PA and Fatah honor terrorists with huge billboard, including one serving 10 life sentences
PA and Fatah honor terrorists with huge billboard,
including one serving 10 life sentences
for recruiting suicide bomber who murdered 8
"support, stand, and aid for the fighting prisoners who fought and sacrificed for Palestine"
- Since the day of his arrest, the PA has paid terrorist Izz Al-Din Hamamrah a monthly salary, which by now totals $155,909 (540,600 shekels)
- Terrorist Hamamrah was a member of the PA's Security Services
The Palestinian Authority and Abbas' Fatah have come up with yet a new way to honor terrorist prisoners. A huge billboard with numerous photos of so-called "fighting prisoners" was inaugurated in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem.
PA TV News said the billboard immortalizes 17 prisoners who are serving long sentences. Among the prisoners on the billboard is terrorist Izz Al-Din Hamamrah, a member of the PA's Security Services, who is serving 10 life sentences for recruiting a suicide bomber who murdered 8.
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The billboard was inaugurated at an event in which the head of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake participated as well as the prisoners' parents, local school students, and a scouts group. Karake stated that the billboard is a sign of the "support for the prisoners":
Palestinian Media Watch has reported on the PA's policy of teaching students to honor terrorists by naming schools after them. PA scouts also glorified terrorists when they held a course for scout leaders named after a murderer of 3.
The new billboard consists of two parts with photos of the prisoners. Black text on upper part of billboard lists organizations that organized and sponsored the event:
"The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs
The background of the bottom part features the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of "Palestine" that presents all of Israel as "Palestine" together with the PA areas.
Izz Al-Din Khaled Hamamrah - Palestinian terrorist and Tanzim (Fatah terror faction), also a member of the PA security services serving as a legal advisor, who recruited 23-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber Muhammad Za'oul, who carried out the suicide bombing of bus no. 14 in Jerusalem on Feb. 22, 2004, in which 8 were murdered and dozens injured. Hamamrah was also involved in shooting attacks in the area of Bethlehem at the end of 2003 and in February 2004. Hamamrah is serving 10 life sentences.
PMW has been unable to ascertain the crimes of the other prisoners.