Fatah brags it has more terrorists than Hamas
Fatah brags it took part in Hamas massacre: “We killed [them]… and stepped on their heads”
Fatah: Most terrorist “Martyrs” are from PA Security Forces or Fatah
Fatah spokesman brags of Fatah terror: “More than half” of terrorist prisoners are from Fatah
Fatah official: Even Hamas and Islamic Jihad admit “majority of life-sentenced” terrorists are from Fatah
PLO official: “No Palestinian will condemn” massacre of Israel on Oct. 7, Hamas and Fatah “together in struggle until [Israel] disappears”
Fatah is refusing to give up its status among Palestinians as the leading terror organization targeting Israelis. Seeing Hamas’ popularity surge among Palestinians after the October 7 Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel, Fatah—the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party—has stressed throughout the war that it has more terrorists, prisoners, and “Martyrs” against Israel “than any other faction.”
Already on October 7, Fatah was bragging that it participated in Hamas’ massacre so as not to be left out of popular Palestinian support for the atrocities. Palestinian Media Watch published the following video showing terrorists wearing yellow Fatah headbands participating in the terror invasion. Throughout the video, chants of “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is greatest”) are played in the background. PMW again warns of graphic images:
Text on screen: “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – military publicity – live images from the battle”
Fatah terrorist: “We have plundered from them… Today [Oct. 7, 2023] we broke into the military post Nahal Oz, and we hit what we hit, we took as plunder what we took, and we killed soldiers and stepped on their heads.”
Fatah terrorist: “You (i.e., Israelis) will see this with your own eyes, Allah willing.”
A Fatah terrorist places his foot on the head of a murdered young Israeli. Another, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, poses in front of an Israeli military vehicle.
Fatah terrorist: “Allahu Akbar and praise Allah… From the heart of these temporary settlements (i.e., Israeli cities and towns), Allah willing, we had a prominent and clear role.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]
Note that Nahal Oz is not a military base, as claimed by Fatah in the video, but is an Israeli civilian kibbutz, and most of those murdered on October 7 by Hamas and Fatah terrorists were Israeli civilians.
Since then, Fatah has continued to brag that “more than two-thirds” of terrorist prisoners are from Fatah and that Fatah was active on the terror scene “even before” October 7. They also emphasize the great number of dead Fatah terrorists—the so-called “Martyrs”—who are also said to far outnumber Hamas’ “Martyrs” in general. Furthermore, Fatah officials take pride in the fact that not only are their members terrorists, but, at the same time, some of them are also members of the PA Security Forces carrying out a double role as police officers by day and terrorists by night, as PMW has reported in the past.
Western leaders have been eager to promote Fatah and the PA as “moderates” who are suitable to form a new government in the Gaza Strip “the day after” the war. They would do well to read and watch these statements, and understand who the PA and Fatah really are.
Fatah official brags: Fatah has more terrorists than any other faction
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “We [in Fatah] are peaceful, but our Martyrs (i.e., dead terrorists) are more numerous than the Martyrs of all the factions combined, and also our prisoners (i.e., terrorists) are more than two-thirds of the prisoners in the prisons.”
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
May 16, 2024]
Fatah official brags: “Even before” Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre, Fatah “had already sacrificed more than 133,000 Martyrs”
Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdallah Kmeil: “Even before Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ war and massacre in Israel), we had already sacrificed more than 133,000 Martyrs, and these are Fatah’s statistics. Fatah alone sacrificed 133,000 Martyrs throughout the years of the Palestinian revolution. The Palestinian people [in Gaza] has sacrificed more than 40,000 Martyrs, so we are talking about [a total of] 173,000 Martyrs that the Palestinian people has sacrificed.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
May 21, 2024]
Fatah: Most terrorist “Martyrs” are from PA Security Forces or Fatah
Fatah Spokesman and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Jamal Nazzal: “In recent years, most of the Martyrs (i.e., dead terrorists) were from the [PA] Security [Forces] or from Fatah, and this has significance and meaning that everyone sees. The West Bank, in other words the PA, as you see is not in a state of repose, calm, submission, or waiting.”
[Alghad TV (Egypt), YouTube channel, March 21, 2024]
Fatah spokesman brags of Fatah terror: “More than half” of terrorist prisoners are from Fatah, some are PA Security Forces members
Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh: “Most of the Martyrs (i.e., terrorists) in the West Bank since the aggression (i.e., Gaza war) and even before that are Fatah members. More than that, they’re from the [PA] Security Forces… More than half of the prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in the occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) prisons are Fatah members. The other half, in other words, less than half are from all the rest of the factions together. 90% more or less of the Martyrs who ascended to Heaven in the Palestinian West Bank are from Fatah.”
Posted text: “Fatah Movement Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh (i.e., released terrorist, involved in murder of 1): We [Fatah] are the defenders of the national liberation project, we will never relinquish our responsibility to defend our people and the future of our cause, we will use all means and ways (i.e., Palestinian term that also refers to the use of violence and terror) according to the demands of each stage of the confrontation against the occupation, and the [Fatah] Movement members and heroes are in the battlefields.”
[“Fateh_Pal65,” X (Twitter) account, Nov. 20, 2023]
Fatah Deputy Secretary: “A great number of the Martyrs are members of [the PA] security forces and Fatah activists”
“Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam [in a] speech he gave on behalf of Fatah… emphasized that… those who ask where Fatah stands regarding what is happening [in the Gaza Strip], the answer lies in how a great number of the Martyrs who have ascended to Heaven in the Gaza Strip and West Bank are members of its security forces and Fatah activists… and how more than half of the prisoners are Fatah members”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 31, 2023]
Even Hamas and Islamic Jihad admit “majority of life-sentenced” terrorists are from Fatah – Fatah official
Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdallah Kmeil: “Even Hamas and the Hamas leaders say, and the brothers in Islamic Jihad also say that the great majority of those who were sentenced to long [prison] terms, the life-sentenced prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in the Israeli prison, are Fatah Movement members and [PA] Security Forces members.”
[Official PA TV, Dec. 18, 2023]
Fatah spokesman: “More than half” of the terrorists in prison “are from Fatah”
Official Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh: “Today we are speaking about nearly 8,000 prisoners inside the occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) prisons. More than half of the prisoners’ movement are from Fatah, and the remaining less than half are from the rest of the factions together. This shows that Fatah still adheres to the benefit of the struggle. It has carried the flag of armed struggle, it carried the flag of popular resistance in the Stone Intifada (i.e., 200 Israelis murdered), it returned to armed resistance in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., 1,100 Israelis murdered), and today it is in favor of popular resistance (i.e., violence and terror), and these strategies change and replace each other at every stage, but Fatah has not abandoned any one of its (i.e., terror) options.”
[Falestinona, Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, YouTube channel, Jan. 1, 2024]
Fatah official in Lebanon: “75%” of terrorist prisoners are from Fatah
“Secretary of Fatah and the PLO factions in Lebanon Fathi Abu Al-Ardat said: ‘59 years of Martyrs – tens and even hundreds of thousands of Martyrs – of wounded, and of heroic prisoners in the occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) prisons. Yes, 75% of these prisoners are from Fatah, with full honor and pride.’”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 31, 2023]
Fatah official stresses Fatah’s support for Hamas, “all Palestinian forces are fighting” against Israel
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “Since the start of Oct. 7 [2023] until now (i.e., Hamas’ terror war on Israel) there are 96 Martyrs [in the West Bank]. All sectors of the Palestinian people are fighting, without connection to their organizational affiliation…
The Israeli steps and the situation that existed before Oct. 7 are what led to what happened on Oct. 7… Everything that happened is what led to this explosion…In the West Bank, all the Palestinian forces are fighting against the occupation. They are all united and are everywhere and in all the cities, fighting as one with a joint decision against this occupation and against this aggression.”
[Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, Facebook page, Oct. 25, 2023]
Fatah official: “Fatah has never relinquished the rifle” and “participates” in Hamas’ war on Israel
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “Who said that Fatah is not participating in the fighting (i.e., Hamas’ terror war on Israel)? Who gave you this information and misled you that we are not participating? ... All the Palestinian organizations in the West Bank are fighting and coordinating among themselves on the ground... How many Martyrs are from Fatah? ... Fatah has never relinquished the rifle, and it has never relinquished the struggle.”
[Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, Facebook page,
Nov. 18, 2023]
PLO official: “No Palestinian will condemn” massacre of Israel on Oct. 7, Hamas and Fatah “together in struggle until [Israel] disappears”
Official PA TV host: “[Israeli PM Netanyahu] said that there will be no PA [ruling Gaza] whose President didn’t condemn what happened to the Israelis. That’s what Netanyahu said regarding Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre of Israelis).”
Head of the PLO Political and National Guidance Commission and PA Security Forces Spokesperson Talal Dweikat: “Not just His Honor President Mahmoud Abbas. They will not find [one] Palestinian who will make a decision like this and condemn what happened on Oct. 7… Currently the [Hamas-Fatah] rift in the Palestinian mindset is already behind us. Today we are all united against this [Israeli] aggression, and the occupation and all those attempting to break the Palestinian unity will be unable to succeed with these plans… We will continue together in our struggle at all levels until this occupation disappears, and until a Palestinian boy and girl wave the flag of Palestine from the minarets, walls, and churches in Jerusalem.”
[Official PA TV, Nov. 12, 2023]
Fatah official two weeks after Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7: “We are united and aiming our bullets” at Israel
Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan: “We as the Palestinian people are united in all the arenas of confrontation. We are united and aiming our bullets at the occupier and at the settlers.”
[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Oct. 21, 2023]
Fatah official brags that dead terrorists are from Fatah
“Fatah Movement Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner of Popular Organizations] Dr. Tawfiq Tirawi emphasized that ‘coordination exists on the ground in all the cities of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem between all components of Fatah,’ and he noted that two-thirds of the 250 Martyrs who died in confrontations in the West Bank and Jerusalem in the last year [2023] were from Fatah, and since Oct. 7. the number of Martyrs in the West Bank has reached 160 from among the fighters of a number of movements.”
[www.arabi21.com, Nov. 9, 2023]
For decades, PMW has documented that the PA and Fatah glorify and financially reward terror, profiling themeselves to Palestinians as leading in the terror campaign against Israel. For example, at the end of 2022, Fatah stressed that it had murdered 20 Israelis that year and that 90% of terrorist “Martyrs” were Fatah members. Back in 2016, PMW exposed that Fatah took pride in the fact that it has murdered 11,000 Israelis!
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