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PA District Governor glorifies terrorist Abu Jihad’s "acts of heroism and his self-sacrificing operations;" Fatah official: Abu Jihad was "an example of heroism and loyalty"

Headline: “A conference in Tulkarem to commemorate the life path of Prince of Martyrs Abu Jihad,” Fatah official
     “The [PLO] Political and National Guidance Authority and the [PA] Ministry of Information in the Tubas and North Jordan Valley district marked the 30th anniversary of the death as a Martyr (Shahid) of deputy general commander of the revolution forces and engineer of the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, 1987-1993 in which approximately 200 Israelis were murdered) Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), and also Prisoner’s Day…
District Governor [Ahmed] As’ad said that as is its custom, Tubas is marking Palestinian Prisoner’s Day and the anniversary of deputy general commander of the Palestinian revolution forces Khalil Al-Wazir, at a time when our people is remembering the unique commander’s acts of heroism and his self-sacrificing operations (i.e., terror attacks) that shattered the occupation’s mentality, as he was the First Bullet and the First Stone…
Fatah Movement Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations] Abbas Zaki reviewed the life path of Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir, who constituted a school for struggle who succeeded in realizing national unity, created an extraordinary incident that did not happen again in Palestine, and provided an example of heroism and loyalty. He also said that Al-Wazir entered the hearts and minds of the members of our people and the Arab brothers, who fought among themselves to receive his body after the crime of his assassination.”
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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, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

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