A review of Palestinian Authority reactions to the escape and capture of the terrorist prisoners.

While four of the six escaped Palestinian terrorists are back behind bars, the PA, PLO, and Fatah continue to highlight the “victory” of the six “heroes” and “revolutionaries who succeeded in liberating themselves,” while praising all the imprisoned terrorists as “the best of us and a crown on the head of the Palestinian people.”

Moreover, Fatah describes “everyone who resists this occupation” as “a freedom fighter,” while PLO calls the prison break “a mighty victory” and “heroic event”:

“The Fatah Movement said that ‘the prisoners are the best of us and a crown on the head of the Palestinian people, and we and the masses of our people will not stand idly by if our heroic prisoners are harmed in any one of the Israeli occupation’s prisons.’ … Fatah warned the occupation authorities against the consequences of harming the lives of the six heroic Palestinian prisoners who carried out their sacred right to freedom.

It emphasized that the Palestinian people’s struggle against the occupation is a legal right and that the occupation itself is the one that is invalid according to international law, and everyone who resists this occupation is a freedom fighter…

Head of the PLO Department of Expatriate Affairs Rawhi Fattouh… mentioned the six prisoners’ liberation operation from the Israeli Gilboa Prison by saying: ‘Our heroic prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons recorded a mighty victory, which is added to the list of their victories and legendary resolve, after six of them escaped through a tunnel they dug at Gilboa Prison.’

He described what happened as a great victory and a heroic event.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 10, 2021]

The term “resist” is a term the PA uses for violence and terror. Even Palestinian terrorists who murder civilians are said to be legitimately "resisting." 

The PA Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Muhammad Hussein “praised the male and female prisoners and said: ‘Peace to our heroic prisoners and those of them who were liberated, and the greatest sacrifice is that a man become a Martyr or prisoner.’”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 11, 2021]

Before the capture of four of the six escaped terrorists, the PA, PLO, and Fatah called on the Palestinian public - and even “demanded” – that it “support and aid” them:

“Hundreds of citizens participated in processions yesterday, Friday [Sept. 10, 2021]… in Jenin as a sign of support for the prisoners… The speeches at the two processions on behalf of the [Palestinian] National and Islamic Forces called for additional support and aid for the prisoners who achieved their freedom and for the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons…

They held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the lives of the prisoners who broke the chains and succeeded in escaping from Gilboa Prison and demanded that all elements of our people support and aid them.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 11, 2021]

When Israel announced that the capture of the first two terrorists succeeded thanks to the help of Israeli Arab citizens in Nazareth who reported seeing the prisoners, the PA was quick to claim this an Israeli “fabrication” designed to “sow the seeds of strife and divisiveness” among Palestinians:

“Jenin District Governor Akram Rajoub called to fight those who are stirring up strife among the members of the one [Palestinian] people in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and inside the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel)… :

‘Since yesterday the occupation’s pawns have begun to sow the seeds of strife and divisiveness among the members of the one people, and this is just in order to divert attention from the defeat that it experienced against the determination of our heroic prisoners’”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 12, 2021]

“[The insults against Nazareth citizens] have spread on social media since Friday evening, and they reached the lowest level when every resident of Nazareth entering Jenin and the West Bank was threatened following the arrest of two prisoners from among the six heroes.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 12, 2021]

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