Fatah “renews oath” of Abbas and Arafat: “flag of Palestine” will fly “over Jerusalem” and “Revolution until victory.”
Fatah video includes archive footage of speeches by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and then PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “This is our oath, that a [Palestinian] boy or girl will wave the flag of Palestine over the mosque minarets of Jerusalem and the churches of Jerusalem.”
Former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: “We swear, we swear that the procession will continue until victory, until victory, revolution, revolution until victory.”
Posted text: “On the anniversary of Fatah's Intilaqa, we do not recall history – rather we renew an oath. #61st_anniversary_of_Fatah's_Intilaqa”
[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Telegram channel, Dec. 31, 2025]
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.
Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign – the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.