Murder of 11 at Savoy hotel was “greatest and most wonderful quality operation,” murderers “heroic,” says Fatah in video and Facebook post

Video and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement - Nablus District Branch.

The video shows pictures of each of the terrorists who committed the Savoy terror attack posing with weapons, as well as the planner of the attack Abu Jihad.

Text on screen: “Heroes of the Savoy self-sacrificing operation March 5, 1975
Heroic Martyr Abdallah Khalil Abdallah Kleib
Heroic Martyr Ahmed Hamid Ahmed Abu Qamar
Heroic Martyr Khader Ahmed Jarram
Heroic Martyr Muhammad Diya Al-Din Al-Hilwani
Heroic Martyr Musa Al-Abd Abu Thuraya
Heroic fighter Musa Jum’a Hassan
Heroic Martyr Naif Najd Ismail Al-Saghir
Heroic Martyr Omar Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Shafai
The one supervising the operation, Martyr leader Khalil Al-Wazir
May Allah’s mercy be upon our pure Martyrs
Long live the memory – the revolution will continue!
Group picture of those who carried out the self-sacrificing Savoy operation”

Posted text:
“The Savoy self-sacrificing operation (i.e., 11 murdered) is considered the greatest and most wonderful of the quality operations (i.e., terror attacks) of the Al-Asifa forces, the Fatah Movement’s military wing, in which dozens of [Israeli] officers were killed – there is no precise number of those killed, but the number is between 50 to 100 soldiers and officers from the Israeli side, and over 150 soldiers and officers were wounded (sic., 8 civilian hostages and 3 soldiers were murdered, and roughly a dozen were wounded, most of them civilians).
Among those killed was [Israeli] Army Brig. Gen. Uzi Yairi, one of the senior intelligence officers (i.e., commander of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit), who led the Verdun Operation (i.e., Israel's Operation Spring of Youth; see note below) in which three commanders were killed. The [Savoy] operation was revenge for the murder of commanders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar. It should be noted that commander Martyr (Shahid) Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ personally supervised this operation.”
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Savoy terror attack: In March 1975, eight terrorists traveled by boat from Lebanon to a Tel Aviv beach. They took over the Savoy Hotel and took guests as hostages. The next morning, Israeli forces attacked and killed seven of the terrorists. Eight hostages and three soldiers were murdered by the terrorists during the attack.

The Verdun Operation is the Arabic name for an Israeli military operation against PLO targets in the Lebanese cities of Beirut and Sidon on April 10, 1973 (Operation Spring of Youth in Israel.) During the operation, Israeli army forces killed three senior PLO leaders: Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar.

Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser were both senior members of Black September, a secret branch of Fatah, who were killed by Israeli forces in April 1973. Kamal Nasser was also the spokesperson for the PLO and Fatah. Kamal Adwan was responsible for Fatah terrorist operations in Israel.

Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar was Arafat's deputy and among the founders of Fatah. He was the Commander of Al-Asifa, Fatah’s military unit, and member of Fatah’s Central Committee and PLO’s Executive Committee. He also was the Commander of Operations of the terrorist organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah, and involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972). He was killed by Israel in 1973.

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 also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, which murdered a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.