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Fatah honors terrorists, among them 5 killers serving life sentences

/>PA TV newsreader: “The Prisoners’ and Released Prisoners’ Commission in the southern districts (i.e., the Gaza Strip) honored over 15 families of prisoners from the city of Khan Yunis who sacrificed their freedom.….”
PA TV reporter: “The Fatah Movement’s Prisoners’ and Released Prisoners’ Commission in the southern districts honored 16 prisoners’ families. This number is only a small fraction of the prisoners who sacrificed for their homeland and their people.”
Representative of the Prisoners’ and Released Prisoners’ Commission in the southern districts, Tayseer Al-Burdini: “[This is an expression of] appreciation of 17 prisoners from western Khan Yunis. Foremost among them is brother and friend Saleh Al-Sha’er whom I referred to as a friend and fighter and who was with me when we were in the Fatah Hawks.”
Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Muhammad Al-Nahhal: “This is a message to our brave prisoners who are in the occupation’s prisons. We tell them: ‘Your cause is a [matter of] Palestinian national consensus. You are this nation’s conscience. You are not alone in the occupation’s prisons.’”
Caption on poster with photos, names, and prison sentences of the prisoners: “The Fatah Movement, southern Khan Yunis – Prisoners’ and Released Prisoners’ Department, the heroic prisoners in western Khan Yunis.”
Of the prisoners glorified on the poster, five are serving life sentences: Saleh Al-Sha’er, Salameh AbdallahMuslih, Midhat Faiz Barbakh, Atiyyeh Salem Abu Musa, and Tareq Khaled Al-Tabsh.
PA TV reporter: “The prisoners’ cause will remain our people’s bleeding wound and the compass in front of us until all prisoners return in good health to their homes and families.”

Notes: Saleh Al-Sha’er - Serving a life sentence for stabbing his Israeli employer Yeshayahu Deutsch to death on March 3, 1993.
Salameh Abdallah Muslih – Serving a life sentence for the murder of Reuven David on May 20, 1991.
Midhat Faiz Barbakh – Serving a life sentence for stabbing his Israeli employer, Moshe Becker, to death on Jan. 21, 1994.
Atiyyeh Salem Abu Musa – Serving a life sentence. He and accomplice Hazem Shbair beat Isaac Rotenberg to death with an axe.
Tareq Khaled Al-Tabsh – Serving a life sentence for his part in the Ramallah lynch – the October 2000 lynching of two Israeli reservists.

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