The three men Fatah proudly endorses: Arafat, Abbas, and Abu Jihad, the terrorist who murdered 125 people

Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture

The image shows terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad,” (left) who was responsible for the murder of 125 people, shaking hands with former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. On the far right is PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Posted text: “[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, [former PLO Chairman and PA President] leader Yasser Arafat, and commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’.”

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 also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the Coastal Road attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and 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.