Fatah: “Greatest heroic slaughter” was murder of 3 Israeli civilians in the Mothers’ Bus attack

“A squad of self-sacrificing fighters
planned to water the silent Negev Desert with its blood,
with the blood of these… heroes”

• “The greatest heroic slaughter, which even the biggest states in the world would not have been brave [enough] to carry out or think [of doing]”

• The Abu Jihad “miracle”

On March 7, 1988, Palestinian terrorists from the Fatah Movement hijacked a bus transporting Israeli workers to the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona. The terrorists murdered 3 passengers in the attack known as the Mothers' Bus attack because many of the passengers were working mothers. One of the murder victims was Victor Ram, a 39-year-old widowed father of three. The terrorists executed him first to show they were serious about killing hostages if Israel didn’t meet their demands for the release of all PLO prisoners from the Israeli jails. The terrorists also murdered Miriam Ben-Yair, 46, a mother of four, and Rina Shiratzky, 31, a mother of two, before being killed by Israeli soldiers who charged the bus.
 
After 33 years, for Abbas’ Fatah this is still cause for celebration. Fatah bragged about the attack and lauded it as “the greatest heroic slaughter,” referring to the murderers as “heroes” who “watered the Negev Desert with their blood”:

Posted text: “Thirty-three years since the heroic Dimona operation that was led and planned by commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’. On March 7, 1988, a squad of self-sacrificing fighters planned to water the silent Negev Desert with its blood, with the blood of these three heroes: Martyr fighter Muhammad Al-Khanafi, Martyr fighter Muhammad Al-Husseini [Issa], and Martyr fighter Abdallah Kallab. These three heroes decided to break into the [Israeli] nuclear reactor in Dimona following precise planning and preparation by the leadership of the Palestinian revolution. They succeeded in recording the greatest heroic slaughter, which even the biggest states in the world would not have been brave [enough] to carry out or think [of doing].
#Dimona
The [Fatah] Commission of Information and Culture”

[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, March 7, 2021]

Note: In the original Facebook post Fatah wrote certain words with typos, apparently an attempt to evade Facebook’s algorithms. These typos are omitted here for clarity but marked in the longer excerpt below.

The image shows arch-terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir - Abu Jihad - who was responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis, and the three terrorists who carried out the Mothers’ Bus attack.

Text on image: “The 33rd anniversary of the Dimona reactor operation
‘The Khalil Al-Wazir Miracle’”

Fatah also posted a video with what looks like footage from the aftermath of the attack.  Fatah lied, stating that “three Israeli officers and a female settler” were killed in the attack when in fact they murdered 3 Israeli civilians:

Posted text: “Today, March 7 [2021], is the 33rd anniversary of the heroic operation in Dimona that led to the death of three Israeli officers and a female settler (sic.). This followed precise planning and preparation by the Fatah Movement and the leadership of the Palestinian revolution.
#Dimona
The [Fatah] Commission of Information and Culture”

Text on screen: “On March 7, 1988, a self-sacrificing squad belonging to Fatah carried out the Dimona operation (i.e., murder of 3), in which an Israeli bus was hijacked  while it was transporting laborers and workers to the Israeli nuclear center. The self-sacrificing fighters demanded the release of the Palestinians whom Israel had arrested during the [first] Intifada, but the occupation forces attempted to attack the bus and the self-sacrificing fighters died as Martyrs and killed three Israeli officers and a woman (sic.).”

[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, March 7, 2021]

The following is a longer excerpt of Fatah’s Facebook post glorifying the murder of the 3 Israelis, including the typos inserted to confuse Facebook’s algorithm:

Posted text: “Thirty-three years since the heroic Dimona operation that was led and planned by commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125). On March 7, 1988, a squad of self-sacrificing fiiighters (the typo “fiiighters” is apparently an attempt to evade Facebook’s algorithms -Ed.) planned to water the silent Negev Desert with its blood, with the blood of these three heroes: Marty..r (the “..” here and in the following appearances of the word “Martyr” are also apparently an attempt to evade Facebook’s algorithms -Ed.) fighter Muhammad Al-Khanafi, Marty…r fighter Muhammad Al-Husseini [Issa], and Marty..r fighter Abdallah Kallab. These three heroes decided to break into the [Israeli] nuclear reactor in Dimona following precise planning and preparation by the leadership of the Palestinian revolution. They succeeded in recording the greatest heroic slaughter, which even the biggest states in the world would not have been brave [enough] to carry out or think [of doing].
#Dimona
The [Fatah] Commission of Information and Culture”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, March 7, 2021]

Mothers’ Bus attack – 3 Israelis – Miriam Ben-Yair, Rina Shiratzky, and Victor Ram – were murdered when the bus they were on that was carrying workers to the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists Muhammad Abd Al-Qader Muhammad Issa, Muhammad Khalil Saleh Al-Khanafi, and Abdallah Abd Al-Majid Muhammad Kallab on March 7, 1988. The attack is referred to as the Mothers' Bus attack because many of the passengers were working mothers. The terrorists were all killed by an Israel Police counter-terrorism unit.

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.