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]
The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance,” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." https://palwatch.org/page/9276
The terms “all means,” “all means of resistance,” “all forms,” are used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.
Uday Al-Tamimi - 22-year-old Palestinian terrorist who shot and murdered 18-year-old female Israeli soldier Sgt. Noa Lazar and wounded an Israeli security guard at the Shuafat checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on Oct. 8, 2022. Al-Tamimi managed to escape and later shot and wounded an Israeli security guard at the entrance to Ma’ale Adumim east of Jerusalem on Oct. 19, 2022, before other guards at the scene shot and killed him.
Khan Al-Ahmar is a site where Palestinian Bedouins have illegally erected dwellings and a school, mostly simple shacks, on land in Area C (i.e., land under full Israeli administration according to the Oslo Accords). The Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of these structures and offered alternative sites for them. A number of petitions to the Israeli Supreme Court against the demolition orders have been considered and then rejected by the court. As of October 31, 2018, the illegally constructed buildings have not been demolished. Palestinians have held protests at the site against the demolition, some of which have turned violent.