Fatah admits it supported Hamas "with money, weapons, and political cover" during the intifada terror campaign
- Fatah boasts of its terror against “the Zionist enemy”
In a documentary posted on Fatah’s official Facebook page, Fatah admits it “supported” Hamas “with money, weapons, and political cover” during the time of Yasser Arafat.
In the video, which boasts of Fatah’s terror accomplishments, photos of Arafat with Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin are shown while the narrator explains:
Narrator: “Fatah has led and will continue to lead the national project…Instead of crushing its opponents, Fatah supported them with money, weapons, and political cover.”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Nov. 5, 2019]
Earlier in the video, Fatah brags of its terror against “the Zionist enemy,” that it has “sacrificed 190,000 Martyrs,” and that “92% of prisoners – i.e., terrorists and murderers – are “Fatah members, officers, and fighters.” As major accomplishments, the video highlights the Palestinian terror waves – the first intifada in which 200 Israelis were murdered – and the PA’s 5-year terror campaign, the second intifada, in which more than 1,100 Israelis were murdered, mostly in suicide bombings:
Narrator: “The Fatah Movement has sacrificed 190,000 Martyrs… Fatah was pioneering in its operations (i.e., terror attacks) during the first Intifada, and it was the first Palestinian faction to reach the nuclear reactor in Dimona (i.e., terror attack, 3 murdered).”
Photo of PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat with arch-terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad”
Photo of Terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the murder of 37, 12 of them children
Narrator: “Fatah has sacrificed most of its leaders as Martyrs… Fatah was the first to fight in the second Intifada.”
Photo of Arafat with Marwan Barghouti, terrorist, orchestrated murder of 5
Narrator: “Most of the prisoners, 92% of them, are Fatah members, officers, and fighters, and foremost among them heroic prisoner Marwan Barghouti. Fatah was the first to defeat the Zionist enemy in the Karameh battle. Fatah has led and will continue to lead the national project."
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Nov. 5, 2019]
While Fatah and Hamas politically are fierce enemies competing for political control, in this documentary Fatah wanted to prove that in terror they are partners, and supporters of Hamas.
Palestinian Media Watch has reported that Mahmoud Abbas in the past has stressed that Fatah and Hamas agree on all crucial issues:
Abbas: "There is no disagreement between us [Fatah and Hamas]: About belief? None! About policy? None! About resistance? None!"
[Official PA TV Dec. 31, 2009]
Abbas’ Fatah has also stressed this, referring to the terror organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad as its “brothers-in-arms” – united by “One God, one homeland, one enemy, one goal." Last year, senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki came to the defense of Hamas when a UN resolution proposed to condemn Hamas for firing rockets into Israel. Zaki stated that if Hamas is a terror organization, then everyone else is a terrorist too:
Zaki: "If Hamas, which is involved in resistance, is considered a terrorist movement, this means that all groups of the Palestinian people are involved in terrorism. This contradicts reality, as Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian factions are national liberation movements that are involved in resisting an Israeli occupation that is implementing terrorism against the members of our people... Hamas is part of us and we are part of it if a resolution is passed against it that defines its resistance as a crime. This is because Hamas - regardless of the internal and political differences of opinion - constitutes a state of resistance, whether we want it or not. It has a broad Palestinian presence, and we cannot abandon it to fight alone on the battlefield."
[Palestine Today, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 2, 2018]
The following are details of the terror attacks and terrorists mentioned in Fatah’s documentary:
Text posted with the video on Facebook: “Video – why I am a Fatah [member]
Prepared and narrated by Dr. Hashem Sidqi Abu Younes”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Nov. 5, 2019]
The second Intifada (the Al-Aqsa Intifada) - PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more than 1,100 Israelis murdered.