It’s summer again – when Palestinian summer camps are named after murderers

It’s summer again - when Palestinian summer camps are named after murderers.

 

Another camp organized by Fatah and the PLO - both of which are headed by PA Chairman Abbas - was named after terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most lethal attack in Israel's history when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and murdered 37 Israeli civilians, 12 of them children:

 

 

It’s summer again - when young Palestinians are taught in summer camps that terrorists and killers are their role models.

It’s summer again - when Fatah and PLO officials endorse such camps glorifying killers of Israelis.

 

The Sisters of Dalal Summer Camp was organized by the Tulkarem branch of the Fatah Movement’s Shabiba Youth Movement high school committees, with the support of the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs. Moreover, the participants in the camp met with PA officials at the PA National Security Forces regional command’s headquarters.

 

Several officials spoke at the meeting, including the district governor who delivered “greetings” from PA Chairman Abbas and his “blessings” for the organization of “activities... that strengthen the spirit of national belonging among our sons and daughters.” In his speech the governor specifically mentioned terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi and praised her “position in the struggle and the revolution”:

Likewise, Fatah Secretary in Tulkarem Hamdan S’eifan, who was also at the meeting with the girls from the camp, “emphasized the importance of the summer camps’ message and their goals, through a strengthening of the national value system among the male and female campers.”

 

In his speech, Tulkarem District Governor Issam Abu Bakr also singled out Jibril Rajoub, who is the head of the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs. The governor praised Rajoub for his “efforts... to organize the summer camps.” PMW has reported extensively on Rajoub, and documented his praise for terrorists, including his sponsorship of a tennis tournament named after murderer Muhannad Halabi who murdered 2, and a  fencing tournament and a car race named after arch-terrorist Abu Jihad.

 

It’s summer again - when Palestinian Media Watch exposes these summer camps designed to brainwash Palestinian youth into thinking that using violence and terror to reach political goals is honorable. Last week, PMW documented three other such camps. At one of them, kids were taught to venerate arch-terrorists like Abu Jihad who orchestrated attacks in which 125 were killed and Ahmed Yassin, founder of the terrorist organization Hamas responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israelis. A different camp taking place in Tubas was also named after terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi, while a third was named after Omar Abu Laila, a Palestinian who murdered 2 Israelis earlier this year.

 

 

Headline: “The Tulkarem [district] governor visits the female students participating in the Sisters of Dalal Summer Camp”

“Tulkarem [District] Governor Issam Abu Bakr visited the female students participating in the Sisters of Dalal Children’s Summer Camp (named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi who led murder of 37, 12 of them children -Ed), which was organized by the Tulkarem branch of the Fatah Movement’s Shabiba [Youth Movement] high school committees, with the support of the [PLO] Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs. This was done at the [PA National Security Forces] regional command’s headquarters and with the participation of regional commander Colonel Jamal Abu Al-Izz, Fatah Secretary in Tulkarem Hamdan S’eifan, those in charge of the summer camp from the high school youth committees, and [camp] supervisors.

Governor Abu Bakr conveyed [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas’ greetings to the female students participating in the summer camp, and his blessings for the organization of activities such as these that strengthen the spirit of national belonging among our sons and daughters, and particularly since this generation will bear the flag of construction and liberation. He pointed out Martyr Dalal Mughrabi’s position in the struggle and the revolution, which has been planted in the memory of every Palestinian, while recalling her death as a Martyr in 1978... Governor Abu Bakr praised the efforts of the Fatah branch in Tulkarem, the Shabiba committees, and the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs represented by [its Head] Maj. Gen. Jibril Rajoub for the efforts that [Rajoub] is making to organize the summer camps, and praised the sponsorship that the [PA] National Security [Forces] represented by Maj. Gen. Nidal Abu Dukhan and the Tulkarem regional command are providing to this camp, all of the supervisors, and the staff.

[Fatah Secretary in Tulkarem] S’eifan emphasized the importance of the summer camps’ message and their goals, through a strengthening of the national value system among the male and female campers, and praised the support of Governor Abu Bakr, what the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs is doing, and [how] the regional command and National Security [Forces] are looking after the Sisters of Dalal Camp, the supervisors, and those running [it].”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 11, 2019]