Fatah praises "revolutionary leader" Abu Jihad, murderer of 125 people

Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture

The image shows on the left terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad,” who was responsible for the murder of 125, and on the right former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Posted text: “Remain revolutionary leaders and a wise president, a patient teacher, a merciful father, a Martyr brother, and ones who are beloved by your people forever.”

Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960s - 1980s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the Coastal Road attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.