Fatah official against Israeli demand to cut prisoners’ salaries
“[Q:] ‘Does Israel want to ignite events that are tied to the Al-Aqsa Mosque from time to time?’
[Fatah Central Committee member, Fatah Commissioner of Mobilization and Organization in the West Bank, and PLO Central Council member Jamal Muhaisen:] '… At the height of everything that happened, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's insolence made him demand that the Palestinians stop the salaries (rawatib) of the Martyrs (Shahids) and prisoners, even as he receives the killer of two of our brothers in Jordan (Israeli security guard ín Jordan who shot and killed a terrorist who attacked him, see note below –Ed.) boastfully and calls him and says that he kept his promise to him [to get him out of Jordan], and this killer was received with hugs instead of them putting him on trial! However, our people that defends its land and holy sites will continue in its struggle until its freedom and independence are achieved, and we were already witness to the fact that in this battle (i.e., over Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount, see note below –Ed.) - which the occupation began – the young Palestinians, and particularly in Jerusalem, rose up as one man and led those carrying out the intifada and carrying out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict/war over land claimed to be Islamic).’"
[Falestinona, website of Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Aug. 1, 2017]
The article appears in the August 2017 edition of the magazine of Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Al-Quds, and was posted on the commission’s website Falestinona on Aug. 1, 2017.
Ziv Moyal, an Israeli security guard at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, shot and killed a Jordanian terrorist who stabbed him with a screwdriver outside the embassy on July 23, 2017. Moyal accidentally shot and killed a bystander in the process, and took refuge in the embassy. Amid Jordanian threats to sentence him to death, the following day Israel secured his return and the return of the entire embassy staff, opened an investigation into the incident, and agreed to pay compensation to the family of the bystander. The move came the same night that Israel decided to remove the metal detectors and security cameras it had placed at the Temple Mount entrances following a terror attack there on July 14, 2017, in which three Israeli Arab terrorists murdered 2 Israeli border police officers.
The mention of "this battle" refers to Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount, including metal detectors at the entrances, following an attack there on July 14, 2017, in which 2 Israeli border police officers were murdered by 3 Israeli Arab terrorists. On July 24, 2017, Israel decided to remove the metal detectors and security cameras it had placed at the site. The PA continued to demand that all measures including inspections at the entrances be removed, and Palestinians continued to riot. On July 27, 2017, PA religious leaders declared that all Israeli measures had been removed.