The video shows terrorist Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf), who was head of the terror organization Black September, responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
On the anniversary, Fatah honors arch-terrorists Abu Jihad and Abu Iyad, stressing the right to carry out Jihad.
The video shows terrorist Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) who was head of the terror organization Black September, responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad,” who was responsible for the murder of 125 people.
Terrorist “Abu Iyad”: “We went to Fatah to realize the slogans of Jihad It is our right to fight in the way we see fit.”
Terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad”: “The only thing we rely on is this willpower, which does not waver and will never waver in any way!
Posted text: “A willpower that won’t surrender and a determination that won’t break.
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Dec. 25 and 31, 2025, Jan. 1, 2026]
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - Palestinian terrorist, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s deputy, one of the founders of Fatah, and head of the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah. Attacks he planned include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972) and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973). It is commonly assumed that his assassin, a former Fatah bodyguard, was sent by the Abu Nidal Organization, a rival Palestinian faction.
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960s-1980s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the Coastal Road attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Intilaqa - "the Launch" refers to the beginning of Fatah on Jan. 1, 1965, when it carried out its first terror attack against Israel, attempting to blow up Israel's National Water Carrier.
61 refers to the 61st anniversary of “the Launch” of Fatah, counted from its first terror attack against Israel -Ed.