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University tournament names teams after bomb-maker, hijacker, and terror leaders

Headline: “The Martyr Younes Jahjouh team wins the championship at the Al-Quds University Institute of Modern Media”
     “The head of the Institute of Modern Media’s Administrative Body at Al-Quds University Ghassan Nimr, and the head of the Higher Follow-up Commission for Prisoner Affairs Amin Shuman crowned the Martyr (Shahid) Younes Jahjouh team champions of the football tournament named after Martyr Jahjouh that the Institute held on the El-Bireh Al-Jadida field, with eight Institute teams participating…”
The article gives the scores for the games that took place during the tournament. The following teams were named after terrorists: Yahya Ayyash, Dalal Mughrabi, Ghassan Kanafani, Mu’tasim Adwan, Younes Jahjouh, Amer Nassar, Khaldoun Shouman.
“At the end of the tournament, the head of Al-Quds University’s Institute of Modern Media’s Administrative Body, Ghassan Nimr, the head of the High Commission for Prisoner Affairs, Amin Shuman, and relatives of Martyr Younes Jahjouh, crowned the winning teams. All students of the Institute of Modern Media attended the tournament and cheered their teams on in a very civilized manner.”

Note: Yahya Ayyash was the first Hamas suicide bomb builder and planner, known as "the Engineer." He is considered the founder of Palestinian suicide terror, and was behind attacks killing dozens of Israelis and injuring hundreds.
Dalal Mughrabi - led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Ghassan Kanafani – Was a writer and a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Mu’tasim Adwan – was killed in 2011 in clashes between Palestinian residents and an Israeli army force that had come to arrest suspects in the Qalandyia refugee camp.
Amer Nassar – was killed by the Israeli army after throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military post.
Younes Jahjouh – was killed in 2013 in clashes between residents and an Israeli military police force that had come to arrest suspects in the Qalandyia refugee camp.
Amer Nawfal – senior DFLP official who died in Syria in 2007.
Khaldoun Shouman – member of the Palestinian Security Forces who was killed during an exchange of fire with the Israeli army, after he mistakenly thought the soldiers were Hamas operatives and opened fire at them.

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