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PA Security Forces host chess tournament named after terrorist responsible for murder of 125

Headline: “Hebron Youth player Baha Maswadi won the Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir Chess Tournament”

“Hebron Youth Club player Baha Maswadi won the Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir Individual Chess Tournament, which the Al-Yamun Youth Club in Jenin held at [the PA Security Forces camp] Horsh Al-Saada, hosted by the [PA] National Security leadership and supervised by the Palestinian Chess Federation.”

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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