“The members of the [PA] Security Forces are the heroes of the self-sacrificing movement… They are the ones who struggled with their bare bodies, their willpower, and their courage in the Al-Aqsa Intifada in the years 2000-2005” – column in official PA daily

As Palestinian Media Watch has documented, the PA, led by Fatah, competes with Hamas over who is doing more for “the Palestinian cause” –  in particular, who is “resisting” the most by carrying out more terror attacks against Israel.

Accordingly, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub bragged at a recent Fatah rally that 12% of the imprisoned Palestinian terrorists are from the PA Security Forces:

Along the same lines, Fatah Revolutionary Council Secretary Majed Al-Fatiani stated that Fatah is “leading this popular resistance and it is part of the Palestinian organizational and fighting activity,” and emphasized that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “never opposed any… action that could contribute to this occupation leaving”:

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans, and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car-ramming attacks. Well into the terror wave, when 14 Israelis had already been murdered, Abbas said: "We want a peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is."

A columnist in the official PA daily similarly praised the PA Security Forces earlier this month, stressing their participation in the PA’s terror against Israel.