PA TV quiz show highlights mass murderer terrorist Abu Jihad
Official PA TV program Ramadan and the People, a quiz program for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan
Official PA TV host 1: “Khalil, our question for you today is: Give me an answer about a figure whose Martyrdom-death anniversary is marked today [April 16, 2021]. I want to see if you know without any information about [this person]… an influential Palestinian figure.”
Gazan resident Khalil: “I say that it may be Khalil Al-Wazir [‘Abu Jihad’] (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125)?”
Official PA TV host 2: “Correct answer.”
Hosts 1 and 2: “Great job!”
Host 1: “I had no doubt about the national knowledge of our people…
If you would like to give us a bit of information, then sure, [go ahead].”
Khalil: “Of course Khalil Al-Wazir’s name is like my name, Khalil, and I want- He was one of the people who gave for the sake of the revolution.”
Host 1: “Right.”
Khalil: “He was of course assassinated in Tunis by the Israeli Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service).”
Host 1: “Right.”
Khalil: “And of course he was assassinated in the period of the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately 200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993), in 1988 I think.”
Host 2: “Do you know what Khalil Al-Wazir was called? What was his nickname?”
Khalil: “Abu Jihad, of course.”
Host 2: “Abu Jihad, but he had a nickname ‘the Prince of Martyrs.’”
Khalil: “The Engineer of the Revolution. Ah, also the Engineer of the Revolution.”
Host 1: “The Engineer of the Revolution, right, he had more than one nickname…
Congratulations, your prize is $100, which is being given-”
Host 2: “By the Bank of Palestine. The first national bank, Khalil.”
[Official PA TV, Ramadan and the People, April 16, 2021]