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PA news agency refers to terrorists as Martyrs; Father expresses pride in son's martyrdom

Headline: “Martyrs [Hassan] Manasrah and [Alaa] Abu Jamal were brought to burial in Jerusalem towards morning”
     “Dozens of [Palestinian] citizens accompanied Martyr (Shahid) Hassan Manasrah, a 15-year-old boy, and Martyr Alaa Abu Jamal, 32, on their last journey Tuesday [May, 24, 2016] before morning… It should be noted that the boy, Manasrah, was executed in the settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev (i.e., a neighborhood in Jerusalem), under the pretext that he tried to carry out a stabbing [attack] in October of last year [2015]…
The father of Martyr Alaa Abu Jamal expressed satisfaction over the burial of his son in the ground of Jerusalem, after he was held [by Israel] for more than seven months.
He said: ‘Alaa’s face looked as if he died as a Martyr just now. When we separated from him it looked like he was smiling.’ Likewise, he noted that his son died as a Martyr when he was shot by the occupation, after he carried out a shooting and stabbing operation (sic., he carried out a car ramming and stabbing attack) in western Jerusalem in October of last year [2015].’”

Pisgat Ze'ev stabbing attack - On Oct. 12, 2015, two Palestinian terrorists, Hassan ‎Manasrah (15) and Ahmad Manasrah (13), stabbed Yossef Ben Shalom (21) in the Pisgat ‎Ze'ev neighborhood of East Jerusalem, and then repeatedly stabbed Naor Ben Ezra (13) who was riding his bike. Hassan Manasrah was killed while fleeing the scene, and Ahmad Manasrah was shot by Israeli police and hospitalized. Both victims of the attack were seriously injured. The terrorists, who were cousins, came from the nearby Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina.

Alaa Abu Jamal - Palestinian terrorist who deliberately drove his car into people standing at a bus stop on Malchei Yisrael Street in Jerusalem on Oct. 13, 2015, hitting three people. Yeshayahu Krishevsky, 60, was killed and the other two were injured. Abu Jamal then got out of his car and started stabbing people, wounding others. The terrorist was killed by a security guard. He was a relative of the terrorists who murdered 5 worshippers and a policeman in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem in November 2014.

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