Fatah official promotes violence with song: “A rifle will aim, fire, and scatter with its bullets, it will avenge Jenin”
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi posted an edited video of him speaking during a visit to Jenin during Israel’s 2023 Operation Home and Garden, which targeted the terror infrastructure in the city – see note below.
Text on screen: “A visit to proud Jenin and its heroic [refugee] camp, on the second day of blessed Eid Al-Adha, to be among our people, the parents of the Martyrs, to convey a message of loyalty.”
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “It’s an honor for me to be in the Jenin [refugee] camp today [July 3, 2023]. Our [refugee] camps, villages, and cities are always at the height of struggle, the height of giving, always at the height of positioning the leaders and positioning young fighters who are sacrificing their souls and their freedom for Palestine, until we establish our Palestinian state on our Palestinian land, and its capital is Jerusalem.”
A song is played while photos of Tirawi meeting people in Jenin are shown:
Lyrics: “O Jenin, gird your strength
Your rifle swears not to deviate [from its target]
Push on the robber (i.e., Israel) like a sword
O Jenin, city of heroism
Even if [the enemy] imposes a lockdown on all the neighborhoods, and there are aerial attacks on us
[In Jenin] you will only find resolve, O symbol of manliness
A rifle will aim, fire, and scatter
With its bullets it will thunder, it will avenge Jenin
O Jenin, gird your strength
Your rifle swears not to deviate [from its target]
Push on the robber like a sword
O Jenin, city of heroism
O voice of the heroes, O roar of the men
O battlefield
Jenin will erase you”
[Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, Facebook page, July 3, 2023]
Tawfiq Tirawi also serves as Fatah Commissioner of Popular Organizations.
He posted this edited video of him speaking during a visit to Jenin during Israel’s 2023 Operation Home and Garden:
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.