Official PA Daily praises terrorist Abu Jihad, responsible for the murder of 125 people
Headline: “33 years since the murder of the Prince of Martyrs Abu Jihad”
“Today, April 14, [2021,] is the 33rd anniversary of the death as a Martyr of commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 people), the deputy general commander of the revolution forces and engineer of the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately 200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993), who was murdered by the Israeli Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) in his home in Tunis [the capital of Tunisia] led by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak…
Among the military operations (i.e., terrorist attacks) that Abu Jihad planned: the Zohar reservoir bombing (i.e., near Beit Hanoun in Gaza) in 1955; the operation to blow up the Israeli National Water Carrier pipelines (Eilabun tunnel) in 1965; the Savoy Hotel operation in Tel Aviv and the killing of 10 Israelis (sic., 11) in 1975; the operation to blow up a truck bomb in Jerusalem (15 murdered –Ed.) in 1975; the operation to kill Albert Levy, the senior sapper, and his assistant, in Nablus in 1976; the Dalal Mughrabi operation, in which more than 37 Israelis were killed, in 1978; the operation to shell the Eilat Port in 1979; and the Katyusha fire on the northern settlements in Israel in 1981.
Israel also held Martyr [Abu Jihad] responsible for the capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, and their exchange for 5,000 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners and 100 of the detainees of the lands occupied in 1982 (sic., Israel released 4,700 terrorists held in Lebanon and 65 terrorists held in Israel). In addition, he also planned the infiltration of the headquarters of the Israeli military governor in Tyre and its bombing, leading to the deaths of 76 officers and soldiers, including 12 senior officers, in 1982; he led the war of attrition during the years 1982-1984 in southern Lebanon; and he planned the Dimona Reactor operation (i.e., Mothers’ Bus attack, 3 murdered) in 1988, which was the principal reason for his assassination.”
Bombing of Israel's National Water Carrier
Attack on “the northern settlements”
The capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon
Explosion in the Israeli military headquarters building in Tyre