Fatah praises “the red prince” Ali Hassan Salameh

The Fatah Movement – Gaza Strip Branch posted an image and text on its Facebook page

The image shows terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh, former commander of operations in Europe of the Black September terror organization. In the upper right corner is the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”

Text on image: “The Fatah Movement Commission of Information and Culture in the southern districts (i.e., the Gaza Strip)

Jan. 22, 1979

Forty-four years since the death as a Martyr of the commander, the Red Prince

Ali Hassan Salameh

Founder of the security forces to protect the PLO leadership”

Posted text: “#Fatah_memory

The 44th anniversary of the death as a Martyr of commander Ali Hassan Salameh ‘the Red Prince’

Founder of the security forces to protect the PLO leadership

Today, Sunday [Jan. 22, 2023], is the 44th anniversary of the death as a Martyr of commander Ali Hassan Salameh ‘the Red Prince,’ founder of the security forces to protect the PLO leadership (later on Force 17) [parentheses in source]…

[Israeli] Prime Minister Golda Meir gave him the nickname ‘the Red Prince,’ and this nickname also designated him among the Palestinian national movement’s political analysts and members of the press.”

[Fatah Movement – Gaza Strip Branch, Facebook page, Jan. 22, 2023]

Ali Hassan Salameh - Palestinian terrorist and commander of operations in Europe of the Black September terror organization - a secret branch of Fatah - in the 1970s. He planned many terror attacks, including the attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics on Sept. 5, 1972, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered. Salameh was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on Jan. 22, 1979. Israel is thought to be responsible for his death, but has not officially taken responsibility for it.