Top PA official Rajoub defines imprisoned Palestinian terrorists as “hostages”
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “Everyone is speaking about Israeli hostages. We have thousands of Palestinian hostages (sic., imprisoned terrorists)... Today there is an opportunity for the world – instead of crying about the Israeli “hostages” as the Israelis call them – to look at the Palestinian prisoners. There are prisoners who have been imprisoned since 1985, no fewer than 15,000 hostages, around 5,000 before and 10,000 after Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre and terror war), 2,500-3,000 from the Gaza Strip, and 7,000 from the West Bank.”
[Al-Majalla, Saudi state-affiliated London-based news website,
March 23, 2024]