Fatah council praises terrorists and glorifies violence against Israel
“On Aug. 24-25, 2023, the Fatah Movement Revolutionary Council held its 11th session in Ramallah (the session of Martyr Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Al-Masri (i.e., Fatah Revolutionary Council member who died in June 2023), Martyr [former Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs] Maj. Gen. Qadri Abu Bakr, all our people’s Martyrs, and support for our brave prisoners) [parentheses in source]…
The [Fatah] Revolutionary Council contacted the prisoners’ movement, due to it being a national universityand a front line of defense of the struggle and resistance, and said: ‘You are not alone against the occupation and its racist measures against you. We support you and salute each one of you, and especially Fatah Central Committee member leader Marwan Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were murdered), [Fatah] Revolutionary Council member leader Zakariya Zubeidi (i.e., Fatah terror leader), and the lauded female prisoners…
The Fatah Revolutionary Council also emphasized Fatah’s fundamental and permanent path: To take care of the Martyrs’ families, the prisoners, and the wounded, regardless of how great the sacrifices may be and how the pressures may increase, because they are at the heart and soul of Fatah, and thus they will remain.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 27, 2023]
Marwan Barghouti – Palestinian terrorist and member of the Palestinian Authority parliament who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating three shooting attacks in which 5 people were murdered: one attack on the Jerusalem-Maale Adumim road (June 12, 2001) in which Greek Orthodox monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was murdered by terrorists Ismail Radaida and Yasser Ah'Rabai, another attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which Yoela Hen was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one shooting and stabbing attack at the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, Yosef Habi, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna. When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected as a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected to Fatah's Central Committee.
Zakariya Zubeidi - Palestinian terrorist and head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing) in the Jenin area during the PA terror campaign (the second Intifada, 2000-2005), when he oversaw numerous lethal attacks. Zubeidi was taken off Israel's wanted list in 2007 on condition that he refrain from terror as part of a deal with the PA; he was subsequently given a position in the PA Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs and made a Fatah Revolutionary Council member. Zubeidi was arrested by Israel on Feb. 27, 2019, for breaching the deal by committing several shooting attacks with an accomplice - East Jerusalem lawyer Tareq Barghut who worked in the PA Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs - near Beit El north of Ramallah on Nov. 7, 2018 and Jan. 5, 2019, and north of Jerusalem in late 2018; Zubeidi used a car issued to him by the PA in the attacks. Israel has put Zubeidi on trial for all of his past terror activity. Zubeidi escaped from Israel’s Gilboa Prison on Sept. 6, 2021, together with 5 Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoners who shared a cell with him, by digging a tunnel out through the floor with a spoon.