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Fatah official calls for expansion of "popular resistance" during visit to family of terrorist shooter

Headline: “Al-Ahmad calls for an expansion of the popular resistance in order to support the prisoners”
"Chairman of Fatah’s parliamentary faction and Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad called to expand the popular resistance in order to support the prisoners. He emphasized that a peace agreement with Israel will not be signed until the emptying of the prisons and release of all of the prisoners.
Al-Ahmad said in a speech that he gave… during a condolence visit to the family of Martyr (Shahid) Muhammad Turkeman… yesterday evening [Dec. 25, 2016] that the issue of the prisoners is included in the list of priorities and national principles of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and the leadership.”

Muhammad Turkeman – Palestinian Authority police officer who carried out a shooting attack on Oct. 31, 2016, at a checkpoint near Beit El, at the entrance to Ramallah. Using a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Turkeman shot and wounded 3 Israeli soldiers before being shot and killed by other Israeli soldiers.

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