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The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education is one of the most potent engines of terror within the Palestinian Authority. Through school assemblies, ceremonies, and various other "educational" activities, it targets young, impressionable students, systematically embedding the ideals of terror and Martyrdom from a young age.

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The latest example could be found this week in Jenin, where the PA inaugurated a "Garden of the Martyrs" at a vocational school, explicitly honoring terrorist murderers and leaders of terror organizations. The tree-planting ceremony at this PA school was broadcast on official PA TV and was attended by PA officials as well as uniformed members of its Security Forces.

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The children were told clearly in one of the speeches that the Garden is not just for remembrance, but it is so they will learn to see these terrorists as role models:

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"As we always say, whoever honors the Martyr walks in his path."

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Some of the terrorists honored included:

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On posters from left to right:
\n"Heroic Martyr Walid Obeidi" (responsible for murdering 11 in Tel Aviv)
\n"Heroic Martyr Mustafa Zaytawi" (the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front)
\n"Martyr President Yasser Arafat" (head of PLO and Fatah terror organizations)
\n"Heroic Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa" (head of PFLP terror organization)
\n"Heroic Martyr Khalil al-Wazir" ("Abu Jihad" – responsible for murdering 125)
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Political and educational leaders spoke at the event:

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Insan National Action Association Chairman Fida Turkeman: "In honor of Palestinian Martyr's Day, we inaugurated the Garden of the Martyrs of Palestine here at the Jenin Vocational School…. We are proud of these important and great figures… They sacrificed their lives for Palestine, for the Palestinian cause, for liberation, for the right of return, and for the establishment of the Palestinian state on all national lands, on the occupied Palestinian lands, 1948 and 1967 (i.e., all of Israel)…"
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Member of Fatah Jenin branch Osama Bazzour: "As we always say, whoever honors the Martyr walks in his path. We came to plant an olive tree… in the name of all the Martyrs of the Palestinian revolution and our Martyrs, who are more noble and precious than all of us… We will continue to walk in their path until victory, liberation, and return, Allah willing."
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Ahmad Rashid, school principal: "We hope that this [garden] will bring glory and eternity to the Martyrs of Palestine."
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[Official PA TV, Jan. 5, 2026]
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This is the reality behind PA claims of "reform." While Western leaders, like French President Macron, speak of moderation, coexistence, and educational improvement, the Palestinian Authority, through the very ministry tasked with shaping young minds, continues to use its schools to sanctify terrorism, glorify mass murderers, and instruct the next generation that "walking in the path" of these terrorists is a national and moral duty.

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The Palestinian Authority continues its hypocrisy about killed terrorists. The "successful" terrorists are coined heroic fighters, and the PA names schools, streets, and squares after them. If they are young terrorists and the PA wants the world to condemn Israel, they are repackaged as innocent victims. Such was the case of 16-year-old Islamic Jihad terrorist Muhammad Iyad Abahreh, who was killed after throwing hand grenades at Israeli soldiers near Jenin.

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Islamic Jihad's terror wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, openly lauded Abahreh as one of its fighters. The group proudly described him as a "Jihad fighter," declared that he died as a "Martyr," and vowed to continue armed resistance:

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Headline: "The Al-Quds Brigades accompany to his wedding Martyr Muhammad Abahreh from Jenin"
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"The Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine's military wing, accompanied to his wedding (i.e., a Martyr's funeral is considered his wedding to the 72 Virgins in Paradise in Islam) Martyr Muhammad Iyad Abahreh...
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In a statement on Sunday, [Dec. 14, 2025,] the brigades said that Abahreh is one of the Jihad fighters of the Al-Yamun Brigade and that he ascended to Heaven as a Martyr after he managed to engage with the occupation (i.e., Israeli) soldiers and threw several hand grenades at them during an invasion of the town of Silat Al-Harithiya yesterday evening, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. The brigades emphasized that they will remain steadfast on the path of Jihad and resistance until liberation and return."
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[Safa, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 14, 2025]
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Just one day later, the Palestinian Authority's official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, published a fabricated version of the attack. The "Jihad fighter" became a "young boy," the grenade attack was erased, Islamic Jihad was not mentioned, and Israeli soldiers were accused of killing him while he was "delivering a package." Abahreh is painted as a "loved, diligent, seeker of knowledge" whose "death as a Martyr halted his aspirations" to graduate high school and help his parents.

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Headline: "Young Muhammad Abahreh"
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"Al-Yamun and Silat Al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, were partners in grief two nights ago, Saturday, [Dec. 13, 2025]. The two neighboring towns mourned 16-year-old boy Muhammad Iyad Muhammad Abahreh, who ascended to Heaven in Silat Al-Harithiya, and the occupation (i.e., Israel) seized his body…
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Family sources told Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that young Abahreh is the eldest [child] in the family and that he was looking forward to finishing his experimental matriculation exams, but the occupation's bullets changed the course of his dreams.
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They noted that Muhammad was on his motorcycle on his way to deliver a package in nearby Silat Al-Harithiya, but the occupation soldiers shot him with six bullets and seized his body...
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Al-Yamun High School Principal Radwan Freihat described the loss experienced by the school with Muhammad's death... who was loved, diligent, and a seeker of knowledge. He said that his death as a Martyr halted his aspirations to earn a high [graduation] certificate to help his parents."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 15, 2025]
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The Palestinian Authority routinely rewrites terrorist attacks to demonize Israel and mislead international audiences and donors. It did this just a month ago after terrorists from its own ruling party murdered Aharon Cohen and injured three others. It denies the October 7 atrocities. And it lies to world leaders about condemning terrorism and Antisemitism.

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Hamas' terror is considered a Palestinian national achievement and its successes belong to all Palestinians, proclaimed a member of the PLO's governing body on Palestinian Authority television. While Palestinian Media Watch has been exposing the PA's ongoing open call for cooperation and/or unity with Hamas, this time the Palestinian official went even further:

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Palestinian National Council member and political commentator Hamada Farana: "Whether there are political agreements, contradictions, or disagreements between this faction and another, [Hamas] is part of the Palestinian people. Every achievement of the Resistance [Hamas] is a victory for the Palestinian people on a cumulative, gradual, and multi-stage level. Likewise, every loss [of the Resistance] is a burden for the Palestinian people and will delay or postpone the process of final victory."
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[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals, Nov. 27, 2025]
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Seeing Hamas' victories, including October 7, as a Palestinian achievement is the reason why the PA continues broadcasting a clear message to its people that Hamas is an inseparable and indispensable partner of the Palestinian national movement.

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Just a day after Farana's statement, Mahmoud Abbas' advisor declared the PA's "hands are extended and our hearts are open to… Hamas:"

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Despite all our reservations regarding Hamas' policies, positions, and actions, we still consider it and we will continue to consider it as part of the Palestinian people, and no one can deny it that. Therefore, it has the right to engage in political activity within the framework of Palestinian law and under the umbrella of Palestinian law and as part of the Palestinian internal house. However, Hamas cannot have its own weapons, nor can it have its own rule… Our hands are extended and our hearts are open to rapprochement with Hamas, and as I said before, Hamas is still part of the Palestinian people, despite all its shortcomings."
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[Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, Nov. 28, 2025]
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Habbash is well aware that Hamas, because of its "success" on Oct. 7, remains the most popular Palestinian movement. To counter Hamas' popularity, the PA recently bragged about employing terror against Israel long before Hamas came into existence. Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub recently called upon Egypt to help the PA "bridge gaps" with Hamas.

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Of course, Mahmoud Abbas would prefer that Fatah rule alone, but it is not because Fatah differs ideologically, rather it is because Abbas does not want to share power. Nevertheless, since Hamas is overwhelmingly popular among Palestinians and the PA cannot afford to alienate that base, the two movements operate as partners of convenience: Abbas gains international recognition and funding, and unity with Hamas provides popular legitimacy among the population.

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This is the PA's dual-track strategy, presenting "Hamas-free" governance to the West while preparing to reintegrate Hamas once international support is secured. It continues to make a mockery of President Trump's 20-point plan—which required Hamas to play no role in Gaza's governance—and exposes Mahmoud Abbas' claim at the UN that "Hamas will have no role in governance" as a lie.

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Thus, Palestinian officials or political voices are frequently affirming the same message: The PA and Hamas are partners in the same national project, differing only in structure and timing, not in goals.

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Last week, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, which referred to the possibility that the Palestinian Authority could take control of Gaza once it "has satisfactorily completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including…the Saudi-French proposal."

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French President Emmanuel Macron justified drafting that proposal largely on the basis of a letter written to him in June 2025 by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Macron had posted Abbas' letter on X and framed it as a brave message reflecting change in the Palestinian Authority.

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Macron wrote:

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"President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, charts a course toward a horizon of peace. A condemnation of terrorism, the release of hostages, the demilitarization of Hamas, an end to the war in Gaza, reforms, elections — a just and lasting peace for all in the region. He reaffirms the Palestinian people's commitment to the two-state solution. Two peoples, two states. Security and peace. Concrete and unprecedented commitments that demonstrate a genuine willingness to move forward."
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[Emmanuel Macron, X (Twitter), June 12, 2025]
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At best, Macron is grossly mistaken in his perception of Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, and he has been successfully deceived. At worst, he wishes to recognize a Palestinian state at all costs, knowing that he is the subject of lies.

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Mahmoud Abbas did not say anything new in that letter that he has not said to foreigners for many years. His supposed condemnation of terrorism is meaningless because Abbas and the PA to this very day have never stopped glorifying terrorists. Abbas just recently sent two personal emissaries to Egypt to welcome, embrace, and honor the worst Palestinian terrorists released from prison in exchange for Israeli hostages. These included terrorists sentenced to multiple life sentences for murder, whom Israel insisted on expelling.

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Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh posted on Facebook on October 14, 2025, after he sent Abbas' blessings to the murderers he met in Cairo:

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"At the reception for the released prisoners and their families in Cairo yesterday, I conveyed to them the blessings of [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas…"
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Raed Abu Al-Humus of the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs went even further in his post on Facebook on October 15, 2025:

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"Blessed are you! O brave heroes, I convey to you the blessings of His Honor [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] and the blessings of the Fatah leadership. We are a symbol of the national unity."
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Since Abbas continues to embrace mass murderers, his letter to President Macron, which Macron believed included a condemnation of terrorism, was a lie.

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Furthermore, the wording itself of Abbas' letter, which purports to condemn Hamas' October 7 atrocities, does not represent a genuine condemnation at all. He wrote: "What Hamas did on October 7^thof killing and taking civilians hostage is unacceptable and condemnable and Hamas has to immediately release all hostages and captives."

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If Abbas really condemned October 7, it would not have taken two years of intense international pressure to convince him to issue this mild statement. When other terror attacks had been committed in Europe, Abbas condemned them at length immediately, making front-page headlines throughout the PA's official media. As policy, PA TV, WAFA—the PA's official news agency, and Fatah's channels document every condolence call, meeting, handshake, and hospital visit of Mahmoud Abbas extensively.

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If Abbas wanted Palestinians to know of even the slightest condemnation of Hamas, all the PA's media would have broadcast it around the clock. Instead, it was totally hidden by Abbas from the Palestinians. The "letter to Macron" existed only in foreign media – in English and French reporting – and only for Western consumption. For Palestinians, it never happened and is thus a perfect indicator of total insincerity and worthlessness.

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Why did Abbas hide it? Because even the mild so-called "condemnation" contradicted Abbas' true support for October 7. Just days before this letter, Abbas lauded all that happened on October 7 during the attack, before saying that it had a negative outcome overall because of "the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip, its residents, and the Palestinian cause have suffered":

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"On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sudden attack on the Israeli towns adjacent to the eastern border of the Gaza Strip and on several Israeli army posts and bases. In this attack, it killed 1,200 Israelis, abducted 250 others, and took them as hostages. This attack shook the foundations of the Israeli entity and exposed the [false] claims that Israel disseminated for decades, according to which it has an invincible army. This is because this attack was a glaring failure of this entity's (i.e., Israel's) components, especially the army and the various security forces, which on the one hand failed to discover what Hamas was planning, and on the other hand failed to block the attack, prevent heavy losses on the Israeli side, and prevent the abduction of hostages.
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Israel launched an all-out counterattack on the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas' attack, which has so far led to the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and its near total destruction...
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As important as the goals that Hamas attempted to achieve through this attack may have been, they are not comparable to the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip, its residents, and the Palestinian cause have suffered..."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 1, 2025]
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Abbas' only problem with October 7 was that Israel's response harmed Palestinians. This is consistent with his longstanding dual messaging, as he tells Western governments that he opposes terror, yet he and his top officials tell Palestinian audiences that "resistance" is legitimate and armed struggle is a right.

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If Abbas truly opposed Hamas and October 7, he would show it, but he has done the opposite. The PA continues to glorify terror, celebrates Martyrs, calls for Hamas and Fatah unity in the "struggle against Israel," and insists that armed resistance is legitimate.

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President Donald Trump has gone to great lengths to improve the lives of Palestinians. He has invested tremendous political and financial capital to genuinely attempt to give Palestinians a future of opportunity instead of one of violence and terror. Yet, the Palestinian Authority has responded not with appreciation, but with vicious demonization.

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Jibril Rajoub, one of the PA's most senior officials and among the closest to Mahmoud Abbas, has unleashed multiple hate-filled rants against Trump in recent weeks. Rajoub mocked Trump as frivolous, childish, and unstable— "a puppet" of the "Nazis who control Israel":

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Jibril Rajoub: "An [American] president is in power who speaks in a language of frivolity, childishness, and instability and lack of perspective, even at the minimum level... This [pro-Israel] bias - in my opinion, it is even more than that. He has even become a toy, a puppet in the hands of the group of Nazis who control Israel."
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[Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Sept. 11, 2025]
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The previous week, Rajoub accused "criminal Trump" being a partner to and supporting "neo-Nazi" Israel:

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Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "The American administration gave the green light to this fascist [Israeli] government, the neo-Nazi government, to treat the Palestinian issue as if it were an internal Israeli matter, including the continuation of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the slow annexation of all Palestinian territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This, of course, aligns with the belief of these neo-Nazis who control Israel... Those who are doing in Gaza what the Nazis did in the 1940s will undoubtedly have no problem taking any [further] step... They behave like the neighborhood bully… with the support of the criminal Trump, who is their partner."
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[Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Sept. 2, 2025]
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Rajoub's hate speech is not isolated. Earlier this year, Palestinian Media Watch reported on how Rajoub accused Trump of joining together with "neo-Nazi choir" Israel to "impose their will on the world."

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Rajoub's statements are part of the PA's policy of demonizing the US and its leaders, which has been going on for decades. The PA's disdain for the US has been expressed during both Democratic and Republican administrations. This is in spite of the US being the country giving the greatest amount of funding to the PA since its establishment.

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Jibril Rajoub

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The second most important component of President Trump's plan, after the release of all the Israeli hostages, is that Hamas be dismantled and have no future role in Palestinian society. Mahmoud Abbas has said publicly that he accepts that condition, but Palestinian Media Watch exposed last week with 20 examples that the Palestinian Authority actually seeks to hide Hamas within the PLO to protect it.

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Now, the PA has expressed this explicitly in its official daily, saying that after persuading Hamas to leave for a year or two, it could "look for ways to bring Hamas back to operation":

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"[We] must find a way to prevent its [Hamas'] positions and actions (that the West rejects – ed.) from being exploited again to complete the elimination of the Palestinian issue. It may be necessary to find a way to persuade Hamas to completely leave the arena for a year or two. Later, when things become clearer, we can look for ways to bring Hamas back to operation."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, October 2, 2025]
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The reason the PA keeps seeking to join forces with Hamas is because Hamas remains the popular ideology and party among Palestinians. In fact, it is far more popular—at least 250% more—than the PA's ruling party, Fatah. Therefore, despite the PA's occasional criticism of Hamas, the PA knows that it needs Hamas in order to maintain its political power.

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The PA strategy of accepting "Hamas-free" control over Gaza and then reinstating Hamas a year or two later makes a mockery of President Trump's 20-point plan, which explicitly states that "Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza." The PA's suggestion in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, combined with all the recent statements by top PA officials, again reveals Mahmoud Abbas' promise at the UN that "Hamas will have no role in governance" to be a farce and a lie.

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Certainly, Abbas would love to have his party, Fatah, rule without Hamas—not because it is so different ideologically but because he would prefer not to share power with anyone. However, since Hamas is the popular organization but is shunned by the West since Oct. 7, they will create a partnership of convenience. Abbas will be in charge so that he can receive billions in funding while Hamas will be behind the scenes to give the PA respectability among Palestinians.

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The PA has been saying this for two years. Now, Abbas' official daily repeats the strategy. The PA will hide Hamas for a while so that the West accepts the PA and then it will announce Hamas' return. With this strategy, the Palestinians won't reject the PA and will support the PA's deceptive agreements with the West.

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The Palestinians get it. But will the West recognize this deception before it imposes more tragedies on Israel?

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The International Committee of the Red Cross continues to facilitate rewards to imprisoned Palestinian terrorists, thus playing a central role in providing an "economic incentive" for terrorism.

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Last week, the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs alerted families of Palestinian terrorist prisoners about the need to obtain Red Cross documentation to prove the terrorists' eligibility for Pay-for-Slay salaries.

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What is shocking is that when the terrorists' families approach the Red Cross for the document, the Red Cross knows that the sole purpose of this document is to enable the terrorists to receive their terror rewards. And yet the Red Cross cooperates.

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The following is the announcement that the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs posted on its Facebook page:

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Posted text: "The period of financial aid for the prisoners (i.e., terrorists) whose names appear below ends in March 2025.
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The families of the detainees among them must bring a document from the [Red] Cross or the most recent court session for those who have not been issued a Red Cross document.
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As for the administrative detainees, they must bring the administrative extension together with the [Red] Cross document, if it was issued.
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This is [to be done] by April 5, 2025 at the latest.
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[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, March 20, 2025]
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Over a year ago, Palestinian Media Watch exposed that PLO Prisoners' Affairs Commission Director Qadura Fares said that the Red Cross document is "the document that we established in our [prisoners' law] as a main document [to confirm salary eligibility]" [Official PA TV, January 31, 2024].

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Since the Red Cross plays such a central role for the PA and its terrorists, the Red Cross has great leverage. It could certainly condition its assistance to the PA's terrorist prisoners on having the PA/Hamas permit it to visit the Israeli hostages. This should be a fundamental Red Cross demand and condition to the PA as well as a basic demand by Israel to the Red Cross.

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The Palestinian Authority announced that it is making a payment of monthly "allowances" today. Two similar announcements appeared, as can be seen in the chart below, with the PA Postal Service laconically announcing the payments in general and the "PA employees' salaries" Telegram channel noting that these were the monthly payments for "Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners":

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"Palestine Post announces the beginning of payment of the monetary allowances tomorrow morning, Thursday, March 6, 2025, at the main post offices and through the ATMs... The allowance payments in the Jenin and Tulkarem districts will be made through the nearest payment center in the other nearby districts due to the security situation.

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"Palestine Post: The payment of salaries to the families of the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners begins on Thursday morning [March 6, 2025]. In Jenin and Tulkarem, the payment will be made through the nearest payment center in the adjacent other districts."

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While the Palestine Post announcement did not mention for whom the payments were in particular, the employees' channel understood that these payments were for terrorists—the Pay-for-Slay payments that the PA had said it had stopped. Palestinian Media Watch is certain that these are terror salaries because the PA postal service never made payments for the PA prior to April 2021. The postal service started making payments only after PA banks closed 35,000 terrorist bank accounts, following PMW's warning to the banks that their continued acceptance of the PA terror rewards would constitute a violation of Israeli law and expose them to civil and criminal liability.

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"The decision to pay the prisoners' salaries through the post office branches was… after the banks refused to accept the salary sheets of the prisoners and released prisoners due to the Israeli threats (i.e., PMW's warning letters) to harm and sue them."
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[Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency, April 5, 2021]
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From that first terror payment in April 2021 through August 2024, the PA postal service announcements explicitly said that the payments were for the "Martyrs, prisoners and wounded," just like the current post in the PA employees' salaries' Telegram group. After August 2024, the announcements became more general, possibly due to international condemnation when PMW exposed these continued payments. PMW has verified that the postal service made no announcements of any payments of any kind before April 5, 2021, the month the PA moved the terror salaries from the banks to the postal service. In other words, the only payments the postal service makes are terror rewards, which continued this month.

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The payments made by the PA postal services today are proof that the Pay-for-Slay payments to terrorists continue, despite Mahmoud Abbas' presidential decree changing certain structures, as anticipated by PMW.

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What can you expect from a Fatah leader who celebrated October 7 because it "made our heads touch the clouds"?

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First, Hamas murdered Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas as well as many other Israeli hostages. Then, it tried to trick Israel by not returning Shiri's body, proving that Israel must do careful forensic examinations on all bodies.

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Now, the terror-supporting Fatah leader is complaining that those forensic checks, necessary to confirm the identity of murdered Israeli hostages, abuse the Palestinian terrorist murderers because their release from prison may become delayed. Outrageously, he says that the parents waiting extra time for the released terrorists, many of whom by law should be remaining in prison for life, "is a violation of the law, this is torture."

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The world must recognize the face of evil of the Palestinian Authority. For PA/Fatah leaders, torturing and murdering Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir is not against the law, but delaying the release of murderers, whom Israel was forced to release in an extortion deal, is against the law.

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Fatah Secretary in The Hague Zaid Tyam: "The occupation (i.e., Israel) checked the bodies and other things to drag its feet to abuse the Palestinian prisoners… The [Palestinian] families who stayed from Saturday until the following Saturday in some places waiting for their sons is a violation of the law, this is torture. Why don't people and the world talk about this issue?"
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[Al-Qahera News TV (Egypt), YouTube channel, March 3, 2025]
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The PA cannot receive any sort of control in Gaza as long as it continues to honor terrorists
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Ramallah governor welcomes released terrorists and visits their families
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While the Palestinian Authority tells the world it has reformed and can rule the Gaza Strip without turning it into a terror base, the PA's behavior shows that it is still a terror-supporting entity.

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The PA continues to place terrorists on a pedestal. Palestinian Media Watch already has reported on how Mahmoud Abbas heaped praise and honor upon the terrorist murderers that Israel was forced to release from prison in order to free its hostages. Now, one of Abbas' confidants and a senior Palestinian leader, Ramallah District Governor Laila Ghannam, is playing a central role in celebrating these released terrorists. She has made a habit of visiting their families and portraying them as heroes.

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"We are proud of our released prisoners," Ghannam proclaimed next to the mother of Ahmed Barghouti, who was responsible for the deaths of 12 people while serving as a commander of Fatah's terror branch, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

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Ghannam is well aware of the terrorists' murderous crimes, as she states in her Facebook post publicizing her visit, which can be seen below. She posted a picture of herself beside the mother of the murderer of 12 and wrote that the 13 life sentences Barghouti was serving is reason to offer him blessings. Addressing the terrorists remaining in prison, she said: "We salute our heroic prisoners behind bars."

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Considering how terrorists remain its greatest heroes, the Palestinian Authority clearly has no interest in creating a terror-free Gaza.

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Posted text: "I had the honor of visiting the mother and family of released and deported prisoner Ahmed Barghouti, ‘the Frenchman,' who embraced his freedom after 23 years of imprisonment behind the bars of the occupation's prisons. We conveyed blessings to him and his family, as he was serving 13 life sentences plus 50 years. In such moments, we salute our heroic prisoners behind bars and anticipate the day they will be released. We also hope that those who were deported return soon to the arms of their families, as our people believe that exile will not be an eternal destiny, and the return will come no matter how long it may take."
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[Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam, Facebook page, March 2, 2025]
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Of the steady stream of Palestinian Authority lies, possibly the most farcical is its claim to be a 6000-year-old nation together with its denial of the thousands of years of Israel's documented history. This recent cartoon appearing on an official Fatah website reinforces the lie.

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While the PA knows that there is no such thing as an ancient Palestinian Arab history prior to the last few decades, it appropriates the history of multiple ethnic groups present in the Land of Israel thousands of years ago as its own, declaring them to be "Palestinian."

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This propaganda is constant, coming from all PA leaders, so-called academics, and religious figures, and it is prevalent across all the PA's controlled education and media. The headline of the cartoon above is called "The history" and the caption states:

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"The Palestinian people have a long history of culture, and they were part of ancient cultures, as their lands were characterized by diverse cultures over the generations, from the Canaanites to the Phoenicians."
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[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Feb. 19, 2025]
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Cartoons like these are a snapshot of how the PA systematically brainwashes its people to deny Israel's right to exist through distortion or denial of history. This education forms the core of how the PA educates children while it is also preached consistently by PA leadership.

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One example of how this kind of PA/Fatah false education can be seen in Fatah's children's magazine:

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"Palestine has belonged to the Palestinians for thousands of years. Therefore, the Palestinian people rejected this [UN] resolution that gives rights to our land and our homeland to foreigners who came from all ends of the earth, foreigners who did not know Palestine and did not live in it – neither them nor their fathers and forefathers. Their color is not our color, their skin is not our skin, and their customs are different from our customs. They do not even have one color or one ethnic origin – they are a strange and odd mixture of different races."
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[Waed, Issue 36, p. 2]
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The facts are that Israel/Judea suffered invasion and expulsions by the Assyrian Empire (722 BCE) and the Babylonian Empire (586 BCE); experienced invasion and return from exile under the Persian Empire (538 BCE); occupation by the Greek Empire (329 BCE) and expulsions by the Roman Empire (70 CE and 135 CE), who also renamed the land "Syria-Palestina" in 135 CE. Since then, Jews remained and survived in the Land of Israel and in exile during 2,000 years of invasions and occupation by foreigners until the State of Israel was reestablished in 1948.

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None of this matters to PA/Fatah. Besides denying Israel's ancient history, it instead rewrites actual aspects of Jewish history as "Palestinian history":

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"The Canaanite Arabs settled the land of Palestine… Palestine underwent dozens of invasions, and many peoples entered it such as the Babylonians, the Persians, the Samaritans, the Assyrians, the Hyksos, the Hittites, the Pharaohs, and the Hebrews… One hundred years ago the British invaded it. Their invasion was the most dangerous because they deliberately arrived to give our land to the Jews, whom they brought with them. In the end, Palestine fell under the Zionist occupation, which continues to this very day… The occupation will cease to exist just as what was before it ceased to exist. As we said, Palestine underwent many invasions that coveted it. All the invaders were defeated, and Palestine returned to be free and Arab."
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[Waed, Issue 32, pp. 5-6]
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Since according to the PA/Fatah, Palestinians are descendants of the 5,000-year-old Canaanite-Palestinians and since the PA says Jews have no history in the land, Palestinians then have the "absolute right to take back its rights in full" [Waed, Issue 26, page 12] and therefore:

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"The Palestinian people will not surrender; just as it fought in the past to defend its land, it is returning to fight in order to take it back and return to it… The Palestinian people refused to surrender… Its men and women set out to seek ways to return Palestine to us."
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[Waed, Issue 25, pp. 4-5]
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On the level of the PA leadership, the same nonsense is preached from the highest levels, be it by the former Palestinian prime minister or by Mahmoud Abbas' top advisor:

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Posted text: "[Fatah Central Committee member and former PA Prime Minister Muhammad] Shtayyeh emphasized that all the Israeli attempts to erase our Palestinian heritage, and through it to erase the history of our people and our Palestinian national cause, as well as Israel's attempts to create a fake history and non-existent heritage, will not succeed because we will continue our steadfast adherence to this rich heritage that passes from generation to generation."
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[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Nov. 29, 2024]
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "We have been living in this land for over 6,000 years. The Palestinian people is the one that created the civilization and history of this land. It is the one who built all the cities in most of the territories of Palestine – the Gaza Strip, which was built by the Canaanites, and Jerusalem, which was built by the Jebusite Canaanites."
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[Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, Feb. 12, 2025]
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The fact is that no amount of cartoons or reinvented education will help the PA escape the facts. The Palestinians have no history prior to the modern period and no connection to the Canaanites or the Phoenicians. On the other hand, Jewish history for thousands of years in the Land of Israel is proven by an abundance of evidence.

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The Palestinian Authority is trying to turn a loathsome terrorist who planned a gruesome mass-murder into a victim. The PA's official daily published a tear-jerker-style story that the terrorist, Amjad Takatka, who was released in the recent Hamas extortion deal, was forced to go to Egypt "to live in exile far from his two daughters and his grandchildren, whom he has not yet seen."

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Who was Amjad Takatka? Takatka was serving 6 life sentences for driving a suicide bomber, 17-year-old Andalib Takatka, to carry out an attack that killed 6 people and wounded more than 80 outside Jerusalem's marketplace on April 12, 2002. Takatka was released from prison on February 15, 2025.

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The official daily painted Takatka's meeting with his wife in Egypt as "a moment that sums up years of pain and deprivation." It further lamented:

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"When Takatka was arrested 23 years ago, he was the father of two little girls: Samah, who was not yet 2 years old, and Anahid, a baby who was not yet 3 months old. He did not know then that the occupation would sentence him to 18 (sic., 6) life sentences in a cell isolated from life and family."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 17, 2025]
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The PA's official newspaper completely omitted the reason Takatka was imprisoned and that he participated in the murder of Israelis Rivka Fink, Nissan Cohen, Yelena Konrav, and Suheila Hushi as well as foreign workers Lin Chang Mai and Chai Siang Yong.

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Trying to trigger feelings of sympathy for the mass murderer, the PA paper portrayed the meeting with his wife:

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"In a moment that sums up years of pain and deprivation, released prisoner Amjad Kamel Takatka, 45… met in Egypt with his wife Taghrid after 23 years behind the bars of the occupation (i.e., Israel). This meeting, which the hearts had long awaited, was full of turbulent emotions, in which tears intermingled with smiles... He breathed the fragrance of freedom as part of the sixth round of the ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, and the occupation deported him abroad. When Takatka was arrested 23 years ago, he was the father of two little girls: Samah, who was not yet 2 years old, and Anahid, a baby who was not yet 3 months old. He did not know then that the occupation would sentence him to 18 (sic., 6) life sentences in a cell isolated from life and family... In a Cairo hotel, Amjad stood in anticipation. From the other side, his wife Taghrid approached him, who had waited for him patiently over these decades. When the two met, place and time disappeared, leaving only the long moment of embrace, in which the tears were diluted by the sound of the heart, which began beating again after years of waiting... However, the joy was incomplete. Despite the freedom that Amjad achieved, he was unable to return to his land and his home because he was deported to Egypt… Amjad said in a voice of joy accompanied by sorrow: ‘So far, I have not been able to hug my daughters, I have not heard my grandchildren's laughter. This pain has not ended yet, but I console myself with the fact that I have at least left prison.'"
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 17, 2025]
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This heroic portrayal of the mass murderer is representative of the Palestinian Authority, which sees terrorists as the ultimate heroes. The never-ending pain that the 86 victims' families have lived with ever since the terror attack in April 2002 is irrelevant to the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority.

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Itamar Marcus and Ephraim D. Tepler