Fatah, the leading faction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s party, has long been touted in the international arena as a “moderate” potential peace partner for Israel.
But in a video featuring songs and posted to Fatah’s official Facebook page for it’s 50th anniversary last December, which was translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the group made clear that their peace partner impression is far from the truth, as the faction celebrated bloody terror attacks it has conducted since its inception.
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In the video, five suicide bombings and a shooting attack against Israeli civilians were celebrated. A total of 55 people were murdered by Fatah terrorists in the course of the attacks lauded in the video.
While honoring the suicide bombers the clip shows images from the attacks combined with footage of Fatah terrorists launching rockets, as they did against Israeli citizens from Gaza in Hamas’s terror war last summer.
Among the terrorists lionized in the video were suicide bomber Wafa Idris, the first female suicide bomber who murdered one Israeli; Muhammad Al-Qasir who murdered three; and Ayyat Al-Akhras, who was the youngest female suicide bomber at age 17. She murdered two and was called “a woman worth a thousand men” in the video.
The attacks shown and praised in the video include the Café Moment suicide bombing in which 11 were murdered, the Beit Yisrael Yeshiva suicide bombing in which 11 were also murdered, and the Park Hotel suicide bombing that saw 30 murdered.
That message of terrorism seen in the video was reflected again by Fatah just this Saturday, when it posted a photo of Fatah terrorists in uniforms and armed with automatic weapons with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flag as a background.
The photo featured the text: “my enemy, I swear you will not escape the people and the revolution.”