Palestinian Authority Oct. 7 libels: The PA/Fatah denied Hamas' massacre, alleged Israel committed the atrocities and wanted the attack
Palestinian Authority libels:
Oct. 7 attack, beheading of babies, rape, and burning of women are "stories and tales spun from the imagination"
Israel itself committed the Oct. 7 massacre to justify the attack on Gaza
Last week, Israel marked one year since Hamas' gruesome massacre and murder of over 1,100 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The number of Israelis murdered on Oct. 7 was 20 times America's 9/11 proportional to the population.
Over 3,800 Hamas terrorists and 2,200 Gazan civilians entered Israel from the Gaza Strip accompanied by a massive rocket fire, murdering children, youth, women, men, elderly, and disabled. They beheaded babies and burned entire families alive in their homes. They raped women in front of their children and shot children in front of their parents. They executed elderly. They took 251 young and old hostage – dead or alive.
Since Hamas' attack and launch of its terror war against Israel, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed the PA and Fatah's reactions to the massacre, to Hamas and Hezbollah's continued attacks on Israel, and to Israel's response.
While praising Hamas' carnage in southern Israel, the PA/Fatah also denied the massacre had even taken place, or else claimed that Israel had started the war and even committed the Oct. 7 atrocities itself. In addition, the PA/Fatah added that Hamas' attack served as an excuse for Israel to advance a pre-planned plot to empty not only the Gaza Strip but also the West Bank of Palestinians.
Here are some of PMW's reports on PA/Fatah denying and lying about Oct. 7 in the weeks after the massacre:
PA libel: Oct. 7 attack, beheading of babies, rape, and burning of women are "stories and tales spun from the imagination"
Outrageous PA libel: Israel itself committed the October 7 massacre to justify the attack on Gaza
Israel wanted Hamas attack to happen just as the US wanted Sept. 11, 2001 attacks - Fatah official libels Israel and the US
Top PLO official: Israel "killed their [own] civilians, committed all these crimes and burned the bodies"
PA denies Hamas murdered Israeli civilians, claims it fought "military squads"
PA TV libel: Israel lied about Hamas killing children
Top PA official lies, claims Hamas didn't murder children
Abbas' advisor lies, claims Hamas didn't murder children
Ignoring evidence, Abbas' advisor repeats libel that Israel – and the US - bombed Gazan hospital
Don't confuse us with the facts – PA repeats lie about hospital bombing
Abbas' advisor: Israel's defense is "satanic Israeli plan supported by the US" to empty "Palestine" of Palestinians
Abbas' advisor: Israel's goal is "to uproot and erase the Palestinian people"
October 7 denial: Palestinian Authority lies led to worldwide phenomenon
As more and more evidence has surfaced of the atrocities on Oct. 7, the outright denials of the massacre have become fewer. Some PA officials have instead shifted to criticizing Hamas for not consulting with the PA in advance:
- Abbas' advisor criticizes Hamas for not "consulting and briefing" the PLO about October 7 massacre insert video to play https://palwatch.org/page/35465
Others have called for more of the same and even for the genocide of Jews – kill them "one by one": insert video to play https://palwatch.org/page/35348
Meanwhile, others justify the massacre and all previous terror as "self-defense":
- PA Shari'ah Judge justifies Oct. 7 massacre and previous Palestinian terror waves as defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque insert video to play https://palwatch.org/page/35503
Even though there has been a diversity of comments and reactions to the Oct. 7 horrors, it would be difficult to find a Palestinian who openly speaks against what Hamas did to Israelis that day. On the contrary, Palestinian Media Watch exposed a poll showing that 98% of Palestinians say that the events of Oct. 7 "made them proud."