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Sports festival named after terrorist Abu Jihad, the "Prince of Martyrs"

Headline: “On the anniversary of Abu Jihad’s death as Martyr (Shahid) – the Palestinian Association for Martial Arts holds its first Prince of Martyrs festival.”
“President of the Palestinian Academy for Martial Arts, Jihad Uweida, announced that the association’s events and activities will begin this April 16, parallel to the anniversary of the death of commander Martyr, Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’.
The constituent council of the Academy [for Martial Arts] is working diligently to mark this anniversary by holding its first sports festival in Jerusalem in cooperation with the Jerusalem sports and youth clubs and institutions. The festival includes all sports related to martial arts and self-defense in addition to football, basketball and a bicycle race.”

Note: 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 planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks, including the most lethal in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

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