PA: Arch-terrorist Abu Jihad was “a symbol and a hero”
Official PA TV reporter: “He is the Prince of Martyrs and the engineer of the first Intifada, the man and the symbol in the history of the Palestinian struggle and one of the founders of the Fatah Movement. Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), the name that for a long time occupied the minds of the most senior officers of the [Israeli] enemy and its intelligence services… They assassinated him under the direct command of [then IDF commander] Ehud Barak, and thus Palestine lost a heroand founder of an idea, a belief, and a struggle.”
[Official PA TV News, April 17, 2024]
Ehud Barak later served as Israel’s Prime Minister.