An invention – this never existed in history… Allah has written, “I will surely overcome, I and My messengers” [Quran 58:21, Sahih International translation]. Do not doubt that we will triumph. We are certain that we will triumph, and we are certain that Palestine will be liberated in its entirety, all of Palestine. By the way, they [the Jews] also know this for a certainty. Therefore, we have heard [Israeli PM] Netanyahu say that he wishes that Israel will reach its 80th year. He has doubt, and we are certain [it will not].”
[Official PA TV, July 7, 2023]
Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations.
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Children participating in PA summer camps in the Gaza Strip are taught to honor past terrorist “Martyrs” and to envision themselves as “Martyrs.” In a procession, children held signs that read: “I am Martyr number,” followed by a different number for each child.
PA summer camp sports instruction board member Mirfat Al-Baitar: “We came to participate in launching the summer camps named ‘Moons and Not Numbers,’ which are dedicated to the Martyrs’ bodies that are being held by the Israeli occupation. For the sports event we picked the name of Nasser Abu Hmeid (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 7), because he is the latest Martyr of medical neglect in the occupation’s prisons, and his body is still being held by the occupation.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 15, 2023]
Nasser Abu Hmeid - Palestinian terrorist responsible for the murder of 7 Israelis, and a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing) in Ramallah. : Those murdered: Eli Cohen in a shooting attack in central Israel on Dec. 21, 2000; Husband and wife Binyamin and Talia Kahane in a drive-by shooting attack near Ofra, north of Jerusalem, on Dec. 31, 2000; Gadi Rejwan in a shooting attack in the Jerusalem on Feb. 27, 2002; and Yosef Habi, Eli Dahan, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat in an attack at the Seafood Market and Mifgash Hasteak restaurants in Tel Aviv on March 5, 2002. Abu Hmeid who was serving 7 life sentences, was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2021 and died on Dec. 20, 2022.
Libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners - the PA deceivingly claims that Israel abuses Palestinian prisoners through medical neglect, medical experiments, and by intentionally infecting them with diseases. However, the International Red Cross regularly visits these prisoners and has not documented or accused Israel of any of these claims. Likewise, lists of demands occasionally issued by the prisoners during hunger strikes - such as during one in 2011 - include no demands relating to these claims. PMW has documented prisoners talking about how they "lack nothing" in the prisons, and that "the worst thing about Israeli prison" is riding in a prison vehicle that has no padding on the seat. When PMW contacted the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2007 regarding PA claims of medical experiments on prisoners, the ministry responded: "Clinical testing on prisoners in prison was never approved, never performed, and is most certainly not taking place at present."
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The video shows children participating in the PA summer camps.
Girl 1: “In your opinion, what are we learning in our summer camps?” …
Girl 2: “In the national education corner, we get to know our land’s prisoners, its history, and its holy sites. The most important thing is that you remember that our Martyrs are moons and not numbers.”
Summer camp participants enact a play in which “Israeli soldiers” with “guns” attack a Palestinian kneeling in prayer.
Children hold signs with the names of terrorist “Martyrs” written on them, including 2 murderers:
“Martyr Baha Al-Awawdeh” (i.e., terrorist)
“Martyr Omar Abu Laila” (i.e., terrorist who murdered 2)
“Martyr Muhammad Al-Faqih” (i.e., terrorist who murdered 1)
[PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Facebook page, July 12, 2023]
Baha Al-Awawdeh – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who wounded Druze Israeli soldier Shadi Ibrahim, 20, in a car ramming attack near Negohot west of Hebron on May 14, 2020. Israeli soldiers at the scene shot and killed Al-Awawdeh, thereby ending his attack.
Omar Abu Laila – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed and murdered Israeli soldier Gal Keidan, and shot and murdered Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, a father of 12, at Ariel Junction on March 17, 2019. Abu Laila was killed on March 19, 2019, during an exchange of gunfire with Israeli soldiers who attempted to arrest him.
Muhammad Al-Faqih - 29-year-old Palestinian terrorist and Hamas member who had previously been imprisoned for planning terror attacks when affiliated with the Islamic Jihad. Together with Muhammad Amaireh, a Palestinian terrorist and a member of the PA police force, Al-Faqih murdered Rabbi Michael Mark, a 48-year-old father of ten, in a shooting attack on July 1, 2016 on Route 60 in the southern Har Hebron region. Al-Faqih opened fire on the Mark family's car causing the vehicle to overturn and crash. Amaireh was driving the car from which Al-Faqih shot at them. Rabbi Mark’s wife Chava, 40, was also seriously wounded in the attack, and two of their children were injured – their daughter Tehila, 15, and their son Pedayah, 16. Al-Faqih and Amaireh fled the scene, but were located by the Israeli army on July 27, 2016. Al-Faqih was killed when he shot at Israeli soldiers who came to arrest him. Amaireh is serving 2 life sentences and was also ordered to pay the family 250,000 in compensation.
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The sentence “A fighter avenges his comrade with gunshots and inherits his rifle” refers to the video in the background, which shows a terrorist getting out of a car, shooting, and getting back in. Apparently wounded or dead he falls from the car and a fellow terrorist gets out, takes the fallen terrorist’s rifle and starts shooting as well until he too is hit.
Posted text: “A scene of heroism and manliness in Jenin: A fighter avenges his comrade with gunshots and inherits his rifle to announce continued fighting
If I fall, take my place, O my comrade in the struggle
Carry my weapon and do not fear my blood dripping from the weapon…
I have not died – I still call to you through the wound
Therefore, carry your weapon, O my comrade, and turn towards the fighting”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, July 9, 2023]
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
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Official PA TV newsreader: “Qalqilya District Governor and representatives of a number of institutions toured the summer camps organized by the [PLO] Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, whose headline is ‘Moons and Not Numbers,’ and whose goal is to instill the national concepts in the souls of the male and female participants.” …
Qalqilya District Governor Rafe’ Rawajbeh: “The [summer] camps are establishing a generation that is aware and young people who internalize their cause… What the Palestinian cause is… and what the obligations of this generation are towards this cause, towards the liberation, independence, and establishment of our independent Palestinian state.”
Official PA TV reporter: “Sixteen [summer] camps throughout the district, all of them bearing the names of Martyrs, with a message expressing loyalty to this section [of society] that has sacrificed and watered the land of the homeland with its blood, for freedom and liberation from the occupation.”
Text on sign: “Martyr Daoud Zubeidi group, May 15, 2022 (i.e., terrorist, and date he was killed)”
[Official PA TV News, July 16, 2023]
Daoud Zubeidi – Palestinian terrorist and member of the PA Security Forces who shot at Israeli soldiers in Jenin on May 13, 2022. Israeli Police officer Noam Raz was murdered in the attack. Zubeidi was wounded in the exchange of fire and died of his wounds two days later.
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Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam: “We will fight this occupation, and the Fatah Movement has renewed the promise to its public to ambush [the enemy]… We will always be at the front lines, and we will not hesitate to dish out twice as much as we have received to this occupation… We will urge [the people] towards there being true resistance to the occupier.”
[Official PA TV News, June 17, 2023]
Sabri Saidam also serves as Fatah Revolutionary Council Deputy Secretary and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor for communications and information technology, and he is a former PA Minister of Education and Higher Education.
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Father of terrorist Abd Al-Jawad Saleh: “We were left with three [children] in his place, and the three will go as ransom for Palestine, and every inch of Palestine. Allah willing, we’ll all follow his path and his mission. Allah willing, we’ll all go as Martyrs following him. Happy is he. This year we were supposed to accompany him as a groom to his wedding. Praise Allah, he moved it forward and we accompanied him as a groom [in Paradise].”
[Official PA TV News, July 8, 2023]
A Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam
Abd Al-Jawad Saleh – 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist who was shot and killed while participating in violent confrontations against Israeli civilians and soldiers outside of Umm Safa near Ramallah on July 7, 2023.
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The video shows PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas giving a speech in the Jenin refugee camp on July 12, 2023. Standing near Abbas are PA President Mahmoud Shtayyeh, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul, and PLO Executive Committee Secretary Hussein Al-Sheikh. Abbas’ visit comes following Israel’s 2023 Operation Home and Garden targeting terror infrastructure in Jenin – see note below.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We will remain in our land, we will not leave it. We will not leave it, until Allah inherits the land and what’s on it, until they [the Jews] leave our land after having seized it for dozens of years… Everyone is working to remain in the homeland, until we liberate this homeland in its entirety and build – as I said – the independent State of Palestine…We congratulate all our righteous Martyrs, all our free soldiers, all our free prisoners, and all the wounded and expelled – may this homeland be for everyone, and it will be open to everyone, and the 14 million Palestinian [refugees] will return to it.”
[Official PA TV YouTube channel, July 12, 2023]
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
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Egyptian Parliament Member and Head of the Tagammu party Atef Maghawry: “The Arab parliaments need a call to stop and to punish whoever holds normalization or aids the Zionist enemy, and to provide all kinds of aid to the Palestinian people, even if it requires the threat of using military force and using the Arab borders. The security borders and the borders with the Zionist enemy need to be insecure, because providing defense to the Palestinian people is a moral and international duty, the duty of the [Arab] brothers.”
[Official PA TV, July 3, 2023]
The Egyptian MP made this statement in response to Israel’s counter terror operation Home and Garden
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
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The video shows four unidentified men driving in a car and singing; two of the men are holding assault rifles.
Lyrics: “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is holy land, and we will never belittle its value…
Rise up against the colonialism (i.e., Israel’s)
Cursed are the traitor’s forefathers
We will live and die as revolutionaries…
I won't lay down my weapon and won't accept a replacement for my homeland”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, June 23, 2023]
Posted text on Facebook page: “‘I won't lay down my weapon’ A video filmed in the past in which Martyrs and wanted men from the Jenin Brigade (i.e., Palestinian terror cell affiliated with Islamic Jihad) appear, while singing the songs of the Fatah Movement.”
A Fatah official also posted this video, but claimed the men belonged to Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades:
Posted text: “Martyrs and expelled men of the Al-Quds Brigades (i.e., Islamic Jihad’s military wing) sing Fatah songs”
[Head of Fatah Commission of Information and Culture’s Information Office Munir Al-Jaghoub, Twitter account, June 23, 2023]
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Official PA TV News interviews the mother of dead terrorist Khairy Shahin who shot at Israeli forces together with an accomplice
Mother of terrorist Khairy Shahin: Praise Allah, people loved him. Praise Allah, he asked for Martyrdom and achieved it.”
[Official PA TV News, July 7, 2023]
Khairy Shahin and Hamza Maqbul – Palestinian terrorists aged 34 and 32 respectively who shot at Israeli forces while resisting arrest in Nablus on July 7, 2023. The forces returned fire, killing the terrorists. Shahin and Maqbul were wanted for shooting at an Israeli police car in Har Bracha, south of Nablus, on July 5, 2023.
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Interviewer: “If these are the last three minutes in your life, what do you want to tell your mother?”
Terrorist Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “Forgive me, do not cry over me, and I love you… I’m not afraid of the [Israeli] army. I‘ll die as a Martyr and take the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Interviewer: “Why do you want to die as a Martyr? Why do you want to take Al-Aqsa?”
Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “For God, for the land, and for the homeland.”
Interviewer: “What will you find in Paradise?”
Ashraf Al-Sa’adi: “Prophet [Muhammad] and the Dark-Eyed Virgins.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, July 9, 2023]
Islamic tradition teaches that a Martyr marries 72 Virgins in Paradise
Posted text on Telegram channel: “‘Forgive me [mother] and do not cry over me, I love you, and I am not afraid of the [Israeli] army.’
Martyr Ashraf Al-Sa’adi (i.e., terrorist) who ascended to Heaven in an Israeli aircraft strike in Jenin a number of days ago.”
Muhammad Aweis, Suhaib Al-Ghoul, and Ashraf Al-Sa'adi – Palestinian terrorists aged 28, 27, and 16 respectively who shot at Jalame checkpoint near Jenin on June 21, 2023. While the three terrorists attempted to escape the area by car, an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the vehicle, killing all three terrorists. Aweis was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing), Al-Ghoul was a commander of the Jenin Brigade (part of Islamic Jihad's military wing), and Al-Sa'adi was a member of the Jenin Brigade. The terrorists previously committed shooting attacks targeting the Israeli towns of Gan Ner on May 28, 2023, and Meirav on April 17, 2023, both near Jenin.
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Prisoner Husam Omar’s fiancée Ala’ Rumeilat: “My relationship with a prisoner [Husam Omar] is like the relationship of any young woman with a young man who has a right to be happy and live. Husam Omar has sacrificed 21 years of his life. What prevents me from sacrificing and waiting 14 years?... My brother [Uday] told me a lot about him and said that Husam loves good deeds, loves to help others, and this attracted me to get to know Husam. The relationship between us was only based on what my brother told me; I didn’t know him personally. Until the day his sister came and asked if I was ready to get engaged. My initial answer was no, until she asked me: ‘Even if the groom is Husam Omar?’ I told her: ‘Husam is a man who cannot be refused, and I’m full of pride to get engaged to him.’”
[Official PA TV, Giants of Endurance, May 25, 2023]
Husam Omar – Palestinian terrorist arrested in 2002 and convicted as an accomplice to murder. PMW was unable to determine the details of the murder.
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Official PA TV host: “We send greetings to the prisoner sentenced to life, our brother Abdallah Agbaria (i.e., Israeli Arab terrorist, murdered 2). Now we’ll watch an interview with his fiancée.” …
Yasmin Al-Harathani, terrorist Abdallah Agbaria’s fiancée: “I’m Yasmin Al-Harathani, a resident of Gaza, fiancée of prisoner Abdallah Agbaria… I’ve been engaged for 5 years already. At the start of the engagement I hesitated whether to agree or not. They gave me the dowry and a gold necklace, and we wrote up the marriage contract… I spoke with him [Abdallah] through a letter... He congratulated me and I him… It’s the prisoner’s right to live naturally like any person. I say to you, Abdallah, I’ll wait for you my entire life… and the two of us will rejoice together, have a wedding, and raise a family.”
[Official PA TV, Giants of Endurance, June 22, 2023]
Abdallah Agbaria – 20-year-old Israeli Arab terrorist who stabbed and murdered 2 Israeli university students – Sharon Steinmetz, 21, and Yehiel Finfter, 25 – while they were hiking at Nahal Keini near Megiddo Junction on Aug. 29, 1999. Agbaria confessed to the murders and is serving 2 life sentences.
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The video shows Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul visiting the Jenin refugee camp right after Israel’s counter-terror operation Home and Garden.
Jenin Brigade speaker: “Allah willing, we hope that we’ll live up to your expectations of us. Our only goal is to fight the Jews. Our rifles have never become political for any other direction.” …
Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “My blessings to you all. Today it is our honor to come here… to Jenin.”
[Quds News Network, Facebook page, July 8, 2023; Fatah, Facebook page, July 8, 2023]
Posted text on Facebook page: “Words [on behalf of] the Jenin Brigade (i.e., terror group affiliated with Islamic Jihad) during the reception [it held] for the Fatah Movement Central Committee members and Fatah Revolutionary Council members, led by national commander [Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul] ‘Abu Jihad’ during his visit to the [Jenin refugee] camp.”
Mahmoud Al-Aloul also serves as Fatah Central Committee member.
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this video do not represent those of Palestinian Media Watch in any way. PMW monitors and analyzes the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. For more info visit: http://palwatch.org.
Al-Jazeera TV Live posted a video and text on its Twitter account
The video shows Head of Fatah Commission of Information and Culture’s Information Office Munir Al-Jaghoub giving an interview on Al-Jazeera TV Live.
Head of Fatah Commission of Information and Culture’s Information Office Munir Al-Jaghoub: “The Palestinian people doesn’t lack appropriate means to deal with this occupation. There is a principle in the long-term war of the people that says that it’s impossible to kill an elephant at once, but it’s possible to eliminate it by stabbing it repeatedly. That’s what the Palestinian people is doing: It’s stabbing this elephant now and again until it submits or leaves.”
[Al-Jazeera TV Live, Twitter account, June 21, 2023]
Posted text on Twitter account: “In response to the Eli settlement operation (i.e., terror attack, 4 murdered), senior Fatah Movement official Munir Al-Jaghoub: It’s impossible to kill an elephant at once, but it’s possible to eliminate it by stabbing it repeatedly
#Palestine #Al-Jazeera_Live”
Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Mustafa Sabah – Palestinian terrorists and members of the Hamas terror organization, aged 26 and 24 respectively, who shot and murdered 4 Israelis - Elisha Antman, 18, Nachman Shmuel Mordoff, 17, Harel Masoud, 21, and Ofer Feirman, 63 - and wounded an additional 4 outside the Jewish town of Eli north of Ramallah on June 20, 2023. Shehadeh was shot and killed in self-defense by an Israeli civilian at the scene. Sabah fled but was found by Israeli forces shortly after and killed while resisting arrest.
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Narrator and text on screen: “The heroes of the Nahariya operation
Self-sacrificing fighter Abd Al-Rahim Nasif
Self-sacrificing fighter Ahmad Abd Al-'Al
Self-sacrificing fighter Muhammad Hanafi
The squad infiltrated… the settlement of Nahariya
The operation took place on the night of June 25, 1974
The operation lasted 7 consecutive hours
The operation shocked the enemy’s leaders”
[Fatah Movement – Gaza Strip Branch, Facebook page, June 25, 2023]
Posted text on Facebook page: “A video on the occasion of 49 years since the heroic Nahariya operation (i.e., terror attack, 4 murdered), which was carried out by the heroes of the Fatah Movement
‘The revolutionaries do not leave a land, history immortalizes them’
Today, Sunday [June 25, 2023], is the 49th anniversary of the heroic Nahariya operation that was carried out by a select unit of Fatah heroes on June 24-25, 1974…
The self-sacrificing squad that included the three heroes Ahmad Abd Al-'Al, Abd Al-Rahim Nasif, and Muhammad Hanafi, infiltrated the settlement of Nahariya (i.e., a coastal town in northern Israel) on the night of June 25 with inflatable boats by sea from Lebanon. One of the settlers succeeded in exposing them and shot at them. The occupation forces called up the Golani unit and confrontations began between the occupation forces and the three heroes for seven hours, until their ammunition ran out and they died as Martyrs.
Dozens of the occupation’s soldiers were killed in the operation, but the true number of its killed soldiers was not revealed. (sic.)”
FACT: The terrorists murdered 30-year-old Irena Zarankin, her 10-year-old daughter Ronit, and her 5-year-old son Gilad, as well as 1 Israeli soldier
1974 Nahariya attack – Three Palestinian terrorists - Abd Al-Rahim Nasif, Ahmad Abd Al-'Al, and Muhammad Hanafi - who had reached Israel by boat from Lebanon broke into an apartment building in Nahariya, where they murdered 30-year-old Irena Zarankin, her 10-year-old daughter Ronit, and her 5-year-old son Gilad on June 25, 1974. Zarankin’s husband Mordechai had made a rope out of sheets for them to escape out the window and blockaded the door, but one of the terrorists was waiting below and shot Irena Zarankin and the children as they climbed down. Mordechai Zarankin survived the attack. Israeli soldiers who arrived at the scene killed all three terrorists, but in the exchange of fire 21-year-old Israeli soldier Danny Senesh was also murdered. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack, and continues to celebrate the attack.
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Jana Bilal Naghnaghiya: “Sadil was very beloved by the people, very very much, by the children and adults… Now, she is- congratulations on the Martyrdom, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. I want to tell you congratulations with my whole heart, 1,000 times congratulations… Today I was happy for her, I was very very happy. Congratulations on the Martyrdom.”
[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Telegram channel, June 21, 2023]
Posted text on Telegram channel: “Jana Bilal Naghnaghiya, 8, speaks about her good friend and cousin Sadil [Naghnaghiya]”
“Martyr” Sadil’s Facebook profile picture showed her holding an M16 assault rifle, and a post of hers read: "We do not love Martyrdom-death, rather Martyrdom-death loves us... #Jenin_mother_of_the_Martyrs."
Sadil Ghassan Naghnaghiya Turkeman - 15-year-old female Palestinian terrorist and member of the Islamic Jihad terror organization who was killed during an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin on June 19, 2023. Naghnaghiya was reportedly filming the exchanges of fire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists when she was shot; Israeli army officials were quoted as saying it was unlikely she was shot by Israeli forces. Naghnaghiya's Facebook profile picture showed her holding an M16 assault rifle, and a post of hers from April 22, 2022 read: "We do not love Martyrdom-death, rather Martyrdom-death loves us... #Jenin_mother_of_the_Martyrs"
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The video shows the funeral of terrorist Abd Al-Jawad Saleh, in which participants are heard chanting:
Crowd at the funeral of terrorist Abd Al-Jawad Saleh: “Make sounds of joy, mother of the Martyr. Your son is a Martyr in Paradise.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, July 8, 2023]
Posted text on Telegram channel: “The mother of Martyr Abd Al-Jawad Saleh (i.e., terrorist) accompanies her son in a wedding procession (i.e., a Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam) with sounds of joy.”
Abd Al-Jawad Saleh – 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist who was shot and killed while participating in violent confrontations against Israeli civilians and soldiers outside of Umm Safa near Ramallah on July 7, 2023.
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and closed in ghettos to protect the public
Lebanese film critic Georges Kaadi: “[Zionist leader Theodor Herzl] was an atheist like many of the founders of this [Zionist] entity… They did not believe in all the Jewish dogma of fairy tales. [They acted] only out of their tribalism that united them, this tribe, this Jewish group, that was always in exile, and at all times was what I call a parasite in peoples and in states. Therefore, they were persecuted, and therefore they lived in ghettos, closed off, so [as not] to harm the general public - and to protect themselves.”
[Official PA TV, An Intellectual and a Cause, June 26, 2023]
This interview was edited by official PA TV before broadcast. Official PA TV chose to include and broadcast these antisemitic messages without any kind of reservations or disclaimer.
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Fatah Revolutionary Council member Wafa Zakarneh: “The occupation (i.e., Israel) is continuing its invasion of the [Jenin] refugee camp and the Nazi bombings against our defenseless Palestinian people... Every day the occupation is insisting on teaching Hitler what Nazism is.”
[Official PA TV, July 3, 2023]
Zakarneh made this statement during Israel’s counter-terror operation Home and Garden:
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested.
During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this video do not represent those of Palestinian Media Watch in any way. PMW monitors and analyzes the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. For more info visit: http://palwatch.org.
Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “The sacrifices of our sons are a completely natural affair… Did we not teach them about loving the land, about sacrificing for it, about loving the holy sites, about how they are Palestinians, about how they need to resist the enemy? This is without a doubt the education of these heroes, these young guys.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, July 9, 2023]
Posted text on Facebook page: “A delegation of the Fatah Central Committee and Fatah Revolutionary Council carries out the duty of consoling the mourners for Martyr Samih Abu Al-Wafa (i.e., terrorist, shot at Israeli soldiers) in Jenin.”
Mahmoud Al-Aloul also serves as Fatah Central Committee member.
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Sister of dead teen terrorist Nur Al-Din Marshoud, Selah Marshoud: “I’m the only sister. He asked me for a present for his birthday: That I would give him a [phone] cover and a necklace with the Martyr Ashraf (i.e., terrorist), his friend. He went to Ashraf, his friend. Praise Allah, he wished to go to Ashraf, and he went to him.”
[Palpost Telegram Channel, July 4, 2023]
Majdi Ar’arawi, Ali Al-Ghoul and Nur Al-Din Marshoud – Palestinian teen terrorists aged 16, 17, and 17 respectively who were killed during Israel’s Operation Home and Garden, a counter-terror operation in Jenin that started on July 3, 2023. Majdi Ar’arawi belonged to the Islamic Jihad terror organization, Ali Al-Ghoul, belonged to Hamas, while Nur Marshoud, belonged to Fatah’s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that started on July 3, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023.
On the first day of the operation, Israeli forces killed 10 terrorists in Jenin and attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were also discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.
The “Martyr friend Ashraf” mentioned by the sister most probably refers to terrorist Ashraf Al-Sa’adi who were involved in several shooting attacks and who was killed two weeks before Marshoud:
Muhammad Aweis, Suhaib Al-Ghoul, and Ashraf Al-Sa'adi – Palestinian terrorists aged 28, 27, and 17 respectively who shot at Jalame checkpoint near Jenin on June 21, 2023. While the three terrorists attempted to escape the area by car, an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the vehicle, killing all three terrorists. Aweis was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing), Al-Ghoul was a commander of the Jenin Brigade (part of Islamic Jihad's military wing), and Al-Sa'adi was a member of the Jenin Brigade. The terrorists previously committed shooting attacks targeting the Israeli towns of Gan Ner on May 28, 2023, and Meirav on April 17, 2023, both near Jenin.
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Israeli Arab journalist Suheil Diab: “The official Israeli policy [is] to escalate every conflict and every tension in the Palestinian public in the Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel), and I want to say, not just in the Interior. There are those who speak about exporting this practice of strengthening the crime gangs to the occupied areas in the West Bank. They want to escalate every internal conflict, whether it is familial, tribal, or ethnic.”
Official PA TV host: “The idea has been understood, and we must make all efforts as you noted to stand against the organized crime, whose goal is to dismantle the Arab public in the Interior.”
[Official PA TV News, June 25, 2023]
Israeli Arab journalist Suheil Diab made this statement after months of internal strife and killings among Israeli Arabs.
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Official PA TV program We Were There, on terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the murder of 37, 12 of them children
Brother of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi: “[Dalal] joined Fatah when she was in the student organization… A number of days before she set out… she wrote a very beautiful expression: … ‘One who is sure-footed walks like an angel.’””
[Official PA TV, We Were There, May 23, 2023]
Dalal Mughrabi – female Palestinian terrorist who led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
The expression written by terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is a line from Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum’s famous song “The Ruins.”
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