Killing Palestinian terrorists in self-defence constitutes "ethnic cleansing", "war" and "deliberate escalation of… Israel's colonialist agenda" according to Fatah

Headline: “Extensive condemnation of the occupation’s crimes in Jenin and Jerusalem”

“The Fatah Movement said that the Israeli colonialist occupation army’s massacre in the Jerusalem and Jenin districts is a natural reflection of the criminal regime that is based on terror, massacres, and spilling the blood of innocent Palestinian citizens (refers to an operation to thwart an imminent attack in which Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed on Sept. 26, 2021 -Ed.)…

Fatah emphasized that the blood of the Martyrs in Jerusalem and Jenin and those who preceded them will not remain without revenge and will constitute a catalyst for developing and expanding our people’s circle of resistance to the occupation wherever it is, and for demanding an accounting from the perpetrators by all means…

The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that the occupation’s massacre in the Jerusalem and Jenin districts constitutes a deliberate escalation in order to reshuffle the deck and the priorities in a manner that will serve Israel’s colonialist agenda.

In a statement, the ministry said that this massacre is a continuation of the ongoing violations, crimes, and summary executions against our people that are reaching the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as an inseparable part of the crime of ethnic cleansing that the consecutive Israeli governments are committing in the framework of their unlimited war against the Palestinian existence.”