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“The self-sacrificing fighters succeeded in killing” - Fatah glorifies murder of 3 civilians

The Dimona operation (i.e., terror attack, 3 murdered), March 7, 1988

- On March 7, 1988, three heroes demonstrated heroism and daring of the most spectacular kind
- Planned by Martyr commander Abu Jihad, the Dimona operation was carried out
- The goal of the operation was the release of the Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prisons
- The three who carried it out –commander Martyr Kallab, Martyr Saleh, and Martyr Al-Husseini – 
set out to the [nuclear] reactor in Dimona in the Negev desert, which is surrounded by the most complicated security measures
- The heroes broke through an Israeli check point and took control of a bus transporting officers (sic.) and workers to the reactor
- On the way, attack helicopters stopped them and an unequal battle between them and the occupation soldiers broke out
- The self-sacrificing fighters succeeded in killing 3 soldiers and a woman (sic., 3 civilian hostages) before they died as Martyrs
- The bodies of the three Martyrs are still being held by the occupation in the numbered cemeteries (i.e., Israeli cemeteries for temporary burial of terrorists)

Al-Asifa Fatah - the Palestinian National Liberation Movement
[Fatah] Commission of Information and Culture; the southern districts.

Posted text on Facebook page: “The 34th anniversary of the Dimona operation (i.e., Mothers’ Bus attack, 3 murdered), which was planned by Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125)
- On March 7, 1988, three heroes demonstrated heroism and daring of the most spectacular kind
- Planned by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad,’ the Dimona operation was carried out
- The goal of the operation was the release of the Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prisons
- The three who carried out the operation – operation commander Martyr Abdallah Abd Al-Majid Kallab, Martyr Muhammad Khalil Saleh [Al-Khanafi], and Martyr Muhammad Abd Al-Qader Muhammad Al-Husseini [Issa] – set out
- They set out to the [nuclear] reactor in Dimona in the Negev desert, which is surrounded by the most complicated security measures
- The heroes broke through an Israeli check point and took control of a bus that was transporting officers (sic.) and workers to the reactor
- On the way, attack helicopters stopped them and an unequal battle between them and the occupation soldiers broke out
- The self-sacrificing fighters succeeded in killing three soldiers and a woman (sic., 3 civilian hostages, 2 of them women and 1 a man) before they died as Martyrs
- The bodies of the three Martyrs are still being held by the occupation in the numbered cemeteries (i.e., Israeli cemeteries for temporary burial of terrorists)
- This operation was the main reason for the Israeli Cabinet deciding to assassinate Abu Jihad”

Mothers’ Bus attack

Abu Jihad

Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties


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