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Fatah: Israel committing “increasing ‎invasions of the blessed Al-Aqsa”, ‎and regional turmoil is part of “plan that began ‎with the Nakba of Palestine in 1948”‎

Photo and text posted on the official ‎Facebook page of the Fatah Movement on ‎Jan. 25, 2016‎:
Posted text: "In the name of Allah the All ‎Merciful, an important notice from the Fatah ‎movement in the West Bank
‎[Allah] the Almighty said: 'And We wanted ‎to confer favor upon those who were ‎oppressed in the land and make them ‎leaders and make them inheritors' (Sura ‎‎28:5, Sahih International), great truth of ‎God
An important notice from the secretaries of ‎the Fatah branches in the West Bank
O masses of our mighty people, masses of ‎our proud people
With the increasing pace of the Zionist ‎crimes, the rise in the number of Martyrs ‎‎(Shahids), the continuation of the ‎campaigns of destruction, executions, ‎invasions, and detentions, which have ‎injured hundreds of our people, and with ‎the increase in attacks and the crazy ‎attempts of the imperialist gangs (i.e., term ‎used to refer to “settlers”) to repeat the crime ‎of the era – the crime of burning the ‎Dawabsheh family in Duma - our ‎Palestinian people has amazingly carried ‎out all kinds of confrontations and clashes ‎with this unjust occupation…‎
O masses of our heroic people,‎
in light of the big plot afflicting the region ‎and our great Arab homeland, part of the ‎systematic and deliberate plan that began ‎with the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” ‎Palestinian term for the establishment of ‎the State of Israel) of Palestine in 1948, our ‎Palestinian people continues its victorious ‎path, in a heroic epic and the longest ‎revolution known to history, during which it ‎has sacrificed thousands of Martyrs and ‎hundreds of thousands of prisoners on the ‎way to freedom and independence, the ‎continuing Palestinian revolution called ‎‎‘the impossible revolution,’ which confronts ‎and goes against the darkest, most criminal ‎occupation.‎
In view of the omens, civil wars, and ‎destruction afflicting the region, and in view ‎of the increasing invasions of the blessed ‎Al-Aqsa Mosque in a desperate attempt ‎to force its division by times and areas, ‎and to impose a suffocating siege on the ‎Old City of Jerusalem, the speech of ‎President Mahmoud Abbas on Sept. 30 of ‎last year [2015] comes to reemphasize the ‎basic Palestinian principles, to place full ‎responsibility on the occupation, as the ‎occupying authority, and to open a new ‎phase [of the Palestinian struggle], which is ‎expressed in the implementation of the ‎‎[Fatah] Central Committee's decisions (i.e., ‎a reduction of security coordination with ‎Israel)‎ ‎ and the revival of the popular ‎resistance in the field. This is [taking place] ‎simultaneously with a diplomatic offensive, ‎and political confrontation in all ‎international arenas and UN organizations, ‎while fortifying the internal front, investing ‎further efforts in national unity and ending ‎the consequences of the vile takeover (i.e., ‎Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip), and the ‎reunification of the masses of our people ‎under the flag and plan of the PLO, the ‎legal representative of our Palestinian ‎people everywhere it is found.‎
O our mighty people, ‎
the historic speech of the president at the ‎UN [on Sept. 30, 2015] was a turning ‎point and a new dawn, which have been ‎expressed by the popular uprising ‎‎‘Jerusalem's rage,' which began in ‎Jerusalem the capital, and from there ‎spread to Hebron and the homeland's ‎districts, with stunning heroic ‎performances, which has returned the ‎shine and status to the national cause. This ‎is because the crimes of the occupation ‎have not succeed in harming or deterring it ‎‎[the Palestinian national cause], and what ‎is even more, the popular uprising has ‎succeeded in sowing terror and causing ‎the loss of personal security among the ‎imperialists, and now the streets of ‎Jerusalem and the Palestinian West Bank ‎have become points of friction and constant ‎conflict…‎
Praise to the Martyrs, freedom for the ‎prisoners, and primarily Marwan Barghouti ‎‎(i.e., terrorist serving 5 life sentences for ‎orchestrating attacks that killed 5 Israelis), ‎and victory and honor to our people
The revolution is until victory, until victory, ‎until victory
Secretaries of the Fatah branches in the ‎Palestinian West Bank."

Photo shows masked woman with a ‎headband of Fatah’s committee at ‎Palestinian universities, the “Sisters of ‎Dalal” – a reference to terrorist Dalal ‎Mughrabi who led the most lethal terror ‎attack in Israel’s history, known as the ‎Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she ‎and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on ‎Israel's Coastal Highway, killing 37 ‎civilians, 12 of them children, and ‎wounding over 70.‎

Duma arson attack - On July 31, 2015, two ‎Palestinian houses in the West Bank village ‎of Duma were ‎set afire by Molotov cocktails ‎thrown through their windows. 18-month-old ‎Ali Dawabsheh was killed in ‎this attack, his ‎father, Saad Dawabsheh and mother, ‎Reham Dawabsheh, died of their injuries ‎later. The ‎only survivor of the attack was the ‎couple’s other son, 4 year-old Ahmad, who ‎suffered burns on 60% of ‎his body and is ‎being treated in Israel. Israeli leaders and ‎citizens from all sectors of society ‎condemned ‎this attack, and Israeli Prime ‎Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told PA ‎Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that all ‎Israelis ‎were disgusted by the crime, adding, “We ‎will not countenance terrorism of any kind.” ‎He ordered ‎the security forces "to use all ‎means at their disposal to apprehend the ‎murderers and bring them to ‎justice ‎forthwith." ‎
Israeli Police is treating the attack as a ‎nationalistic crime carried out by Jewish ‎extremists in revenge for Palestinian terror ‎attacks. In ‎early December 2015, Israeli ‎police arrested several Jewish extremists ‎who were believed to have been ‎involved in ‎the attack, and in January 2016, Israel ‎indicted 21-year-old Amiram Ben Uliel, a ‎member of the ‎radical Jewish group “Hilltop ‎Youth,” with three counts of murder, ‎attempted murder, arson and ‎conspiracy to ‎commit a nationalistically-motivated ‎crime. Ben Uliel confessed to police that he ‎carried out the attack in revenge for the ‎killing of Malachi Rosenfeld, an Israeli who ‎was shot and killed in a terror attack in the ‎West Bank. A minor whose name remains ‎under a police ‎gag order was also charged.‎

‎"Division according to areas and times" ‎refers to a proposed law (May 2013) being ‎reviewed in Israeli Parliament that would ‎allow for both Jews and Muslims to pray on ‎the Temple Mount. The law seeks to ‎designate separate prayer times and areas ‎of the site for Muslims and Jews.‎ Israeli PM Netanyahu has stated on many ‎occasions that the Israeli government has ‎no intention of ‎changing the status quo on ‎the Temple Mount.‎

Marwan Barghouti - serving 5 life ‎sentences for orchestrating three shooting ‎attacks that killed 5 people: one in ‎Jerusalem (June 12, 2001, 1 killed), another ‎in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, ‎‎2002, 1 killed), and one in Tel Aviv (March ‎‎5, 2002, 3 killed). When arrested in 2002, he ‎headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). ‎After he was convicted and imprisoned, he ‎was re-elected member of the Palestinian ‎Authority parliament.‎‎

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