Fatah distorts and inflates the murder of 11 in “heroic” Savoy terror attack
Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch
Posted text: “45 years (sic., 46 years) since the heroic Savoy operation (i.e., terror attack, 11 murdered)
Communications Office, [Fatah’s] Nablus Branch
In the life of the fighting nations and peoples, including our Palestinian people, there are eternal memories and struggles, and a people that does not read the history of its struggles, which were immersed in the blood of the Martyrs, is not worthy of living. Our Palestinian people has eternal national memories in the month of March, the most prominent of which is the Savoy operation on March 6, 1975.
The self-sacrificing operation at the Savoy [Hotel] is considered one of the greatest high-quality operations of the Al-Asifa forces, the military wing of the Fatah Movement, and dozens of [Israeli] officers were killed in it (sic., of the 11 murdered 3 were soldiers attempting a rescue operation). There is no precise number of those killed (sic.), but the number is between 50 to 100 killed soldiers and officers on the Israeli side, and over 150 wounded soldiers and officers (sic.). One of those killed was [Israeli Army] Colonel Uzi Yairi, one of the senior intelligence officers who commanded the Verdun Operation (sic., while Yairi was commander of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, PMW found no evidence he participated in Operation Spring of Youth, known in Arabic as the Verdun Operation, much less commanded it –Ed.), in which the three leaders [Kamal Nasser, Kamal Adwan, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar] (i.e., senior leaders of the Black September terror organization) were assassinated. The operation was revenge for the assassination of leaders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar. It should be noted that leader Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist responsible for murder of 125) personally oversaw this operation…
The goal of the operation and the instructions of Martyr leader Abu Jihad to the heroic members of the squad:
‘1. The goal is the release of our heroic prisoners from all the Israeli prisons.
2. To avenge the death of the three Martyr leaders.
3. Through the heroism and courage of the Fatah members, we will serve as an example to all the revolutionaries in the world.
4. We will act as one in carrying out the operation, with a spirit of cooperation, comradery, and love between the members of the squad.
5. The cultured face of our revolution will triumph, through the cooperation and our treatment of the hostages, as we will not kill even one of them (sic., civilians were murdered both during the takeover of the hotel and during the Israeli rescue operation).
6. If there are women and children, we must treat them well.
7. We will realize the right of return to our historical land and wave the flag of Palestine on the land of Palestine.
8. Whoever is captured by the enemy must hold his head high with pride like the mountains of the Galilee…’
45 years (sic., 46 years) after the Savoy operation, we say that the struggle with the Zionist enemy is still open, and that it will only end when the Palestinian people’s historical rights are achieved: return, self-determination, and building the independent Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem.”
The image shows a monument dedicated to the terrorists who committed the Savoy terror attack. The monument features the names of “the heroic Martyrs.”
The image shows an old poster featuring the terrorists who committed the Savoy terror attack holding various weapons.
Text on poster: “A Greek boat and flamethrowers in the Tel Aviv operation”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, March 10, 2021]