PA lies and claims its first terrorist prisoner “killed over 20 Israeli soldiers” – when he actually killed none
Official PA TV program Lexicon of the Revolution, on “the first Palestinian prisoner” Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi, a terrorist who attempted to blow up the Nehusha Water Institute
Official PA TV narrator: “On Jan. 7, 1965, [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat charged [Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi] (i.e., terrorist, attempted to blow up the Nehusha Water Institute) and a group of fighters with blowing up a bridge in the ‘Beit Gavriel’ area next to Hebron… Hijazi carried out the operation leading his group, and during it he killed over 20 Israeli soldiers (sic., no Israelis were killed in the attempted attack, which was thwarted by Israeli border police forces). There was a battle between the fighters and the occupation army, in which Hijazi continued to fight until his ammunition ran out and he fell into captivity. During his imprisonment he was subjected to torture and psychological pressure; he was tried and sentenced to death, and he wore the clothes of someone sentenced to death for more than 45 days. He remained for 4 years and 8 months in solitary confinement two meters in size… In 1971 he was released in a [prisoner] exchange deal between the PLO and Israel.”
[Official PA TV, Lexicon of the Revolution, March 16, 2021]
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.