Fatah official celebrates arch-terrorist Abu Jihad for his "armed struggle," at ceremony in his honor
Official PA TV broadcast the central rally to mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and the anniversary of the death of Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir).
Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad: "We are marking the 22nd anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of the first bullet and first stone, our eternal Martyr, leader Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir), who played a central and leading role in spreading the culture of the armed struggle and of the long-term war of the people. Already before the foundation of Fatah, when he was still a student at the University of Cairo, the idea of the armed struggle and the renewal of the Palestinian struggle for the restitution of our nation’s rights took root in his mind. This great commander, who, together with his first friends, foremost among whom was our eternal Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, ignited and contributed to the start of the armed popular revolution in the most important region in the world – the Middle East... He was the first stone, engineering the first Intifada (i.e., the first Palestinian wave of violence against Israel, 1988-1993) in 1987...
He [Khalil Al-Wazir] combined the bullet and the stone, popular resistance and armed struggle [and] special operations (i.e., terror attacks) – the first of which was the operation of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi, who commanded the first Martyrdom-seeking (Istish'had) operation in the history of the making of our modern Palestinian revolution...
There were operations of capturing Israeli soldiers, the first of which was probably carried out by my brother [Fatah Central Committee member] Mahmoud Al-Aloul, who is here with us today (i.e., in the audience). He took part in the first operation of capturing Israeli soldiers in order to exchange them for our heroic prisoners. Today, we mark [Palestinian] Prisoners’ Day and the 22nd anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of our leader Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir), and we are determined to continue on this path, determined to continue so that the flame of the armed struggle, the flame of Fatah and the flame of the resistance will continue to burn, and not be extinguished until we accomplish the goals we have set out [to achieve]...
I will also take this opportunity to give you greetings from our leader and President, brother Mahmoud Abbas, who has sworn to continue on the same path, the path of Martyrdom (Shahada) and struggle, the path of the struggle using all possible means. In his most recent statements, he has reiterated that when we chose political struggle as one of the paths of struggle for our nation’s goals, this does not imply subjugation and compliance with Israel’s conditions, but rather [that] from the very beginning, we have strived and carried the rifle to achieve peace, not to fight merely for the sake of fighting and to shoot indiscriminately. [Our] goal is to achieve a just, comprehensive and viable peace, which can be attained only through a full restoration of the rights of our Palestinian people.”
Notes: 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 planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks killing 125 Israelis. This included the most lethal in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, killing 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70. Palestinians often refer to the attack as the “Kamal Adwan operation.”
Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad: "We are marking the 22nd anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of the first bullet and first stone, our eternal Martyr, leader Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir), who played a central and leading role in spreading the culture of the armed struggle and of the long-term war of the people. Already before the foundation of Fatah, when he was still a student at the University of Cairo, the idea of the armed struggle and the renewal of the Palestinian struggle for the restitution of our nation’s rights took root in his mind. This great commander, who, together with his first friends, foremost among whom was our eternal Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat, ignited and contributed to the start of the armed popular revolution in the most important region in the world – the Middle East... He was the first stone, engineering the first Intifada (i.e., the first Palestinian wave of violence against Israel, 1988-1993) in 1987...
He [Khalil Al-Wazir] combined the bullet and the stone, popular resistance and armed struggle [and] special operations (i.e., terror attacks) – the first of which was the operation of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi, who commanded the first Martyrdom-seeking (Istish'had) operation in the history of the making of our modern Palestinian revolution...
There were operations of capturing Israeli soldiers, the first of which was probably carried out by my brother [Fatah Central Committee member] Mahmoud Al-Aloul, who is here with us today (i.e., in the audience). He took part in the first operation of capturing Israeli soldiers in order to exchange them for our heroic prisoners. Today, we mark [Palestinian] Prisoners’ Day and the 22nd anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of our leader Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir), and we are determined to continue on this path, determined to continue so that the flame of the armed struggle, the flame of Fatah and the flame of the resistance will continue to burn, and not be extinguished until we accomplish the goals we have set out [to achieve]...
I will also take this opportunity to give you greetings from our leader and President, brother Mahmoud Abbas, who has sworn to continue on the same path, the path of Martyrdom (Shahada) and struggle, the path of the struggle using all possible means. In his most recent statements, he has reiterated that when we chose political struggle as one of the paths of struggle for our nation’s goals, this does not imply subjugation and compliance with Israel’s conditions, but rather [that] from the very beginning, we have strived and carried the rifle to achieve peace, not to fight merely for the sake of fighting and to shoot indiscriminately. [Our] goal is to achieve a just, comprehensive and viable peace, which can be attained only through a full restoration of the rights of our Palestinian people.”
Notes: 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 planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks killing 125 Israelis. This included the most lethal in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, killing 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70. Palestinians often refer to the attack as the “Kamal Adwan operation.”