Senior PA official meets released “heroic national commander” terrorist prisoner

Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh posted images and text on his Facebook page

The images show Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh sitting with released terrorist prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki, a senior PA official and weapons smuggler.

Posted text: “On a visit to my beloved brother, heroic national commander Fuad Al-Shubaki, after 21 years of imprisonment in the occupation’s prisons. The years have passed and you have remained proud as you were, you smiled with patience for Palestine. How joyous it is to meet after a long separation.

Freedom to our heroic prisoners.”

[Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh, Facebook page, March 17, 2023]

Rawhi Fattouh also serves as Fatah Commissioner of International Relations

Fuad Al-Shubaki - Palestinian terrorist and senior PA official who was behind the attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority aboard the Karine A weapons’ ship in 2002. Al-Shubaki was sentenced to a 20-year prison term that was later reduced to 17 years, and was released on March 13, 2023.