Fatah student leader praises terrorists Abu Jihad, Abu Iyad, and Dalal Mughrabi, while touting how Fatah founded student terror units
Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning
Director of the Fatah Student Group in Lebanon Nazih Shama: “The Fatah Movement student group is where there was a historical breakthrough of student activity. Martyr, symbol, leader [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat, Martyr [Khalil Al-Wazir] ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), Salah Khalaf [‘Abu Iyad’] (i.e., former head of the Black September terror organization), and many of the great Martyr leaders dedicated themselves in 1965 to establishing the student activity through the General Union of Palestinian Students. After the events of 1973 (i.e., the Yom Kippur War), Fatah established the Student Company, which later became the Student Brigades, and later the Al-Jarmak Brigades (refers to student military units established by Fatah -Ed.), and they played a heroic role at Beaufort Castle and in many battles in which the Palestinian resistance participated. We hope that Allah will have mercy on the Martyrs of the Student Brigades, including Martyr Ali Abu Touq (i.e., a Fatah terror leader in the 1970s), Martyr Marwan Kayali (i.e., a Fatah terror leader in the 1980s), sister Martyr Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children), and other Martyr leaders.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Feb. 13, 2021]
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 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 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.
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - 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.
Dalal Mughrabi – female Palestinian terrorist who led the attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70. In text note: (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children)
Ali Abu Touq - Palestinian terrorist and a founder and leader of the Fatah student terror unit "the Student Brigades" during the 1970s. Abu Touq established a terror organization of high school girls called "The Daughters of Ali Abu Touq," among whose most prominent members was terrorist Dalal Mughrabi. Abu Touq oversaw a number of terror attacks, including one in which 6 Israeli soldiers were murdered on a bus in 1982.
Marwan Kayali - Palestinian terrorist and deputy commander of the Fatah student terror unit "the Al-Jarmak Brigades," who was involved in a number of terror attacks inside Israel in the 1980s. Arabic sources allege that Kayali was assassinated by the Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service).