Fatah announces that “our only conflict is with” Israel
Headline: “The Fatah Central Committee: Our only conflict is with the occupation and we will not be dragged into secondary conflicts”
“The Fatah Movement Central Committee emphasized that the attempts by the [Israeli] right-wing government and the extremist settlers to break our people’s will of resolve and to decide the conflict by force of massacres, terror, and destroying the idea of the Palestinian state have failed in the face of the strength of the struggle and resistance of our people and our fighters in the noble arenas of confrontation against all aggression.
In a statement yesterday, Thursday [July 6, 2023], the Fatah Central Committee added that our only conflict is with the occupation and the settler Zionist project… and it commented on the legendary resolve and brave resistance of the heroes of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (i.e., Fatah’s military wing) and the fighters from all the national factions in the Jenin refugee camp (refers to 2023 Operation Home and Garden; see note below -Ed.).”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 7, 2023]
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested. During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.