Coastal Road Massacre anniversary: Fatah’s perennial festival of terror
- Fatah's Student Movement about terrorist murderer Mughrabi:
"The Bride of Jaffa
48 years since the Martyrdom of fighter Dalal Mughrabi who engraved the name of Palestine in the heart of the occupied land through her heroism and sacrifice"
"We still proudly carry her name today in the Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement… and carry her legacy and spirit in every new generation of young female Palestinian fighters"
- Fatah: "Dalal took the flag of Palestine out of her bag, kissed it humbly, and then hung it inside the bus while repeatedly saying: My land, my land, my land, my love and my heart are yours. She saluted it in an unprecedented historic scene considered the prelude to the establishment of the State of Palestine"
Fatah terrorist Dalal Mughrabi led one of the deadliest terror attacks in Israeli history – the 1978 Coastal Road massacre – in which 37 people, among them 12 children, were murdered. Yet Mughrabi is upheld as a role-model by the Palestinian Authority.
In March, as documented by Palestinian Media Watch in previous years, the PA and Fatah celebrate the anniversary of the Coastal Road attack, glorifying Mughrabi as a "fighter" and "Martyr" bestowed with the endearing nickname the "Bride of Jaffa." They venerate her "heroism and sacrifice" and condemn any effort to "thwart any project commemorating" the memory of this mass-murderer.
For the anniversary of the massacre, Fatah chose to post strong images of the burnt-out bus and an illustration of Mughrabi as a hero shooting out of the bus:
An illustration of Mughrabi shooting out of the hijacked bus, in which civilian hostages including women and children are sitting – in contradiction of the PA's false claim that a military bus was hijacked.
Text on image: "Dalal and her squad managed to reach the main road leading to Tel Aviv, and the squad confronted the occupation (i.e., Israeli) army forces. Afterwards, Dalal took the flag of Palestine out of her bag, kissed it humbly, and then hung it inside the bus while repeatedly saying: My land, my land, my land, my love and my heart are yours. She saluted it in an unprecedented historic scene considered the prelude to the establishment of the State of Palestine"
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2026]
The wreckage of the hijacked bus.
Text on image: "The Israeli forces uncovered the operation because of the bus being late to reaching its stations on time. A large group from the army and border police was mobilized to confront the self-sacrificing fighters. Dalal gave the order to confront, and a fierce battle took place, during which Dalal Mughrabi and the squad members died as Martyrs, after the occupation army suffered 30 killed and 80 wounded (sic., 37 civilians were murdered in the attack). Two [of the squad members] were captured, they are prisoner Khaled Abu Asba and Hussein Fayyad, and Fatah released them in a prisoner exchange deal in 1983"
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2026]
Fatah's Student Movement Shabiba is consistent with mainstream Fatah's messaging – it is not a fringe student movement. Far from hiding from Mughrabi's atrocities, Fatah's Shabiba wallows in it, walking the reader through the attack in a Facebook post and even exaggerating certain elements of it as well as its outcome by inflating the number of those her terror cell murdered into the "hundreds."
Shabiba proudly assumes the role of instilling Mughrabi's "legacy and spirit" into every generation of young Palestinian women:
Text on image: "The Bride of Jaffa
48 years since the Martyrdom of fighter Dalal Mughrabi
One of the Fatah fighters in Lebanon in the 1970s, who engraved the name of Palestine in the heart of the occupied land through her heroism and sacrifice
Posted text: "In 1978, a squad of Fatah heroes carried out an operation (i.e., terror attack) under the leadership of a young woman
48 years since the Martyrdom of female fighter Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children) – the Bride of Jaffa
One of the female fighters of the Fatah Movement, who engraved the name of Palestine in the heart of the occupied land through her heroism and sacrifice. We still proudly carry her name today in the Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement under the name ‘The Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi' (i.e., Palestinian universities' Fatah committee) and carry her legacy and spirit in every new generation of young female Palestinian fighters."
[Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement, Facebook page, March 11, 2026]
In Fatah's celebration of the massacre cited above, PA Chairman Abbas' party also included I photo of arch-terrorist Abu Jihad instructing the terrorists before the attack:
Arch- terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir - Abu Jihad - who was responsible for the murder of 125 people, planning this or another attack with other terrorists.
Text on image: "Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad' assigned self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi to lead the Kamal Adwan operation, which he planned in response to how [Ehud] Barak (then military commander and later prime minister of Israel -Ed.) disguised himself as a woman during the assassination operation of Fatah leaders. The operation plan included landing on the Palestinian coast, taking over a military (sic., civilian) bus, and traveling to Tel Aviv to attack the Israeli Parliament building (the Israeli Parliament building is in Jerusalem -Ed.). The squad included 12 people in addition to Dalal and was named the Kamal Adwan squad"
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2026]
Text on image: "Dalal pulled out the flag of Palestine and called: ‘My land, my land, my land, my love and my heart are yours'"
Posted text: "Dalal [Mughrabi] (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children) pulled out the flag of Palestine and called: ‘My land, my land, my land, my love and my heart are yours.' The 48th anniversary of the Martyrdom of one of the female fighters of the Fatah Movement, self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi, and her comrades, heroes of the Kamal Adwan operation (i.e., the Coastal Road massacre, 37 murdered; Kamal Adwan was a Fatah terror leader)."
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2026]
The following are excerpts of the texts glorifying murderer Mughrabi and her attack that Fatah's Youth Movement Shabiba chose to share in the post cited above (longer excerpt below):
"The Palestinian self-sacrificing fighters competed to participate in this operation, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was then 20 years old. She was chosen to lead the squad that carried out the operation, which included 10 self-sacrificing fighters. … This operation resulted in hundreds of killed and wounded on the Israeli side (sic., 37 civilians were murdered)."
"Martyrdom
… The Israeli forces used planes and tanks to encircle the squad. Considering the encirclement and confrontation, Dalal Mughrabi blew up the bus, which led to the deaths of several Israeli soldiers (sic.). … [then military commander and later Israeli Prime Minister] Barak ordered heavy fire on the self-sacrificing fighters, and they all died as Martyrs (sic., 2 terrorists were captured alive)."
"The Bride of Jaffa
The life story of Dalal Mughrabi, known as ‘the Bride of Jaffa,' remains powerfully present in the Palestinian national memory, as many young women in the Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement bear her name to this day under the nickname ‘The Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi.'
The Israeli governments continued to fight against her, even after her death, and strive to thwart any project commemorating her memory."
[Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement, Facebook page, March 11, 2026]
All talk of reform in the Palestinian Authority remains hollow and meaningless, as long as terror and terrorists continue to be promoted as celebrated acts performed by heroes, and one of the central tenets of Palestinian education and culture.
The following are longer excerpts of Fatah Shabiba's post cited above:
"The Deir Yassin squad planned the operation under the supervision of Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad' (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125). It landed on the Palestinian coast (sic., Israeli coast), took control of a military bus (sic., civilian bus), and drove towards Tel Aviv to attack the Israeli Parliament building (sic., the Israeli Parliament is in Jerusalem). The Palestinian self-sacrificing fighters competed to participate in this operation, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was then 20 years old. She was chosen to lead the squad that carried out the operation, which included 10 self-sacrificing fighters. The operation was named the Kamal Adwan Operation' (i.e., named after Fatah terror leader), while the squad was called the Deir Yassin Squad.
On the morning of March 11, 1978, Dalal and her squad disembarked from two boats that passed off the Palestinian coast. The disembarkation and arrival operation succeeded without the Israelis being able to uncover it, because they underestimated the courage of the Palestinians.
Dalal and her squad managed to reach towards Tel Aviv (sic., Haifa) and took control of a bus, with all its soldier passengers (sic., civilian passengers), while the confrontation continued with other Israeli elements outside the bus. This operation resulted in hundreds of killed and wounded on the Israeli side (sic., 37 civilians were murdered).
Martyrdom
Considering the losses suffered by Israel, the [Israeli] government appointed a special unit from the army led by [then military commander and later Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak to stop the bus and eliminate the self-sacrificing fighters. The Israeli forces used planes and tanks to encircle the squad. Considering the encirclement and confrontation, Dalal Mughrabi blew up the bus, which led to the deaths of several Israeli soldiers (sic.). When the ammunition was exhausted, Barak ordered heavy fire on the self-sacrificing fighters, and they all died as Martyrs (sic., 2 terrorists were captured alive).
The Bride of Jaffa
The life story of Dalal Mughrabi, known as ‘the Bride of Jaffa,' remains powerfully present in the Palestinian national memory, as many young women in the Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement bear her name to this day under the nickname ‘The Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi.'
The Israeli governments continued to fight against her, even after her death, and strive to thwart any project commemorating her memory, as they did when they threatened to destroy the land project inaugurated on March 14, 2011, in El-Bireh, initiated by the Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement."
[Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement, Facebook page, March 11, 2026]
Fatah Shabiba also shared another Dalal Mughrabi-glorification post, in honor of International Women's Day:
Posted text: "On International Women's Day, we salute the Palestinian woman, the partner in the struggle, and the keeper of the dream.
Greetings to our sisters in the Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement ‘Sisters of Dalal', who carry the flag of honor, march on the path of freedom with perseverance and commitment, and write with their resolve chapters in the story of Palestine's liberation.
Every year, the women of Palestine are the pulse of the struggle. From your resolve, one day the dawn of the homeland will be born."
The picture second from the right is of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.
Text on image: "The ladies of the land and partners in the struggle, O keepers of the dream and protectors of the heritage, from your resolve the dawn of the homeland will be born."
[Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement, Facebook page, March 8, 2026]