Fatah greets 2020 with terror glorification fest
- Fatah-produced video focuses on Palestinians marching with knives, rifles, and mock explosive belts at anniversary rally in Ramallah
Even before Fatah’s violent threats in response to the US peace plan, Fatah showed its true colors, promising that it will continue on the path of violence in 2020.
Looking at Fatah’s recent anniversary rallies, it is clear that Abbas’movement wants to remind its people and the world that it adheres to the use of violence and terror. In a Fatah-produced video from its anniversary rally in Ramallah, Fatah chose to include almost entirely footage showing masked Fatah members carrying knives and Qurans, assault rifles, and mock explosive belts – complete with detonators in hand. The video, which opens and closes with the logo of Fatah’s youth movement Shabiba and was posted by Fatah on its official Facebook page - also included Fatah members shooting in the air.
Posted text: "The Fatah Shabiba [Youth Movement] at the Ramallah and El-Bireh branch on the 55th anniversary of [Fatah’s] Launch”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Jan. 15, 2020]
The mock suicide belts and detonators held by the marching Fatah members can be seen clearly in the following raw footage from the same Fatah rally in Ramallah:
Fatah members: “Shabiba” (i.e., Fatah’s Shabiba Youth Movement)
Tweeted text: “This is how masked men from the Fatah Movement celebrated the anniversary of the beginning of [Fatah’s] activity in Ramallah
#Palestine #The_West_Bank”
[Twitter account of Quds News Network, Dec. 31, 2019]
Another video shows Fatah members shooting in the air, and participants holding posters of terrorists Fuad Al-Shubaki – who attempted to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons into the PA - and Marwan Barghouti – who orchestrated terror attacks in which 5 Israelis were murdered. Two PA and Fatah officials - Fatah Movement Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen and General Supervisor of the Official PA Media Ahmad Assaf – also participated in this rally:
Text on screen throughout video:
“The 55th anniversary; Fatah marks the 55th anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian revolution”
[YouTube channel Elia Post, Dec. 31, 2019]
Palestinian Media Watch exposed that Abbas’ movement strode into 2020 flaunting terror at similar rallies in different cities marking Fatah’s anniversary at the end of 2019:
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Jan. 1, 2020]
The following are the lyrics of the song in Fatah’s edited video of the terror promotion rally:
Text on logo of Fatah’s youth movement Shabiba: "Volunteering, giving, sacrifice, devotion."
Song played with Fatah’s edited video of terror promotion rally:
"On the first of January, the rebels set forth
The entire world heard the sound of the explosion
Visual: masked men with mock explosive belts
They asked: 'Is that a storm, or did a volcano erupt?'
We answered: 'It is a storm of Fatah that was here'"
Narrator reads Fatah’s announcement from Jan. 1, 1965, after their attack against the Israel's National Water Carrier.
Posted text: "The Fatah Shabiba [Youth Movement] at the Ramallah and El-Bireh branch on the 55th anniversary of [Fatah’s] Launch”