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.

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.

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".