Abbas' Fatah to Hezbollah: "We are in the same trench, and are resisting the same enemy"
On Jan. 18, 2015, Hezbollah commander Jihad Mughniyeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Fatah extended its condolences to Hezbollah in the following article:
Headline: "Palestine offers its condolences to Hezbollah"
"Following the assassination of a group of Hezbollah activists in Quneitra by Israeli occupation forces, the ambassador of the State of Palestine in Lebanon, Ashraf Dabbour, expressed his condolences on Tuesday at the Al-Imam Al-Mujtaba compound. He was accompanied by the commander of the [PA] National Security [Forces] in Lebanon, Major-General Subhi Abu Arab and his deputy Major-General Munir Al-Maqdah.
In addition, a high-ranking delegation sent by the Fatah leadership headed by the director of [Fatah's Lebanon] branch, Rifat Shanaah, [which included] the branch members and Fatah Secretary-General in Beirut Samir Abu Afash... expressed their condolences at the Al-Imam Al-Mujtaba compound.
The Fatah delegation laid three wreaths on the grave of Martyr (Shahid) Jihad Mughniyeh (son of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh) [parenthesis in source] on behalf of the embassy of the State of Palestine, the PLO and Fatah... As they were laying the wreaths, Rifat Shanaah said: 'In the name of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement - Fatah; in the name of the PLO and the resisting Palestinian people, we hereby express our heartfelt condolences to [our] brothers in the Hezbollah leadership and to the families of the Martyrs. We are in the same trench, and are resisting the same enemy.'
He said: 'We emphasize that cowardly acts such as these and those [committed] against our young men and our people in Palestine, Lebanon or anywhere else merely strengthen our adherence and determination to resist this enemy, who robs our people. We will adhere even more to our goals and Palestinian national principles and to the unity of our position and that of struggle and Jihad between us and our brothers in Hezbollah and all the forces acting to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem. We say to the families of the Martyrs (Shahids) that their sons, their Martyrs, are the Martyrs of the Palestinian people.'
Hezbollah's deputy commissioner on the Palestinian issue, Sheikh Atallah Hammud, said: 'In the Martyrs' garden, by the tomb of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh, his son Martyr Jihad Mughniyeh and all the [other] Martyrs, we give thanks to our brothers in the PLO and Fatah for their participation. We emphasize that the Martyrs who fell at Quneitra fell on the path to Palestine, and for Palestine. We emphasize... that we will continue to stride down the path and that our goal is Palestine and will remain Palestine. Blessings to all the Martyrs who protected the honor of this nation.'"
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Notes: Imad Mughniyeh - senior member of Hezbollah who was linked to major international terror attacks, including but not limited to: the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut (63 killed), the 1983 bombing of the US army barracks in Beirut (241 killed), the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 (1 killed), the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires (29 killed), and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudia Arabia (19 Americans killed). He was also linked to the Karine-A affair, a failed attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority in 2002, and to numerous attacks along the Israel-Lebanon border. He was killed in a car bombing in 2008.
Jihad Mughniyeh - Commander of Hezbollah in the Syrian Golan Heights and son of Imad Mughniyeh. Information about Mughniyeh is scarce, but according to Western intelligence sources quoted in the international media, he was planning and preparing terror attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights, including rocket fire and explosive devices meant to target Israeli soldiers and civilians. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jan. 18, 2015.
Headline: "Palestine offers its condolences to Hezbollah"
"Following the assassination of a group of Hezbollah activists in Quneitra by Israeli occupation forces, the ambassador of the State of Palestine in Lebanon, Ashraf Dabbour, expressed his condolences on Tuesday at the Al-Imam Al-Mujtaba compound. He was accompanied by the commander of the [PA] National Security [Forces] in Lebanon, Major-General Subhi Abu Arab and his deputy Major-General Munir Al-Maqdah.
In addition, a high-ranking delegation sent by the Fatah leadership headed by the director of [Fatah's Lebanon] branch, Rifat Shanaah, [which included] the branch members and Fatah Secretary-General in Beirut Samir Abu Afash... expressed their condolences at the Al-Imam Al-Mujtaba compound.
The Fatah delegation laid three wreaths on the grave of Martyr (Shahid) Jihad Mughniyeh (son of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh) [parenthesis in source] on behalf of the embassy of the State of Palestine, the PLO and Fatah... As they were laying the wreaths, Rifat Shanaah said: 'In the name of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement - Fatah; in the name of the PLO and the resisting Palestinian people, we hereby express our heartfelt condolences to [our] brothers in the Hezbollah leadership and to the families of the Martyrs. We are in the same trench, and are resisting the same enemy.'
He said: 'We emphasize that cowardly acts such as these and those [committed] against our young men and our people in Palestine, Lebanon or anywhere else merely strengthen our adherence and determination to resist this enemy, who robs our people. We will adhere even more to our goals and Palestinian national principles and to the unity of our position and that of struggle and Jihad between us and our brothers in Hezbollah and all the forces acting to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem. We say to the families of the Martyrs (Shahids) that their sons, their Martyrs, are the Martyrs of the Palestinian people.'
Hezbollah's deputy commissioner on the Palestinian issue, Sheikh Atallah Hammud, said: 'In the Martyrs' garden, by the tomb of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh, his son Martyr Jihad Mughniyeh and all the [other] Martyrs, we give thanks to our brothers in the PLO and Fatah for their participation. We emphasize that the Martyrs who fell at Quneitra fell on the path to Palestine, and for Palestine. We emphasize... that we will continue to stride down the path and that our goal is Palestine and will remain Palestine. Blessings to all the Martyrs who protected the honor of this nation.'"
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Notes: Imad Mughniyeh - senior member of Hezbollah who was linked to major international terror attacks, including but not limited to: the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut (63 killed), the 1983 bombing of the US army barracks in Beirut (241 killed), the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 (1 killed), the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires (29 killed), and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudia Arabia (19 Americans killed). He was also linked to the Karine-A affair, a failed attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority in 2002, and to numerous attacks along the Israel-Lebanon border. He was killed in a car bombing in 2008.
Jihad Mughniyeh - Commander of Hezbollah in the Syrian Golan Heights and son of Imad Mughniyeh. Information about Mughniyeh is scarce, but according to Western intelligence sources quoted in the international media, he was planning and preparing terror attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights, including rocket fire and explosive devices meant to target Israeli soldiers and civilians. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jan. 18, 2015.
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