PA daily glorifies terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi and distorts the events of her lethal terror attack
Headline: “43 years since the death as a Martyr of female fighter Dalal Mughrabi”
“Yesterday [March 11, 2021] was the 43rd anniversary of the death as a Martyr of Palestinian female fighter Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led the murder of 37 people, 12 of them children)…
On the morning of March 11, 1978, Mughrabi disembarked with her squad from two ships that passed opposite the Palestinian coast (i.e., Israeli coast), and the operation of disembarking to the coast and arriving succeeded without the Israelis discovering them, because they did not correctly estimate the Palestinians’ courage.
Dalal and her squad succeeded in reaching the direction of Tel Aviv and they took control of a bus with all its soldier passengers (sic., all the passengers were civilians on vacation). When the confrontation with the Israeli parties outside the bus arrived, this operation led to the death of hundreds of killed and wounded on the Israeli side (sic., in total, 37 civilians were murdered and over 70 wounded). In light of the great losses, the Israeli government appointed a special group of the army led by [then Israeli military commander] Ehud Barak to stop the bus and to kill and arrest its passengers. They used planes and tanks to surround the self-sacrificing fighters, which made Dalal Mughrabi blow up the bus and its passengers, which led to the killing of the soldiers and the Israelis (sic., Israeli civilians).”
The article includes two images. The image on the left is an altered image of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, showing her head on the body of a woman wearing a keffiyeh (Arab headdress). The image on the right is a photograph from the time of the attack in which Mughrabi’s body is being lifted by an Israeli soldier.
Dalal Mughrabi – female Palestinian terrorist who led the attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70. In text note: (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children)