Fatah’s terror wing – the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades - “sides with” past terror leaders and suicide bombers
Visual: The video shows masked terrorists of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, posing with weapons.
Narrator: “We’ll say of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades [that they’re] the jewel in the crown of the revolution, the salt of the earth, the first rain, the rage of the thoughts, the moan of the soul, the torrent of the river, the burst of hope, the giants of the land, the legitimate heirs of [Yasser] Arafat, a loud sea wave, the tsunami of the generations, the vein of the resistance. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are self-sacrificing fighters, self-sacrificing fighters of rage and freedom. This is the revolution. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are the only ones who love, who love and think the river is a mirror. They side with Abu Ali Iyad (i.e., former Fatah terror leader), Saad Sayel (i.e., former Fatah terror leader), Abu Al-Hol (i.e., one of the founders of Fatah), [Khalil Al-Wazir] ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., responsible for murder of 125), [Salah Khalaf] ‘Abu Iyad’ (i.e., head of Black September), Raed Al-Karmi (i.e., responsible for murder of 9), Thabet Thabet (i.e., former Fatah terror leader), Atef Abayat (i.e., former Fatah terror leader), Ayyat Al-Akhras (i.e., suicide bomber, murdered 2). [They are] the army that fills the land with longings of those who love Jerusalem. If they are furious then the world is furious.”
Posted text on Fatah Facebook page: “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Jenin, Fatah’s military wing in Jenin”
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Aug. 18, 2022]
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.
Abu Ali Iyad - Palestinian terrorist appointed head of Fatah military operations in 1966 and responsible for several terror attacks. The attacks included a bombing in the town of Beit Yosef in northern Israel on April 25, 1966 (injuring 3 people), and placing bombs in the town of Margaliot in northern Israel on July 19, 1966. He was killed in 1971 in Jordan by the Jordanian army when it forced Fatah members out of the country.
Saad Sayel - Senior Fatah commander who led the PLO terrorist forces based in Lebanon during the early 1980s. Sayel was assassinated in Lebanon on Sept. 27, 1982, by unknown assailants.
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 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) - Palestinian terrorist, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s deputy, one of the founders of Fatah, and head of the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah. Attacks he planned include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972) and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973). It is commonly assumed that his assassin, a former Fatah bodyguard, was sent by the Abu Nidal Organization, a rival Palestinian faction.
Thabet Thabet - one of the founders of the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) in Tulkarem. Thabet was responsible for many shooting attacks against Israelis at the start of the 2000-2005 PA terror campaign (the second Intifada). Thabet was killed by the Israeli army on Dec. 31, 2000.
Raed Al-Karmi – Palestinian terrorist and senior Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) member responsible for the murder of 9 Israelis in several attacks: Etgar Zeituni and Motti Dayan on Jan. 23, 2001; Zvi Shelef on May 31, 2001; Danny Yehuda on June 18, 2001; Eliyahu Na’aman on July 4, 2001; Dov Roseman on Aug. 26, 2001; soldier Yaniv Levy on Aug. 28, 2001; Israeli army officer Erez Merhavi on Sept. 6, 2001; and Hananya Ben Avraham on Oct. 5, 2001. Al-Karmi was killed by the Israeli army on Jan. 14, 2002.
Atef Abayat – Palestinian terrorist and commander of the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) in Bethlehem who Israel suspected of being involved in the murder of 5 Israelis in shooting attacks: Sarit Amrani in the West Bank on Sept. 20, 2001; Tzachi Sasson south of Jerusalem on Feb. 11, 2001; Israeli soldier Danny Darai at Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem on April 2, 2001; and Israeli soldiers David Cohen and Shlomo Adshina near Bethlehem on Nov. 1, 2001. Abayat also shot at the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. Abayat was killed in a car explosion on Oct. 18, 2001; Palestinians accused Israel of assassinating him, although Israel never acknowledged this.
Ayyat Al-Akhras - The youngest female Palestinian suicide bomber (aged 17). A member of Fatah, Al-Akhras carried out a suicide bombing attack near a Jerusalem supermarket on March 29, 2002, murdering 2 and wounding 28.