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by Itamar Marcus
People walk into Jerusalem’s Old City via Jaffa Gate, Oct. 11, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Sinan Abu Mayzer
While the scope of Hamas murderous atrocities are far greater than those committed by Palestinians associated with the Palestinian Authority (PA), the fundamental Palestinian policy of supporting and justifying the murder of all Israelis was established by the PA years ago, and continues to be the foundation of PA terror support.
We witnessed another example of this yesterday, when a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist from eastern Jerusalem stabbed and seriously wounded a border policewoman and moderately wounded another, near Jerusalem’s old city. The terrorist was shot and killed immediately after his attack.
WAFA, the official PA news agency, headlined the story: “A child was shot by the occupation and died as a Martyr in Jerusalem.”
The article also says that the “Martyr” will “ascend to heaven” — stressing that his action of stabbing and attempting to murder an Israeli is what Allah desires of Palestinians, and therefore the 16-year-old terrorist will be granted the glorious afterlife reserved for “Martyrs.”
While the WAFA story mentions Israel’s “claim” that the terrorist attempted to stab multiple people, the story continues to present him as a heroic victim and Islamic Martyr:
A child was shot by the Israeli occupation forces and died this morning, Monday in occupied Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses reported to [the official PA news agency] WAFA that the occupation forces fired a volley of bullets at child Muhammad Omar Al-Faroukh, 16, from the village [Jerusalem neighborhood] of Issawiya, on Saladin Street in central Jerusalem, on the claim that he attempted to carry out a stabbing operation, which caused his death as a Martyr.
The occupation police claimed that two female soldiers [sic., a border policewoman and a border policeman] were wounded, one of them critically…
With the ascent to Heaven of child Al-Faroukh in Jerusalem, the number of Martyrs in the West Bank since Oct. 7, [2023] rises to 144.
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Nov. 6, 2023]
This is what Israel is up against — not just from Hamas, but also the Palestinian Authority.
The author is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.
