Fatah honors several murderers in Bethlehem: "Loyalty to their rifle"; Murderer of 2 "created a legend and confronted the enemy"
Posted text: “The speech of [Fatah] Branch Secretary [in Bethlehem] brother Muhammad Al-Masri at a memorial to Martyrs Awad Awad and Mahmoud Awad (i.e., Fatah terrorists who died in an exchange of gunfire with Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem in 2002)”
Visual: Fatah Branch Secretary in Bethlehem Muhammad Al-Masri is giving a speech on stage. In the audience are armed masked men from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing; at certain points in the speech they fire into the air. In front of the podium is a large sign with the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas. On the stage backdrop is a large sign with the pictures of several terrorists.
Text on sign: “Long live the anniversary for the memory of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (i.e., Fatah’s military wing) commanders
Martyr commander Mahmoud Awad
Martyr commander Awad Awad
Prisoner commander Jawad Jawarish (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 1)
The families of the Martyrs and prisoners are a red line.”
Secretary of Fatah Bethlehem branch Muhammad Al-Masri: “From this land that has been painted red with blood, from this land which knows that what was taken by force will only be returned by force… What you see today – loyalty to the Martyrs, loyalty to their rifle, loyalty to their path – is nothing but a continuation of Fatah’s path. This path that caresses with the tips of its fingers the rebel’s rifle, the diplomat’s pen… When there are those who think that we are burying it [Fatah], it bursts forth from the ashes like the phoenix. And here a lion cub (i.e., terrorist, murdered 2), who did not reach the age of 20, burst forth and created a legend and confronted the enemy… heroic Martyr fighter Omar Abu Laila. In this way he conveyed the message… of all of Fatah’s armed branches… Our military uniforms are different, but our weapon is one… Our blood is sacrificed for one homeland: Palestine, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River (i.e., all of Israel)... Today, we are renaming squares after our Martyrs: From Omar Abu Laila Square… to Hussein Abayat Square [commander Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades], to Atef Abayat Square (i.e., involved in murder of 1), to Raed Abu Freiha Square (i.e., murdered 2), our bullets are thundering and repeating the names like memory… This is Fatah as you know it – Fatah of… Atef Abayat, Hussein Abayat, Raed Abayat, [Dalal] Mughrabi (i.e., led murder of 37)… and Ayyat Al-Akhras (i.e., suicide bomber, murdered 2).”
Hussein Abayat
Atef Abayat
Raed Abu Freiha - Raed Abayat
Dalal Mughrabi
Ayyat Al-Akhras