Fatah glorifies terrorist Fatima Barnawi, movie theatre bomber, as a "unique and extraordinary personality"
Image and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
The image shows terrorist Fatima Barnawi, who placed a bomb in a movie theater, wearing a PA Security Forces uniform.
Posted text: “Female fighter Fatima Barnawi.
One of the most prominent Palestinian female fighter figures.
She joined the Fatah Movement when she was 18. Her unique and extraordinary personality became known in her national commitment.
She is considered the first female prisoner in the history of the modern Palestinian revolution, which [also] makes her the first among the sisters who appeared on the lists of the female prisoners’ movement, and this was in 1967.
She broke her prison chains on Nov. 11, 1979 (sic., she was released in 1977) and immediately afterwards continued her national struggle with the revolutionary forces in Lebanon. After leaving Lebanon, she was among the ranks of those who returned to the homeland, in order to be appointed by Martyr, leader, symbol, and founder [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat to shaping and leading the [PA] women’s police force.”
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.