Murderer who led killing of 37 glorified by PA as “legend that never dies”
Official PA TV newsreader: “Today is the 44th anniversary of the death as a Martyr of female Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., led murder of 37, 12 of them children).”
Official PA TV reporter: “The legend that never dies, Dalal Mughrabi, one of the most famous self-sacrificing fighters of Palestine who died on this day in 1978 when she landed together with her squad to carry out a self-sacrificing operation (i.e., terror attack) against the occupation army’s ranks in Tel Aviv…
The Deir Yassin squad spread out the plan of Martyr leader Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ to carry out an operation: Land on the coast, take control of a military (sic., civilian) bus, and head to Tel Aviv to attack the Israeli Parliament building (sic.). The self-sacrificing fighters competed with each other over who would participate in it, foremost among them Mughrabi who was in her 20s. She was chosen as the leader of the squad that would carry out the operation…
Mughrabi and her comrades succeeded in reaching Tel Aviv (sic.) and taking control of a bus and all its passengers who were soldiers (sic., all were civilians). In the exchange of fire with other soldiers outside the bus, the operation left killed and wounded people among the occupiers…
Dalal, one of the first names of Palestine… a daughter of Jaffa (i.e., Israeli city) who was the first female military commander in the history of the modern Palestinian struggle and led the bravest military operation in our history.”
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