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Abbas'
Fatah vows to rebuild terrorist monument in Jenin
after
Israel dismantled it:
"It is our obligation to rebuild
it"
Solidarity monument erected in
Ramallah:
"This is a
monument in memory of Martyr Khaled Nazzal...
established as a challenge to the occupation
authorities
#The_Palestinian_people"
New
makeshift DFLP sign already up in Jenin
announcing
the "Martyr Comrade Khaled Nazzal Square"
DFLP on Israel
tearing down monument:
A "crime" which seeks to "harm the supreme value
of the 'Martyr'"
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Palestinian Media
Watch's recent exposure of the PA's new square in Jenin named after terrorist
Khaled Nazzal who was responsible for the murders of 31 Israelis, among them 22
children, led to public protests by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and others.
As a result, the mayor of Jenin briefly took down the monument in the square. However, only
two days later, he changed his mind and put the monument up again. On Friday,
the Israeli army entered Jenin and dismantled the terror-glorifying
monument.
Now Abbas' Fatah Movement has pledged to restore it:
"It does not matter how many times the occupation
removes the monument in memory of the Martyr - it is our obligation to rebuild
it."
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
Fatah further announced that - as an act of solidarity
with Jenin - a monument in honor of terrorist Nazzal has been placed by "young
people" in Ramallah (See photo above). Fatah stressed that terrorist Nazzal
"remains in our hearts, in our memory, in our squares, and in our
streets":
Text on monument: "This is a
monument in memory of Martyr (Shahid) Khaled Nazzal, which was
established as a challenge to the occupation authorities
#The_Palestinian_people"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
Posted text: "An initiative of
the young people in Ramallah; Khaled Nazzal remains in our hearts, in our
memory, in our squares, and in our streets, and the monument will return to
Jenin in order to serve as testimony to the period, to the history, and to a
special kind of fighter"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
 Already a makeshift sign marked with the logo
of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has been set up
in the square in Jenin where the monument stood, announcing the "Martyr Comrade
Khaled Nazzal Square." Fatah posted a photo of it and its "inscription":
"Martyr (Shahid) comrade Khaled Nazzal
Square,
Member of the Central Committee of the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine"
Posted text: "'The Martyrs
remain'... young people have placed a picture of Martyr Khaled Nazzal at the
site of the monument that was destroyed by the occupation forces in Jenin in the
early hours today"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which participated in
the first inauguration of the monument, stated that Israel's dismantling of it
constitutes a "crime," which aims at harming "the supreme value of the
'Martyr.'" The Front's statement also said that:
"All the streams of our people and its leading
activists have expressed adherence to the value of the Martyrs and pride in
their heritage and status, as all members of our people, throughout its
generations, are proud of it."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, July 1, 2017]
The Front emphasized that terrorist
"Martyr" Khaled Nazzal, together with "all the fighters for Palestine's freedom
and independence," will "live on forever in the souls of the members of their
people."
In another Facebook post, Fatah even suggested that Israel and
Fatah's rival Hamas are working for the same goal. Hamas apparently changed the
name of a school named after a Fatah "hero" - terrorist Abu Jihad who was
responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis. Fatah sees this as Hamas'
"completion" of Israel's aim to harm the Palestinian "memory":
Text at top of image: "This is
how Hamas is completing the role of the occupation in Gaza, by fighting the
names of the leaders and Martyrs"
Text on left of image: "The
occupation removes the monument in memory of Martyr Khaled Nazzal in
Jenin"
Text on right of image: "Hamas
removes the name of Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir [Abu Jihad] from a school in
Gaza"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
The following are longer excerpts of the
reports on the reactions to Israel's removal of the monument in Jenin glorifying
terrorist who planned murders of 31:
Text and images
posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
 Posted text: "The occupation
destroyed the monument in memory of Martyr (Shahid) Khaled Nazzal (i.e.,
terrorist, responsible for murder of 31) and shot and wounded two children in
Jenin (sic., six Palestinians were wounded while attacking the Israeli forces
removing the monument). The Israeli occupation reminds us every day of [poet]
Mahmoud Darwish's cry: 'We still have not won.' It does not matter how many
times the occupation removes the monument in memory of the Martyr - it is our
obligation to rebuild it."
The posted images show the monument that was removed and a picture of
terrorist Khaled Nazzal.
Text on monument: "Martyr Khaled
Nazzal Square
We must guard the flowers of the Martyrs (quote
from poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish -Ed.)
1948-1986, for free Palestine"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
Khaled Nazzal - Secretary of the
Central Committee of the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine (DFLP),
and commander of its military branch. He was responsible for terrorists taking
school children as hostages and murdering 22 children and 4 adults in Ma'alot
(May 15, 1974), the murder of 4 hostages in an apartment building in Beit Shean
(Nov. 11, 1974), and a shooting and grenade attack in central Jerusalem in which
1 was murdered and 47 others were wounded (April 2,
1984).
Mahmoud Darwish is considered the
Palestinian national poet. He published over 30 volumes of poetry and 8 books of
prose and has won numerous awards. He joined the Israeli Communist Party in 1961
and the terrorist organization PLO in 1973, becoming a member of the PLO
Executive Committee in 1987. He left the PLO in 1993 because it signed the Oslo
Accords with Israel.
Many in Israel see his poetry as inciting hate
and violence. One poem he wrote in 1988 at the height of the Palestinian wave of
violence and terror against Israel (the first Intifada, 1987-1993) calls to
Israelis: "Take your portion of our blood - and be gone... Live wherever you
like, but do not live among us... Die wherever you like, but do not die among
us... Leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds,
everything, and leave the memories of memory."
He also wrote
"Silence for the Sake of Gaza" in 1973, which many see as glorifying terror:
"She wraps explosives around her waist and blows herself up. It is not a death,
and not a suicide. It is Gaza's way of declaring she is worthy of
life."
His defenders have claimed that Israel misinterprets his
poetry and that he sought reconciliation with Israel. One wrote in 2017:
"Darwish arranged meetings between Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals, and
published essays on their discussions. He was optimistic that, through mutual
understanding, the two sides could eventually reconcile."
[https://www.bcalnoor.org/]
Text and picture posted on the
official Fatah Facebook page
The picture (appears above -Ed.) shows
a sign placed at "Khaled Nazzal Square" in Jenin, named after a terrorist
responsible for the murder of 31. At the top of the sign is terrorist Nazzal's
picture, with the text "Martyr Khaled Nazzal June 9, 1986" underneath it. The
logo of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine appears on each
side of Nazzal's picture, containing a star featuring the map of "Palestine"
that presents all of Israel as "Palestine," and above it the text: "The
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine."
Text on sign: "Martyr
(Shahid) comrade Khaled Nazzal Square (i.e., terrorist, responsible for
murder of 31)
Member of the Central Committee of the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine"
Posted text: "'The Martyrs
remain'... young people have placed a picture of Martyr Khaled Nazzal at the
site of the monument that was destroyed by the occupation forces in Jenin in the
early hours today [June 30, 2017]"
[Official Fatah
Facebook page, June 30, 2017]
Headline: "Three civilians were shot and wounded
in Jenin and Kafr Qaddum, the occupation removed the Martyr Khaled Nazzal
monument"
"Two young people were shot and wounded early
yesterday morning [June 30, 2017] during clashes between [Palestinian] civilians
and [Israeli] occupation forces at the western entrance of Jenin.
The occupation forces invaded the city early
yesterday morning and destroyed the monument in memory of Martyr
(Shahid) Khaled Nazzal (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 31)
- who in the past was a member of the central committee of the Democratic Front
[for the Liberation of Palestine] - that was established on Haifa Street at the
western entrance to Jenin."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, July 1, 2017]
Pictures from an article
published by the independent Palestinian news agency Donia Al-Watan on June 30,
2017, show the site of the removed monument, as well as a notice in Arabic left
by the Israeli army.
Text on notice: "This monument
was removed due to the incitement and memorialization of terrorist Khaled
Nazzal, who was responsible for terror attacks against citizens of the State of
Israel"
Headline: "The Democratic Front condemns the
removal of the monument in memory of Martyr Khaled Nazzal in the center of Jenin
by the occupation"
"The Democratic Front [for the Liberation of
Palestine] condemned the crime committed by the occupation forces early
yesterday morning (Friday) [June 30, 2017], when they removed the Martyr
(Shahid) Khaled Nazzal monument (i.e., terrorist, responsible for
murder of 31) in the center of Jenin, following the wild incitement campaign
that [Israeli] occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led
personally.
The Front said in a statement published by its
Jenin district branch that the occupation forces' actions constitute a... crime
whose purpose is to appropriate the Palestinian national memory and harm the
supreme value of the 'Martyr,' which is rooted in the experience of our people
and its national culture...
In its statement, the Front promised that our
people and its living forces will thwart these attempts, as has been proven by
the popular stand throughout the homeland, the diaspora, and the foreign lands,
by which all the streams of our people and its leading activists have expressed
adherence to the value of the Martyrs and pride in their heritage and status, as
all members of our people, throughout its generations, are proud of
it.
[The Front] emphasized that Khaled Nazzal, a
member of its path, and all of the fighters for Palestine's freedom and
independence, will live on forever in the souls of the members of their
people..."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, July 1, 2017]
Text and picture posted on the
official Fatah Facebook page
Posted text: "#Share_and_spread
This is how Hamas is completing the occupation's
role in Gaza, by fighting the names of the leaders and Martyrs
(Shahids)
Hamas changed the name of Khalil Al-Wazir [Abu
Jihad] High School in Gaza (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125) to
Hassan Al-Harazin School (apparently a private donor to the school -Ed.), as
part of its chain of ongoing attacks on the schools bearing the names of the
fighters and Martyrs of the Palestinian revolution (i.e., from Fatah).
Memory is the main enemy of Israel and
Hamas."
The left of the image (appears in report above -Ed.) shows the site of
"the Martyr Khaled Nazzal monument" in Jenin - which was erected in honor of a
terrorist responsible for the murder of 31 and later removed by the Israeli army
- overlaid with a picture of a monument established in Ramallah after the Jenin
monument was removed. The right of the image shows the Khalil Al-Wazir High
School, overlaid with a picture of terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir (Abu
Jihad).
Text at top of image: "This is
how Hamas is completing the role of the occupation in Gaza, by fighting the
names of the leaders and Martyrs"
Text on left of image: "The
occupation removes the monument in memory of Martyr Khaled Nazzal in
Jenin"
Text on right of image: "Hamas
removes the name of Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir [Abu Jihad] from a school in
Gaza"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, June
30, 2017]
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a
founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror
organization's military wing and planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks
murdering 125 Israelis. This included the most lethal in Israeli history, the
hijacking of a bus and murdering of 37 civilians, 12 of them
children.
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