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"Fatah Army" summer camp trains over 200 young boys and girls in military uniform, with the participation of PA Security Forces armed with assault rifles
Goal of camp is "to prepare a national generation that will… continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners (i.e., terrorists)," according to Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary-General Muhammad Hamdan

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Indoctrinating child soldiers is child abuse and a breach of humanitarian law

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[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 4, 2025]

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While children worldwide are participating in sports and leisure activities at summer camps with friends, children living under the Palestinian Authority are in a "Fatah Army" summer camp with armed members of the PA Security Services, being taught to be terrorists.

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This goal was explicitly declared during the camp's closing ceremony, when the children were told the camp's goal was to create a generation that will "continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners" – in other words, the path of killed and imprisoned terrorists:

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Posted text: "The Fatah Nablus Branch concluded the activities of the ‘Fatah Army' summer camp, which lasted three days and included more than two hundred male and female campers…
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Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary-General Muhammad Hamdan emphasized that the ‘Fatah Army' camp is part of the effort to prepare a national generation that will carry the message, adhere to the basic principles of its people, and continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners (i.e., terrorists) towards freedom and independence."
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[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 4, 2025]
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Pictures from the "Fatah Army" summer camp accompanied the post, showing boys and girls wearing military uniforms while participating in the camp activities. Significantly, the pictures show that PA Security Forces (PASF) personnel also took part in the camp. In one picture a female PASF member in full uniform is seen marching with the young campers. In another, three male PASF members wearing flak jackets and holding Kalashnikov assault rifles are sitting with the children:

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As Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed in a detailed report, the PASF is deeply and fundamentally involved in terrorism. Likewise, Fatah officials have bragged that most of the dead terrorists in recent years were from the PASF or Fatah. In this context it is clear why Fatah specifically invited them to teach the children to "continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners."

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It goes without saying that the indoctrination of child soldiers is cynical child abuse and a severe breach of international humanitarian law.

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But that has not stopped Fatah – the ruling party of the PA that is supported by international donors – from running such indoctrination camps for child soldiers in recent years.

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Young boys performed drills with assault rifles in a 2023 summer camp run by Fatah and the PASF. At another Fatah camp that same year, boys were taught to handle and disassemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, and received close combat training.

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[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Aug. 3, 2023]

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PASF members let hundreds of children pose with their assault rifles at a Fatah camp the year prior. And another joint Fatah-PASF summer camp in 2022 gave children weapons training so as to teach them to fight the Israelis – "the sons of dogs," as a Fatah representative termed them.

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These summer camps are part of a large-scale PA and Fatah strategy of deep indoctrination, aiming to turn Palestinian children into child soldiers. PMW exposed this indoctrination in detail in its 2022 Special Report for UN World Children's Day.

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The indoctrination has continued unchecked, as seen when Fatah had a girl chant a poem at an event this January celebrating the 60^th anniversary of its first terror attack. The girl called for children to turn their seemingly innocent toys and possessions, such as bicycles, ribbons, and baby bottles into weapons against Israel:

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Girl: "Students of the Gaza Strip, teach us a bit of what you know, for we have forgotten. Teach us how to be men, for we have men who have turned into dough. Teach us how the stone becomes a precious diamond in the hands of the children. How the child's bicycle turns into a mine and the silk ribbon turns into an ambush. How the spout of the baby bottle, when placed under arrest, turns into a knife."
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[Official PA TV, Jan. 5, 2025]
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Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: The Oct. 7 war "is the Palestinian holocaust, and this is the winning card"
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: "The whole world has begun to act against Israel... Who [would have] imagined... that Israel is now accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing?"
Hamas seeks to increase number of dead Gazans and steals aid to create "starvation" narrative against Israel, and PA joins in selling false victimhood to the world

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The Palestinian leadership is keenly aware that the strongest weapon in their arsenal against Israel in the Oct. 7 war is false victimhood, and that their challenge is to effectively play this "Palestinian holocaust Card "– "the winning card," as a senior Fatah official recently called it.

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Both Hamas and the PA play a key role in this dirty tactic. Hamas actively seeks to increase the number of dead Gazans in order to "inflame public opinion" against Israel, as was exposed by Fatah TV. It also murders Gazans seeking food so as to maintain its monopoly over the vast quantities of humanitarian aid that it steals, thereby creating a narrative of "starvation." The PA then runs with this manufactured humanitarian crisis and sells this "Palestinian holocaust" to the world as being Israel's fault, in order to delegitimize Israel's defensive war through feigned victimhood.

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One of the top Fatah leaders, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, made this message very explicit on official PA TV when he called to exploit "the Palestinian holocaust... the winning card":

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Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "We the Palestinians, what is happening to us and what has happened to us for two years [in the Gaza war], and in fact it has been happening for 77 years [since Israel's creation] – but today the world is convinced of it. This is the Palestinian holocaust, and this is the winning card that we need to know how to use."
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[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Aug. 5, 2025]
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Rajoub asserted that in the past two years of war the world has become "convinced" of Palestinian victimhood, and he emphasized the need to exploit this. Indeed, the PA has been trying to manipulate anti-Israel bias in various ways, including by pushing lawfare actions against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed these actions that violate American law in a report sent to the US State Department, and in response the US announced sanctions against PLO and PA members.

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Aside from the PA led by Fatah, Hamas itself has been cynically pushing a narrative of victimhood. Hamas, which started the current war with a horrific massacre and continues to hold Israeli hostages in horrific conditions, also recognizes that the world has eagerly gobbled up the demonization against Israel's defensive war in Gaza.

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The Oct. 7 massacre has brought various boons to the Palestinians, according to senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. One of the main results listed by Hamad is the demonization of Israel on the world stage, which has come about through the extensive Palestinian victimhood campaign:

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Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: "The whole world believed that the occupation state (i.e., Israel) is a democratic, beautiful, oppressed, and persecuted state. Today I think that the whole world believes that this mask has fallen from Israel's face. The whole world has begun to act against Israel. The marches and rallies that are now in America, Britain, France, and Germany all speak of genocide. Who [would have] imagined that today occupation state [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] is wanted by the International Criminal Court? And that even its [Israeli Army] Chief of Staff (sic., former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant) is wanted by the ICC? And that Israel is now accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing? All these things have exposed Israel."
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[Al-Jazeera TV Live website, Aug. 2, 2025; Al-Jazeera TV Live, YouTube channel, Aug. 3, 2025]
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In celebrating the so-called achievements of the Oct. 7 massacre, Hamad singled out the false accusations of "genocide and ethnic cleansing." These accusations are part of the Palestinian victimhood narrative – a narrative that has no basis in fact of course, as the population of Gaza has actually grown during the alleged "genocide."

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But according to Hamad, by playing the victim card in the current war, the Palestinians have started the "collapse" of Israel, as he asserted in the same interview:

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Ghazi Hamad: "In this war against the occupation on Oct. 7, the countdown to the collapse of the occupation state began, and I believe it has already entered a stage of collapse."
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[Al-Jazeera TV Live website, Aug. 2, 2025; Al-Jazeera TV Live, YouTube channel, Aug. 3, 2025]
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Given the number of Western states pledging to recognize "Palestine" as a state following Oct. 7, and the arms embargo on Israel recently announced by Germany, it seems the Palestinian strategy of playing the "winning" holocaust card has indeed been working. It remains to be seen if and when the world will stop being a tool of Palestinian terror organizations.

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The following are longer excerpts of the items above and additional information:

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Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: "I want to tell you, look now at [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas. For more than 10 years no one has talked with him about the two-state solution, nor about the one-state solution, and not even about supporting the PA. They only talk about humanitarian aid to the PA. I want to say clearly: The weapons and resistance have sown in the Palestinian land and among the Palestinian people a kind of freedom and a sense of essence and human value. The weapons have also caused great damage to the occupation (i.e., Israel). I tell you now that Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas' invasion and massacre to launch its terror war on Israel; see note below), this strong blow that was dealt to Israel, I believe it brought about three very great historic achievements. First, it brought back the Palestinian cause. Let me just give you an example: Why do all the states now recognize Palestine? Before Oct. 7, was there a state that dared to recognize the State of Palestine? ...Now the results of Oct. 7 are what caused the whole world to open its eyes to the Palestinian cause and to act on it with strength. The Palestinian people deserve a state and yearn for freedom. Secondly, the whole world believed that the occupation state is a democratic, beautiful, oppressed, and persecuted state. Today I think that the whole world believes that this mask has fallen from Israel's face. The whole world has begun to act against Israel. The marches and rallies that are now in America, Britain, France, and Germany all speak of genocide. Who [would have] imagined that today occupation state [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC; see note below -Ed.)? And that even its [Israeli Army] Chief of Staff (sic., former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant) is wanted by the ICC? And that Israel is now accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing? All these things have exposed Israel. Thirdly, I clearly think that those who thought it was difficult to defeat Israel, [see that] today it has become the easiest thing…
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In this war against the occupation on Oct. 7, the countdown to the collapse of the occupation state began, and I believe it has already entered a stage of collapse."
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[Al-Jazeera TV Live website, Aug. 2, 2025; Al-Jazeera TV Live, YouTube channel, Aug. 3, 2025]
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Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel

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Jibril Rajoub

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ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders

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King Salman's "generous act" of inviting terrorist prisoners' families for the Hajj shows that Saudi Arabia has not distanced itself from Palestinian terror
PA Chairman Abbas personally thanked Saudi leadership for the "generous grant"
Terrorists whose families were "honored" include Fatah terrorist prisoners Yusuf Abu Qandil and Karam Hassan, who murdered Israeli civilians

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There has long been speculation about Saudi Arabia normalizing its relations with Israel, as part of US President Donald Trump's "Abraham Accords." However, a new reward by the Saudi king to "honor" Palestinian terrorists' families shows that the Saudi leadership does not reject Palestinian terror, nor those terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians.

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas himself "thanked Saudi Arabia and its leadership for the generous grant they provided this year to 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims from among the families of the Martyrs, the prisoners, and the wounded" [Official PA TV News, June 9, 2025]. The relatives of "Martyrs, prisoners, and wounded" – meaning dead, imprisoned, and wounded terrorists – were flown to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

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This gesture constitutes a sign of "loyalty" to the terrorists, and a commitment to "constant sponsorship and honoring" vis-a-vis their families, as noted by official PA TV:

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Official PA TV reporter: "As part of a generous act from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [Saudi King Salman], a convoy of pilgrims set out today to the Kaaba [in Mecca] from among the families of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners… This initiative expresses the ongoing support of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom for the Palestinian cause, and emphasizes its diligence in easing the suffering of the affected families... out of appreciation for them and loyalty to the Martyrs, with an emphasis on how [the Martyrs'] families will remain a subject of constant sponsorship and honoring."
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[Official PA TV News, May 31, 2025]
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The terrorists whose families Saudi Arabia chose to honor include murderers bent on destroying Israel.

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One of the honored pilgrims featured on official PA TV was Saif Abu Qandil. His brother, Fatah terrorist prisoner Yusuf Abu Qandil, together with an accomplice, shot and murdered Israeli civilian Victor Kreiderman and wounded his wife Emma in 2004. Saif Abu Qandil, who was flown to Mecca together with his sister, thanked Saudi Arabia for the "gesture" [Official PA TV, June 4, 2025].

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Another pilgrim featured on PA TV was the sister of terrorist prisoner Karam Hassan. Hassan was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's terror wing, and oversaw the murder of Israeli civilian Ruth Shua'i in a 2001 drive-by shooting. His sister said:

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The PA has not published a list of the names of the 1000 terrorists whose relatives were flown to Mecca, so PMW cannot determine how many are murderers, beyond the two who were interviewed on PA TV.

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Trump and Israel should make it clear to the Saudi king that honoring terrorist murderers of Jews by rewarding their families is terror glorification and sends a message to Palestinians that Saudi Arabia welcomes Palestinian terror. This message is incompatible with a normalization process with Israel.

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Official PA TV newsreader: "[PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] thanked Saudi Arabia and its leadership for the generous grant they provided this year to 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims from among the families of the Martyrs, the prisoners, and the wounded. This eased their pain caused to them as a result of their imprisonment, wounding, or Martyrdom-death."
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[Official PA TV News, June 9, 2025]
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Official PA TV newsreader: "500 pilgrims from among the families of the Martyrs and prisoners (i.e., terrorists) set out this morning [for Saudi Arabia]."
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Official PA TV reporter: "As part of a generous act from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud], a convoy of pilgrims set out today to the Kaaba [in Mecca] from among the families of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners… This initiative expresses the ongoing support of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom for the Palestinian cause, and emphasizes its diligence in easing the suffering of the affected families and enabling them to perform the commandment of the pilgrimage, out of appreciation for them and loyalty to the Martyrs, with an emphasis on how [the Martyrs'] families will remain a subject of constant sponsorship and honoring."
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Saif Abu Qandil: "I am pilgrim Saif Abu Qandil from Jenin [refugee] camp, the brother of Martyr Fida Abu Qandil and my brother prisoner Yusuf Abu Qandil (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1)... My sister and I came as pilgrims from Jenin to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of a gesture by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud] and his [Saudi] Crown Prince." ...
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Pilgrim: "I am the sister of prisoner Karam Hassan (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 1) from Qalqilya who was sentenced to life... We thank the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince, and thanks to the Saudi people."
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Yusuf Abu Qandil and Habib Abu Abed

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Karam Hassan

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PMW's Itamar Marcus tells Oslo TV about the PA's repeated prayers for the extermination of Jews and why the UN conference to promote Palestinian statehood must not take place

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Two days before Israel launched its war to destroy Iran's nuclear program, PMW Director Itamar Marcus was interviewed by Norwegian Oslo TV. And although the world is focused now on the Israel-Iran war, there will be a day after the war when the world will once again try to impose a terrorist, genocide seeking Palestinian state on Israel. Accordingly, this interview has long-term importance.

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Marcus explained that the Oslo Accords created the PA, which very quickly started its genocidal terror incitement. This became the ideological foundation for the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre and the overwhelming Palestinian support for those atrocities. The danger inherent in the accords was the trigger leading to the establishment of PMW, Marcus explains in the interview.

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"When the Oslo Accords were signed, I realized, as many in Israel realized, that we were inviting terrorists into our midst. There was no reason to believe that Yasser Arafat was no longer a terrorist – and soon afterwards, I established Palestinian Media Watch," said Marcus. "I said the way to find out what they want and what their targets are is by listening to them and following their activities."

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This monitoring activity is necessary because the PA presents itself differently depending on its audience. "There are two worlds: There's the English-language world that they present in Oslo when they want to be accepted," Marcus explained. "And the world that they present to their people is completely different. It's fundamentally hatred of Jews, denying Israel's right to exist as well as promising the destruction of Israel."

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"A lot of people will recognize that the PA doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist, but the PA goes even further: They don't recognize Jews' right to exist. Antisemitism is so fundamental. We have heard five times in recent months from preachers including PA Shari'ah judges on official PA TV (that is controlled by the PA), the following prayer as part of the official sermons on Friday: ‘Count the Jews one by one, kill them one by one, don't leave even one.' This is part of the PA's genocide message." (And two calls for extermination just in the last two weeks, since the interview.)

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Marcus explained that instead of merely promising a the future when all Jews are exterminated, as the PA has been doing since the year 2000, this current message encourages Palestinians to take initiative and kill Jews according to their ability: "Individual Palestinians can kill one Jew, can kill two Jews, and I think that's why the message is focussing now on ‘kill them one by one.' The message to Palestinians is: ‘Don't think you can't help, even you can kill them one by one.'"

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Turning to the Oct. 7 massacre, Marcus noted that many of the victims were themselves Israeli peace activists who had close ties with Gazans. The attack "was a tragic rude awakening for those people who had been deceived by Palestinians whom they had helped."

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Pro-Palestinian countries in the West also have been deceived, according to Marcus. "But in many Western countries, we also see clear self-deception," he added, citing examples of Foreign Ministry officials in Norway and other countries who have excused PA terror-supporting activities that he has personally shown them.

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Following the Oslo Accords, Marcus said the Norwegian leadership should have said, "Okay, we made a mistake. But instead like a gambler who lost by betting on the wrong horse – he just keeps doubling down and betting more and more - and on the same horse. That's what the Norwegians did, most of the other European countries, and some American leaders as well."

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The UN will apparently reschedule an event sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia that was cancelled because of the Israeli-Iran war, and many states have announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state at the event.

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This is despite the fact "that all of the evidence about the PA defines them as a terror organization," said Marcus. "It's surreal, it's Kafkaesque, it makes absolutely no sense. We see self-deception. There must be a lot of hatred of Israel and maybe hatred of Jews right under the surface in a lot of these so-called friendly countries." It certainly is not an action of a rational leadership to see the evidence that the PA is a terror entity and still offer them statehood."

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Marcus recently called on Israel to block PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from leaving Israel until he retracts statements he made in a recently published interview in the official PA daily praising the success of the Oct. 7 massacre and saying Hamas had "important goals."

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Marcus added that the danger of the UN conference is that it could lead to a process at the UN Security Council with worse ramifications, such as recognition of Palestinian statehood and sanctions against Israel. The fact that the US under President Trump will veto the anti-Israel resolutions is important, but no one knows who the next president will be. Marcus stressed that this is why it is important now to expose the PA's blatant terror support and thereby expose the illegitimacy of this international process to reward them with a state.

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\"The [Ottoman] Turks [were here] for 400 years, and they all left, and then the Palestinian people arrived\" – veteran Fatah official and terrorist on PA TV
Statement exposes the lies of Abbas and his top officials claiming 5,000, 6,000, 9,000, and 10,000 years of \"Palestinian history\"

There is an old Jewish expression based on the Talmud (Shabbat 104A) that says: \"A lie has no legs.\" True to the expression, a senior Fatah official – in a surprising moment of clarity on official Palestinian Authority TV – unwittingly exposed the fundamental lie of \"Palestinian history\" in all its legless glory.

Salim Al-Zre'i, a Fatah Revolutionary Council member and associate of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, made the bombshell statement right after saying \"history is a pure driving force.\" The veteran Fatah terrorist, who took part in the 1968 Karameh battle against Israel in Jordan, admitted that \"the Palestinian people arrived\" only after the 400 years of Ottoman occupation of the Land of Israel:

Fatah Revolutionary Council member and veteran terrorist Salim Al-Zre'i: \"The wars will only end when [the Palestinians] will restore [their] rights. The Israelis will not achieve security or peace as long as Palestine is occupied. This is according to the logic of history, and history is a pure driving force...
Believe me, [the Israelis] will necessarily disappear from Palestine and not one of them will remain on this land. The Crusaders were here for 200 years, the [Ottoman] Turks for 400 years, and they all left, and then the Palestinian people arrived.\"
[Official PA TV, At War, May 19, 2025]

The Ottoman Empire's rule over Israel ended in 1917 during World War I. If the Palestinians only arrived after that time according to Al-Zre'i, it follows that he unwittingly acknowledged the historical fact that \"Palestinian peoplehood\" is a modern invention.

This statement of course flies in the face of decades of PA lies. The entire Palestinian narrative is based on a fabricated Palestinian history, claiming an unfounded historical right to the Land of Israel. Accompanying this lie is a denial of Jewish history in Israel, in order to delegitimize the Jewish state. The PA has long usurped Jewish history, such as when former PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh replaced the Jews with Palestinians in recounting the historical enemies of the Jewish people:

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PA PM Muhammad Shtayyeh: \"We are the people of the land and the children of its soil… We have defeated the Hyksos, the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Tatars, and the Pharaohs. We have defeated all the invaders who passed through the land of Palestine. On behalf of the Martyrs we will defeat this hated occupation [Israel] that will leave our land.\"
[Official PA TV Live, Jan. 9, 2022]

A similar usurping of Jewish history was presented in an official PA TV music video broadcast hundreds of times, which showed a woman representing \"the Palestinians\" overcoming the Romans, the Crusaders, and the British, before facing the Jews.

So just how far back does the invented \"Palestinian history\" go? It depends which PA official you ask, and which day of the month you ask them.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' senior advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash claimed \"6,000 years\" of Palestinian history just this April, claiming it predates \"the Hebrews\":

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: \"The Palestinian people's existence has not been cut off, it has not been cut off for the past 6,000 years, since the time of the Canaanites, and even before the Canaanites. We have been in this land even before something known as the Hebrews existed, or even before our lord Abraham arrived in this land.\"
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, April 9, 2025]

The claim of \"6,000 years\" is nothing new for Al-Habbash, who gave the same number in February, adding: \"The Palestinian people is the one that created the civilization and history of this land\" [Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, Feb. 12, 2025]. He evidently lacked the self-awareness to see the irony of saying the Palestinians are \"creating history.\"

However, the figures don't seem to mean much to Al-Habbash, because he has also claimed \"5,000 years\" of Palestinian history:

\"Al-Habbash [said that]… it has been proven that the continuous truth in this land is the Palestinian people, whose Canaanite ancestors lived in it more than 5,000 years ago, and which has continued to live in it without a break until this very day.\"
[WAFA, official PA news agency, March 20, 2023]

So 5,000 years jumped to 6,000 – but why stop there? Abbas himself, in a speech delivered on his behalf in Gaza, claimed no less than 9,000 years of history going back to 7,000 BCE: \"We say that the nation of Palestine upon the land of Canaan had a 7,000-year history BCE\" [Official PA TV, May 14, 2011].

Don't get too comfortable with 9,000 years though, because the Palestinians have already moved on to 10,000 years of fictional history. Fatah's Waed magazine for young children aged 6-15 claimed Palestinians are descendants of a \"Palestinian-Arab-Canaanite\" people who existed \"5,000 years ago,\" or \"perhaps 10,000 years ago\" (Waed, Issue 37, pp. 13 and 22).

This claim of 10,000 years has proven particularly popular with columnists of the official PA daily. Regular columnist Bakr Abu Bakr, who is also a Fatah Revolutionary Council member, wrote: \"There is no doubt about the Arabness of Palestine for the last 10,000 years, as [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas noted in his latest speech in Istanbul\" [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 19, 2017].

Another regular columnist Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul wrote: \"Historical Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian people, and not of any other people, since the first man was there 10,000 years ago, in Jericho, the most ancient city in history\" [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 31, 2016].

Sometimes the PA columnists don't bother with putting a number to their non-existent history. Such was the case of columnist Bassem Barhoum, who claimed Palestinians have \"the longest history\" while throwing in a usurping of Jewish history for good measure:

Headline: \"The Palestinians' connection to their land – the longest history\"
\"For thousands of years, the only permanent thing in the history of Palestine is the fact that the human society that in time received the name ‘the Palestinian people' is the one that has existed for the longest time on the land between the [Jordan] River and the [Mediterranean] Sea. All the invaders who arrived in Palestine – Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and later on Crusaders – all these waves came and went, while the essential population remained connected to the land.\"
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 28, 2024]

But let's be honest, sometimes claiming thousands of years of history or \"the longest history\" just isn't enough to scratch the itch of blatant historical fraud. That's when the PA leaders bring out their ultimate weapon: \"The dawn of history.\"

Abbas himself resorted to this mother of all lies in a 2023 speech he delivered at the UN, no less. As reported by an official PA daily columnist, Abbas said in his speech:

\"The clear and only truth is that we were here on our land since the dawn of history, and we will remain until the end of the world.\"
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 17, 2023]

Former PA PM Shtayyeh also got in on the action, claiming a Palestinian presence \"since the dawn of human history\":

\"Shtayyeh said... that history and all the archaeological artifacts prove that the Palestinians have been holding onto their land since the dawn of human history.
He continued: ‘We are the ones who gave Palestine its name and the land its value and its status. This land is ours. Israel is a colonialist state that was established by colonialists and settlers, and which expanded like every settler colonialism throughout history. We have learned from history that colonialism passes in the end.'\"
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 21, 2023]

And what starts at the top trickles down through the media, as seen when columnist and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar unabashedly wrote: \"The historians have documented for human memory only the land of Palestine and its people who dwells permanently, which has increased in it since the dawn of history\" [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 19, 2021].

The same columnist doubled down on this ahistorical claim, writing:

\"Since the dawn of history and before the construction of Noah's ark, even when a number of branches of our tree broke, our roots remained here.\"
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida website, May 14, 2024]

Given the current preoccupation with Hamas, it should be noted that this ludicrous claim of Palestinian identity since \"the dawn of history\" is in fact a common denominator between the PA and Hamas, just like their common stated goals of destroying Israel.

The 1988 Hamas Charter explicitly states: \"Palestine is the navel of the globe and the crossroad of the continents. Since the dawn of history, it has been the target of expansionists.\" The charter goes on to call for the violent destruction of Israel in no uncertain terms, which is of course the logical outcome of the PA narrative about an invented \"Palestinian history.\"

But as the statement by Fatah official Al-Zre'i quoted above demonstrates, even the Palestinians seem secretly aware that their lie has no legs.

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PLO official visits released terrorists in Cairo, thanks "Egyptian leadership and people for hosting the heroes of the Palestinian people"
Abu Al-Humus also calls on other Arab states "to open the doors of their states to receive and host these heroes"
Different story for civilians: Fatah cartoon mocks Trump for wanting "‘to transfer' the Gazans from their homeland to Jordan and Egypt!"

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Terrorist murderers get to live comfortably in a foreign Arab capital and receive financial rewards, while Gazan civilians must remain in perpetuity in the war zone created by their elected terrorist leaders. That's the latest double standard coming out of the PLO, which praised Egypt for "hosting" newly released terrorists while supporting Egypt's vehement rejection of Gazan civilians seeking to flee the war.

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Director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Raed Abu Al-Humus announced this position during a recent visit to Cairo, where he met with and honored terrorist prisoners who were released and deported to Egypt in an exchange deal for Israeli hostages during Hamas' ongoing Oct. 7 war on Israel.

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During the visit, Abu Al-Humus – himself a released terrorist who served 10 years in prison – thanked Egypt for "hosting" the terrorists, and called on other Arab states to follow suit and "open their doors" to Palestinian terrorists:

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"Abu Al-Humus thanked the Egyptian leadership and people for hosting the heroes of the Palestinian people who were recently released in the exchange process (i.e., terrorists released in exchange deal during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below)... and called on all the Arab brothers to open the doors of their states to receive and host these heroes, who should be honored for defending Palestine and the honor of the Arab and Islamic nations."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, May 6, 2025]
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The gratitude to Egypt for letting Palestinian terrorists live in its capital is ironic, given Egypt's firm and consistent rejection of taking in Gazan civilians, a rejection that has caused horrific suffering to millions and cost the lives of unknown numbers of civilians who are all being used as human shields by Hamas.

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Egypt's rejection has been clearly expressed in two forms.

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The first form is overtly physical, as Egypt has maintained an airtight border with Gaza throughout the war to ensure no Gazans could flee to safety. Back in 2014, Egypt began seriously tightening this border, when it created a massive buffer zone by demolishing over 1,200 Gazan homes, forcibly evicting thousands of Gazans, and creating and flooding moats with seawater Israel National News, Nov. 27, 2015]. Egypt significantly reinforced the border wall in February 2024, four months into the war, in order to block Gazans from fleeing, as was revealed by satellite imagery [CNN, Feb. 15, 2024].

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The second form of Egyptian rejection is stated policy, as Egypt has repeatedly rejected US President Donald Trump's plan to relocate Gazans into Egypt and other Arab states, so as to end the many years of terror warfare emanating from the Strip. Egypt vowed it would not accept any Gazans fleeing the war in an official statement this March:

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"Egypt has resolutely and definitively rejected any attempt to forcibly or voluntarily displace Palestinian brothers and sisters to any location outside Gaza, especially to Egyptian territories, as this would represent the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and pose an imminent threat to Egypt's national security."
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[Egyptian State Information Service website, March 21, 2025]
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In response to this position, was the PA upset at Egypt's refusal to grant shelter to Palestinians fleeing a war? Or at Egypt's cynical use of them as pawns of "the Palestinian cause" meant to damage Israel? Or perhaps its classification of all the Palestinians as an "imminent threat," a classification stemming from how Hamas is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that is in conflict with the Egyptian military government? No, the PA was not perturbed in the least. After all, the PA itself similarly exploits Palestinians by keeping them in "refugee camps" for decades, even in areas under its control.

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Instead, the PA has joined Egypt's rejection of Trump's plan to relocate the Gazans. A recent example of this was seen in a Fatah cartoon, which ridiculed Trump for defending America's southern border from illegal immigrants while calling on Egypt and Jordan to accept Gazans:

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Headline: "[US President] Trump's policy"
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Caption: "Mexican refugees are not allowed to enter. We want ‘to transfer' the Gazans from their homeland to Jordan and Egypt!"
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[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Jan. 29, 2025]
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Abu Al-Humus did not just thank Egypt for its hospitality to terrorists during his Cairo visit. He also promised to continue financially rewarding Palestinian terrorists from all the terror organizations, including Hamas, with "material rights" as promised by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas:

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"Abu Al-Humus emphasized that we are acting with full faith to serve our prisoners and released [prisoners] and their families. This is based on the public position of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to which the moral and material rights of the prisoners are inviolable, a position he highlighted in his recent speech at the Fatah Revolutionary Council session…
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Abu Al-Humus noted that the commission's policy is clear, and it is being carried out with national and moral responsibility towards all the fighters, regardless of their affiliation and political leanings. The prisoners' cause is a uniting and indivisible issue."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, May 6, 2025]
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This statement is significant, since in addition to being director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Abu Al-Humus is also a member of the board of trustees of the Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution (PNEEI). PNEEI oversees the payment of salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of dead terrorists, a role it has been tasked with ever since the PA cancelled the "Pay-for-Slay" framework on Feb. 10, 2025.

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In the same Cairo visit, Abu Al-Humus called paying the terrorists "a national duty":

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"[Abu Al-Humus] emphasized that serving the prisoners, the released [prisoners], and their families is a national duty, especially [for] those who are in Cairo, and that we must not neglect them."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, May 7, 2025]
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This is not the first time during the ongoing war that Abu Al-Humus has visited terrorists released to Cairo. He was just there in February, when he met with terrorists Ahmed Barghouti and Muhammad Naifeh "Abu Rabia," who were involved in the murder of 12 and 13 people, respectively:

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Text on picture: "Minister of Prisoners Raed Abu Al-Humus with released prisoner commanders Ahmed Barghouti ‘the Frenchman' and Muhammad [Naifeh] ‘Abu Rabia' in Cairo, the capital of Egypt."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, Feb. 18, 2025]
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In additional gestures of PA terror support, Abu Al-Humus has also visited and honored terrorists recently released to the PA areas. Accompanied by senior Fatah terrorist Zakariya Zubeidi – who was himself released during the war – Abu Al-Humus visited the families of Ahmed Barghouti and also of Nael Barghouti, who murdered 1 person with accomplices, as well as other terrorists in Ramallah:

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Posted text: "Raed Abu Al-Humus, Fatah Revolutionary Council member released prisoner Zakariya Zubeidi (i.e., senior Fatah terrorist), a delegation from the [PLO] Commission [of Prisoners' Affairs], and members of the [Ramallah] Fatah branch visited… the family of released and deported prisoner Nael Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 together with accomplices) from Kubar village, …and the family of released and deported prisoner Ahmed Barghouti ‘the Frenchman.'"
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, Feb. 28, 2025]
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Abu Al-Humus is just one of many PA officials who have visited the terrorists released to Cairo, as part of the PA policy of honoring terrorists and promoting terror. Other senior PLO officials similarly visited terrorists in Egypt, as was proudly announced by Palestinian National Council (the legislative body of the PLO) Chairman Rawhi Fattouh:

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The pictures show Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh and Fatah Deputy Chairman and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul meeting with released terrorist prisoners in Egypt. The prisoners are wearing scarves featuring the PA map of "Palestine" that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as "Palestine."

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Posted text: "During the meeting with the prisoners who were deported to Egypt. Regardless of what we say, we will not be able to give them what they deserve. They are the ones loyal to Palestine, the first self-sacrificing fighters who are most devoted to the homeland. With their legendary resolve and their tremendous sacrifice, they have written the greatest epics in the history of the liberation of the peoples."
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[Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh, Facebook page, March 13, 2025]
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While the PA is elated to have terrorists "hosted" by Arab states, where they can live in the lap of luxury off of PA salaries paid via PNEEI, the same clearly cannot be said of Gazan residents, who it insists on keeping in harm's way, at the mercy of Hamas.

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The following are longer excerpts of the items cited above and additional info:

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The picture shows Director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Raed Abu Al-Humus meeting with released terrorist prisoners in Cairo.

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Posted text: "During his meeting with the expelled released prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in Cairo, Abu Al-Humus: ‘The moral and material rights of the prisoners and released [prisoners] are inviolable, as the [PA] president said'
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May 6, 2025
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On Tuesday, Director of the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners' [Affairs] Raed Abu Al-Humus emphasized that we are acting with full faith to serve our prisoners and released [prisoners] and their families. This is based on the public position of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, according to which the moral and material rights of the prisoners are inviolable, a position he highlighted in his recent speech at the Fatah Revolutionary Council session held in Ramallah a few weeks ago.
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Abu Al-Humus said this during his meeting with the released prisoners who were deported to Egypt, where a general meeting was held that included all the released prisoners from the national and Islamic action factions. Afterwards, the director of the commission congratulated them on their release from the chains of prison and detention, and conveyed to them the pride of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership for the great sacrifices they made during their years of struggle in and out of the prisons…
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Abu Al-Humus noted that the commission's policy is clear, and it is being carried out with national and moral responsibility towards all the fighters, regardless of their affiliation and political leanings. The prisoners' cause is a uniting and indivisible issue, and we will maintain this approach and this legacy, which has been instilled through the great sacrifices of the souls, bodies, and lives of the best of our people.
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Abu Al-Humus thanked the Egyptian leadership and people for hosting the heroes of the Palestinian people who were recently released in the exchange process (refers to exchange deal during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below -Ed.)... and called on all the Arab brothers to open the doors of their states to receive and host these heroes, who should be honored for defending Palestine and the honor of the Arab and Islamic nations."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, May 6, 2025]
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The pictures show Director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Raed Abu Al-Humus meeting with released terrorist prisoners in Cairo.

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Posted text: "[Pictures] from the meetings of Director of the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners' [Affairs] Raed Abu Al-Humus and a delegation from the commission that are visiting the Egyptian capital of Cairo with released prisoners (i.e., terrorists), families of prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and staff of the commission's employees in the southern districts (i.e., the Gaza Strip). All the issues related to the prisoners, the released [prisoners] from the Gaza Strip, and their families were discussed in the meetings. The head of the committee (sic., commission) emphasized that serving the prisoners, the released [prisoners], and their families is a national duty, especially [for] those who are in Cairo, and that we must not neglect them. The meetings ended with a meeting with former [PA] Minister of Prisoners' [Affairs] Hisham Abd Al-Rizq."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, May 7, 2025]
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The pictures (appear above in bulletin) show Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Raed Abu Al-Humus visiting released terrorist prisoners and their families.

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Posted text: "[Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Raed] Abu Al-Humus visited several released prisoners in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh district
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Today, Friday, Director of Commission of Prisoners' [Affairs] Raed Abu Al-Humus, Fatah Revolutionary Council member released prisoner Zakariya Zubeidi (i.e., senior Fatah terrorist), a delegation from the commission, and members of the Fatah branch visited several prisoners in the Ramallah district who were recently released after spending long years in the Israeli occupation's prisons (i.e., terrorists released in an exchange deal during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below).
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They and the accompanying delegation visited released prisoner Saad Al-Din Jaber (i.e., terrorist who was serving 35 years – PMW was unable to determine the details of his crimes) from the Al-Amari refugee camp, the family of released and deported prisoner Muhammad Musleh (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 8), …the family of released and deported prisoner Nael Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 together with accomplices) from Kubar village, …and the family of released and deported prisoner Ahmed Barghouti ‘the Frenchman' (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 12)."
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, Feb. 28, 2025]
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Raed Abu Al-Humus

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Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel

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Ahmed Barghouti

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Muhammad Naifeh ‘Abu Rabia’

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Zakariya Zubeidi

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Muhammad Musleh

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Nael, Fakhri, and Omar Barghouti

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Rawhi Fattouh

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Aharon David