PA TV praises terrorists and murderers: "we turn to them with a salute and appreciation"
Official PA TV program Giants of Endurance, on a meeting with families of terrorist prisoners from Jerusalem
Prisoner’s relative Abu Azzam: “From this blessed place on this blessed month, we people of Jerusalem turn to our heroic prisoners, to all those who are in the arena of imprisonment, to the abducted, Alaa Al-Bazian (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 2 people), Adnan Maragha (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1), Jamal, and all the heroic prisoners, Majdi Za’atri (i.e., terrorist, involved in the murder of 23 people), Ayman Sharbati (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1), Murad Al-Ajlouni (i.e., terrorist, involved in the murder of 3 people), Ahmed [Abu] Khader (i.e., terrorist, involved in numerous attacks including the murder of 2 people), Husam Shehadeh (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 6), and all our prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, to Karim Younes (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 person together with an accomplice), Marwan Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were murdered), and all the prisoners. We turn to them with a salute and appreciation and tell them: We will meet you when you are free under the Jerusalem skies, free of the occupation, the prison, and the prison guard.”
Official PA TV host: “Well done, Abu Azzam. May Allah give you health, and Allah willing, just as we welcomed you so too we will welcome the rest of the prisoners, especially the prisoners of the occupied capital [Jerusalem], all of them free outside of the prison’s darkness.”
Husam Shehadeh – Palestinian terrorist and member of the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) convicted for his role in a terror cell that carried out a series of lethal shooting attacks between January 2001 and January 2002. The first attack was the murder of Akiva Pashkos on Jan. 25, 2001, in Atarot, in northern Jerusalem. Shehadeh was also involved in the murder of Yaniv and Sharon Ben Shalom, and Sharon’s brother Israeli soldier Sergeant Doron Sviri, in an attack on Aug. 25, 2001, on Route 443 between Jerusalem and Modiin. Yaniv and Sharon’s two infant daughters, 20 months and eight months old, were also wounded in the attack. The last of the series of shooting attacks took place on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem on Jan. 22, 2002, in which Ora Sandler and Sarah Hamburger were murdered and over 40 others were wounded. Shehadeh was arrested, and was convicted of both the murders and of planning a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Shehadeh is serving 6 life sentences.