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by Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visiting the West Bank city of Jenin. Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah still rejoice over the murder of 37 Israelis in 1978.
Long before Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, the attack known as the Coastal Road Massacre was the most lethal in Israel’s history — and has remained the source of immense pride for Fatah, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ political party.
On the anniversary of the attack, Abbas’ Fatah glorified female terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the massacre.
As Palestinian Media Watch has documented, Mughrabi has been turned by the PA into a hero and role model for Palestinian society.
Her “heroic” act was leading a squad of Fatah terrorists in the hijacking of a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, which led to the murder of 37 civilians — of which 12 were children — and the wounding of over 70.
The PA and Fatah refer to the hours during which the terrorists took control of the Israeli bus and held its passengers captive as “the establishment of the Palestinian republic.”
The Fatah post calls murderer Mughrabi “the first president of the republic”:
Text on image: “Dalal Mughrabi and her comrades established the Palestinian republic”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
The image shows the ruins of the Israeli bus that was hijacked and detonated by Mughrabi and her terror squad.
Text on image: “The Martyr Kamal Adwan operation [name given to the Coastal Road Massacre]
March 11, 1978
The day that Fatah established the Republic of Palestine … It never mattered how long this Palestinian republic lasted, rather that it was established altogether. The first president of the republic was Dalal Mughrabi, and the Palestinian flag flew in the depth of the occupied land on a road 95 km long on the main road in Palestine [i.e., Israel]
Self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi died as a Martyr along with the squad members. Two of them, prisoners Khaled Abu Asba and Hassan Fayyad, were captured and [later] released in an exchange deal in 1983″ [emphasis added]
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
Text on image: “‘Know all of you [Israelis] that the land of Palestine is Arab and will remain so no matter how much your voices and your buildings rise on its soil’ — the last words of self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi before her Martyrdom.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
The Palestinian Authority also marked the anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, describing in detail how Dalal Mughrabi joined Fatah and yearned to participate in a terror attack against Israel:
Yesterday was the 47th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi … She decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters [i.e., terrorists] in the Fatah Movement while still a student.
She took many military courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she trained with different weapons … She became known for her daring, her courage, her well-developed national sentiment, and for her devotion to Palestine and Fatah…
The [operation] plan was formulated by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ [i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis]… The self-sacrificing fighters competed among themselves to participate, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was 20. She was selected to lead the squad that would carry out the operation, which was made up of 10 self-sacrificing fighters.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2025]
Fatah’s Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University praised murderer Mughrabi as the one who traced “Palestine’s” borders “with her blood”:
Text on image and in post: “The 47th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of fighter Dalal Mughrabi, who outlined the borders of the homeland with her blood and wrote the praise of the self-sacrificing fighter with letters of light.”
[The Fatah Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, Facebook page, March 12, 2025]
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
