PLO and DFLP high official addresses terrorists: "With admiration we greet our brave prisoners in Israel’s collective detention camps: Comrades and brothers, pioneers of national unity”
PA TV broadcast celebrations commemorating the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Host: “From this teeming celebration we send greetings to Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and to the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, the symbols of our people: brother fighter Marwan Barghouti, comrade Ibrahim Abu Hajla, and Sheikh Hassan Yusuf and his fellow imprisoned Members of [the Hamas] Parliament, and to comrade Basem Al-Chandaqji, and to the symbols of the prisoners’ movement and its fighters.”
PLO Executive Committee member and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Political Bureau member: “With admiration we greet our brave prisoners in Israel’s collective detention camps: Comrades and brothers Ahmad Sa’adat and Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Abu Hajla and Abd Al-Haliq Al-Natche and Bassem Al-Khandaqji and thousands of prisoners, pioneers of national unity.”
Ibrahim Abu Hajla - Palestinian terrorist and member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). Hajla was sentenced to 24 years in prison for attempted murder, but was released in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal between the Israeli government and Hamas, but was later rearrested.
Sheikh Hassan Yusuf is a senior figure in Hamas.
Abd Al-Haliq Al-Natsheh was a Hamas commander in Hebron.