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Fatah and PA officials welcome and glorify newly released terrorists

Headline: “The occupation released young prisoners Farah and Al-Zaatari”
     “The Israeli occupation authorities yesterday [Nov. 29, 2018] released the two youth Shadi Farah and Ahmed Al-Zaatari (i.e., terrorists, arrested for planning a stabbing attack), age 15, after they finished serving a 3-year prison sentence.
At the press conference that was held opposite the Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat Monument in Ramallah after their release… Fatah Movement [Deputy] Chairman and [Fatah] Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul said: ‘We welcome our sons today, the children who have become men due to the difficult experience they underwent inside the occupation’s prisons.’ … The occupation authorities arrested the youths Farah and Al-Zaatari on D ec. 29, 2015 (sic., Dec. 12, 2015), on the pretext of an attempt to carry out a stabbing attack.”

The article includes a picture from the press conference following Shadi Farah and Ahmed Al-Zaatari’s release. From left to right are PLO Executive Committee member and Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad, Shadi Farah, Ahmed Al-Zaatari, Fatah Movement Deputy Chairman and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul, and Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam.


Shadi Farah and Ahmed Al-Zaatari – 12-year-old Palestinian children arrested with a knife in their possession that they planned to use for a terror attack in Jerusalem on Dec. 12, 2015. Farah and Al-Zaatari served 3 years and were released on Nov. 29, 2018.

Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah, former chairman of the PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.

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