Fatah branch glorifies terrorist sniper who killed 10 as “the sniper of Palestine, [the] self-sacrificing fighter”

Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch

Posted text:
“The sniper of Palestine, self-sacrificing fighter (Fida’i) Thaer Hammad
Fatah was here”

The image shows a doctored picture of terrorist Thaer Hammad who murdered 10, in which a picture of his head has been put on the body of a character from the video game Sniper Elite. He is seen in a military uniform holding a sniper rifle over his shoulder, with sandbags of a bunker behind him, and further in the distance is the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock with Jerusalem in the background.

Text on the rifle: “Jerusalem belongs to us”

Text on image:
“Prisoner Thaer Hammad
Wadi Al-Haramiyia sniper”

Thaer Hammad – Palestinian terrorist serving 11 life sentences for murdering 3 Israeli civilians and 7 soldiers by shooting them with a sniper rifle from a hilltop in Wadi Al-Haramiya between Ramallah and Nablus on March 3, 2002.