Saidam accuses Israel of war crimes that reach the level of “genocide”

Official PA TV, interview with Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam on 2023 Operation Home and Garden – see note below

Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam: “This is a clear war crime that reaches the level of genocide, for when they harm people, trees, and stones in this manner, as we saw in the report of your [official PA TV] reporter, it is clear that the scope of the desire for revenge and hate is very great, and the fascist Israeli government is feeding the escalation of the acts of hatred against all the Palestinians.”

[Official PA TV, July 5, 2023]

Sabri Saidam also serves as Fatah Revolutionary Council Deputy Secretary and is the former PA Minister of Education and Higher Education.

2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested. During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.