Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visiting the West Bank city of Jenin. Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman

Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party doesn’t want to play second fiddle to Hamas, and has been calling for terror and murdering Jews since Hamas launched its terror war on Israel with the massacre on Oct. 7.

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) also recently reported that Fatah bragged about its own participation in the atrocities, gloating that it helped Hamas.

And Fatah continues to call for terror. Mentioning the names of Palestinian terrorist murderers and terror leaders — and their “spirit of heroism” — Fatah urges everyone who owns a weapon to join the war against Israel. Again, this is coming from the group run by the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The allegedly secular movement appealed to Palestinians’ religious sentiment as well, packaging its call for terror in praise for Allah — “Call out Allahu Akbar from the rooftops … Call out Allahu Akbar from your mosques”:

Posted text: “We will not abandon anyone

O sons of the West Bank, O people of [former PA President] Yasser [Arafat], [Ahmed] Yassin [Hamas founder], and Abu Ali [Mustafa] [former Secretary-General of the PFLP], has the spirit of heroism within us died? …

Where are the sons of [Raed] Al-Karmi [terrorist, responsible for murder of 9], the sons of [Ahmed] Yassin and [Fathi] Shaqaqi [Islamic Jihad founder], where are the eagles of the [Popular] Front [for the Liberation of Palestine], and where are we in relation to the Gaza Strip

The Zionist occupation is continuing its massacres and annihilating our people, and we are still harvesting our Martyrs…

Call out Allahu Akbar from the rooftops, and this is the minimum action.

Call out Allahu Akbar from your mosques — Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar

This is a call of mobilization to all those who have a weapon

Shame and disgrace on everyone who abandons [the struggle]”

[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, Oct. 23, 2023; Tulkarem Brigade, Telegram channel, Oct. 23, 2023]

In fact, Palestinian youth in the West Bank have already heeded this call and taken to the streets to show their support for Hamas and the religious terror war against Israel, chanting “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is greatest):

Protesters in Jenin and Nablus:

Leader of chant: “Call out — Allahu Akbar”

Crowd: “Allahu Akbar!”

[“The Palestinian Center for Information” (Hamas), Twitter account, Oct. 29, 2023]

Protesters in Beita:

“Allahu Akbar …

O you who carry a rifle, if only you were prepared”

[Shehab news agency (Hamas), Twitter account, Oct. 29, 2023]

Protesters in Qarawat:

“O mother of the Martyr, lucky are you,

If only my mother were in your place

Leave the Martyr in his blood [during burial],

And 1,000 blessings to his mother…

The people of the weapons will take care of him…

The Al-Aqsa Mosque gate, from here —

Only the Martyr will open it…”

[Quds New Network, Twitter account, Oct. 29, 2023]

“Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar”

[Shehab news agency (Hamas), Twitter account, Oct. 29, 2023]

Palestinian Media Watch exposed a similar chant that was led by a teacher in the West Bank who taught young schoolgirls that “Jihad is our path,” and that the goal is to “blow up the Zionist’s head.”

Protesters in Tubas:

Chant leader: “O Muslim, call out ‘Allahu Akbar’”
Crowd: “O Muslim, call out ‘Allahu Akbar’”
Chant leader: “Blow up the Zionist’s head!”
Crowd: “Blow up the Zionist’s head!”

Fatah’s Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan has also stressed Fatah’s joint mission with Hamas and its willingness to attack Israelis:

Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan: “We as the Palestinian people are united in all the arenas of confrontation. We are united and aiming our bullets at the occupier and at the settlers.”

[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Oct. 21, 2023]

Fatah urges Palestinians to “teach Israel a lesson” everywhere:

Posted text: “A short statement issued by the Fatah Movement’s northern districts [i.e., the West Bank]:… We see an obligation to emphasize and integrate our statement with struggle and national activity in all the fields of confrontation in order to deter the aggression by teaching the occupation a lesson in all the arenas of confrontation.” [emphasis added]

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Oct. 28, 2023, and Fatah Movement – Tulkarem Branch, Facebook page, Oct. 28, 2023]

Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh seconded this, calling for “investment in our people’s struggle and its resistance” — i.e., terror — to create “a true deterring factor against the forces of evil and colonialism.” In other words, he called to fight Israel, the US, and other perceived “colonialist powers”:

Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 1) said: ‘We call on our brothers in Hamas to assemble a pure Palestinian front under the umbrella of the PLO, the sole legal representative of our Palestinian people, which will take action alongside those who are devoted to our people’s struggle and its right to freedom, a state, and self-determination, in order to invest in our people’s struggle and its resistance [i.e., terror] to the criminal aggression to which we are being subjected, for the sake of our people and the future of our existence and our cause in a way that will constitute a true deterring factor against the forces of evil and colonialism [i.e., Israel, US and European “colonialist powers”].’”  [emphasis added]

[Ma’an, independent Palestinian news agency, Oct. 30, 2023]