Fatah organizes “very violent confrontations” with Israel, says Fatah official
Official PA TV, special broadcast on violent Arab riots and Hamas rocket barrages; see note below
Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan: “Our message today [May 18, 2021] is that historical Palestine from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River is united in one political identity, one fate, and one goal… and that these young revolutionary people from the sea to the river are emphasizing day after day that Palestine, Almighty Allah willing, will return and be liberated, and that the eternal capital Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of Palestine (refers to violent Arab riots; see note below -Ed.)… All of these massacres and the new Nazism that the Israeli occupation is using will not have an effect, and the [mentality of] defeatism that existed among our Palestinian people from 1965 (sic., until 1965; refers to Fatah’s first terror attack in 1965, see note below) and from 1948 has changed. The settlers and their project will certainly pass, and they have begun to leave and to go due to this heroic stand from the sea to the river and in the diaspora…
We in the Fatah Movement have called on all our fighters, supporters, and young people to gather at all the routes, and there are a number of central routes: in the direction of Shavei Shomron, in the area of the [refugee] camps, and in the area of eastern Nablus. Following the afternoon prayers they will set out towards the Hawara checkpoint, and in eastern Nablus they will set out to the Beit Furik checkpoint, and in the south they will set out towards Jamma’in and Beita and Burin… Today we expect that there will be violent – and very violent – confrontations, and our young people will be present at all the checkpoints, Almighty Allah willing.”
[Official PA TV, May 18, 2021]