Fatah “calls to escalate” violence
Headline: “Fatah calls to escalate the popular resistance to the occupation in response to the policy of home demolitions and forced uprooting”
“The Fatah Movement called on the masses of our Palestinian people to escalate the popular resistance in all its forms (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) against the Israeli occupation and its terrorist policy, in response to the incessant demolitions of our people’s homes, the latest of which was the demolition of the home of Martyr Uday Al-Tamimi (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1) in the Shuafat refugee camp…
In a statement from the [Fatah] Commission of Information, Culture, and Ideology today, Wednesday, [Jan. 25, 2023,] Fatah said that the policy of demolitions and collective punishment of the Martyrs’ families reflects the essence of the fascism that the occupation system represents. It emphasized that the demolition of homes in the Palestinian territories are part of the policy of uprooting – ‘transfer’ – that it is attempting to implement in order to expel our people and put an end to their eternal and historical existence (sic., the Palestinians have no history prior to the modern period).
Fatah demanded that the international community and the human rights organizations intervene immediately to prevent the occupation system from implementing its colonialist and occupation-related goals, in addition to the incessant threats to forcibly uproot Khan Al-Ahmar and its residents (refers to illegal Bedouin settlement; see note below -Ed.).
Fatah emphasized that Fatah will make every effort to defend our people’s historical rights, and foremost among them the right to establish the independent and sovereign Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem.”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Jan. 25, 2023]