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Then PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: "In 1964, [Fatah's squad] carried out the operations (i.e., terror attacks) that we were required to carry out perfectly within the occupied Palestinian lands." Official PA TV narrator: "From the ruins of the Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the establishment..."
Fatah baselessly “explained” that Israel had murdered Arafat
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “If you ask me who is behind the assassination of [former PA President] Yasser Arafat, I will tell you: Israel and [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon. They are behind the assassination… We learned this from the Israeli statements and through...”
Prime Minister Shtayyeh says "Israel is continuing to escalate its measures and attacks" after Palestinian terrorists are killed while committing assaults - Shtayyeh states "we condemn the crime that put an end to the lives of these young people"
During recent events marking the anniversary of Arafat’s death, PA and Fatah officials repeated this libel
Nasser Al-Qidwa: "Israel is the one that poisoned Yasser Arafat and that is the cause of his death"
Official PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech on Jan. 28, 2020
![Fatah: Israel assassinated Arafat; Palestinian Authority is achievement that has been paid by “a river of [Palestinians’] sons' blood in the two intifadas”](/_next/image?url=%2FStorage%2FImages%2F2019%2Ffatah_post_280719.png&w=1080&q=75)
"[Israeli extremists] continued this with the assassination of Martyr and symbol Yasser Arafat"
"The State of Israel decided to get rid of Yasser Arafat on this date…"
"On March 11, 1956, the Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre in the city of Khan Yunis..."
Abbas' advisor: "There is suspicious and dangerous coordination... both Israel and Hamas incite against the president [Abbas] morning and night... and want to assassinate him." (Jan. 22, 2019)
"In his response to the Israeli threats and to the settlers’ incitement to murder him, the president recently told members of the press in Cairo: ‘They can kill me in my home with bullets or with a missile at any given moment. They can also kill me with poison, as they poisoned the late [PLO..."