Fatah mourns female terrorist hijacker who died of cancer

Images and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page

Posted text: “The Fatah Movement eulogizes fighter Theresa Halsa (i.e., terrorist and plane hijacker, involved in murder of 1)

With great sorrow and heavy grief, Fatah eulogizes fighter, released prisoner, and director of the portfolio of the wounded in the Jordanian arena Theresa Halsa ‘Um Salman.’

For those who do not know, Theresa Halsa is a Jordanian [whose father is from] Karak, and her mother is a Palestinian from Acre.

[She was] the first Arab female self-sacrificing fighter (Fida’iya), a Jordanian Christian who hijacked a planewith 140 Israeli passengers on board (sic., 90 passengers, not all of whom were Israelis).

She demanded to release Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners in 1972, when she was 17 years old.

She was arrested and released in 1983 as part of a prisoner exchange deal…

Your name will be commemorated in history in letters of light as long as we live.”

The images show Theresa Halsa at different times of her life, including one of her being sentenced following the attack and one of her lying in a hospital bed being embraced by a young girl.

Theresa Halsa