PLO names youth sports centre after head of Black September terror organization
Official PA TV program Stories on the PA sports center for youth named after head of the terror organization Black September, Salah Khalaf. When Israel turned over the prison to the PA in 1995, the PA turned it into a sports center and named it after one of the terrorists who planned the Munich Olympics massacre.
Images in the center show Arafat, Salah Khalaf and Abbas.
Text on sign (in English): “Palestinian Liberation Organization, Higher Council for Youth and Sport, Martyr Salah Khalaf center – North Council”
Text on screen: “TheMartyr Salah Khalaf Center”
Director of the Martyr Salah Khalaf “Abu Iyad” Center Raed Al-Ja’aiseh: “After the withdrawal of the Israeli forces in 1995 from the Al-Faria Prison- At the beginning, [the prison] was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority, and more precisely to the Nablus Municipality. Afterwards it was transferred to the [PA] Ministry of Youth and Sports on the decision of [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Martyr Yasser Arafat. This center, the former [Al-Faria] Prison, was transferred to the Ministry of Youth and Sports.”