PA is official patron for tournament with teams named after arch-terrorists
“The Jalazone Refugee Camp Martyrs’ (Shahids) Internal Football Tournament, [which was held] under the patronage of District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh Laila Ghannam, ended two days ago. [The tournament] was organized, for the second consecutive year, by the Taqat Shababiya organization in the refugee camp…
Nine teams, both from the camp and from outside it, participated in the tournament…The camp’s Martyr teams advanced to the second round: the Martyr Abu Iyad team, the Martyr Abu Jihad team and the Martyr Yasser Arafat team.”
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - A founder of Fatah and head of the terror organization Black September. Attacks he planned included the murder of two American diplomats (March 1, 1973), as well as the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972).
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks. These attacks, which killed a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Nine teams, both from the camp and from outside it, participated in the tournament…The camp’s Martyr teams advanced to the second round: the Martyr Abu Iyad team, the Martyr Abu Jihad team and the Martyr Yasser Arafat team.”
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - A founder of Fatah and head of the terror organization Black September. Attacks he planned included the murder of two American diplomats (March 1, 1973), as well as the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972).
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks. These attacks, which killed a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.