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"We must escalate the popular resistance" demands District Governor, in a call to increase Arab violence

Headline: “Processions and confrontations in the West Bank condemning the occupation’s crimes in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip”

 

 

“Qalqilya District Governor Rafe’ Rawajbeh emphasized the religious and historical status of Jerusalem and emphasized that we must escalate the popular resistance (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) in order to deter the occupation from carrying out its plans to Judaize the city.”

 

 

 

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance,” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." https://palwatch.org/page/9276

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