Peloni: It boggles the mind that while the Americans are demanding that the PA should be allowed to rule Gaza despite the fact that they are of the same ilk as the terror based, genocidal Hamas, that Isreal is not demanding removal of the terror based, genocidal PA from ruling over the lands which they already control in Judea and Samaria. As Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, former deputy chief of staff and head of the National Security Council notes:
“We have pretty good control on the ground, but all the other data is worse than the situation in the envelope. There are tens of thousands of Palestinians carrying weapons, and the potential of their raid on one community or another exists at any moment…”
The Limited Times 12/14/2023
Highlights: Fatah’s growing complicity in terrorism, assassinations and arrests of many of its members, official PA standing behind their martyrs, and official death notices and military funerals for their members. Senior Fatah officials explicitly speak in favor of a massacre in Judea and Samaria as well, but the cabinet has so far refrained from dealing with the issue. The event that is now taking place before our eyes may indicate that the Oslo concept of maintaining the PA, to which Netanyahu and the defense establishment still adhere, is on the verge of breaking. The warning signs and signals are too numerous for us to ignore.
Twice in the past, the Palestinian Authority pointed its weapons at the IDF and fought it. Now there is growing concern about the third time, and of attempted raids and massacres in Judea and Samaria and the seam line as well • In the background: Fatah’s growing complicity in terrorism, assassinations and arrests of many of its members, official PA standing behind their martyrs, and official death notices and military funerals for their members • Senior Fatah officials explicitly speak in favor of a massacre in Judea and Samaria as well, but the cabinet has so far refrained from dealing with the issue and the defense establishment is obscuring data, Perhaps in an attempt to preserve the “partner” – the signs and warning signals are too numerous for us to ignore
The details of the big picture in Judea and Samaria – Israel’s “third front” these days – seem routine, somewhat trivial. Another night arrest, another prevention, another shooting on the roads, but only after gathering, one by one, the pieces of the entire puzzle, is the terrible danger revealed, whose many buds are only emerging now.
This is no longer “only” mass demonstrations in solidarity with the October 7 massacre in the streets of Ramallah, Nablus or Tulkarm. These are no longer “only” statements by senior Fatah figures, headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in favor of the massacre in the Gaza Strip, and in stirring up the spirits towards the possibility of a similar atrocity against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria or along the seamline communities, within the Green Line.
The event that is now taking place before our eyes may indicate that the Oslo concept of maintaining the PA, to which Netanyahu and the defense establishment still adhere, is on the verge of breaking. That the scenario of a “reversal of the barrels” by the PA apparatuses towards IDF forces, and/or communities in Judea and Samaria and the seam line within the Green Line, is approaching. The warning signs and signals are too numerous for us to ignore.
Since the beginning of 2023, dozens of attacks, attempted attacks and shooting attacks against IDF forces or the civilian population in Judea and Samaria have been carried out by Palestinian policemen, members of the Preventive Security forces and other PA apparatuses. Alongside many successful assassinations by the IDF and Shin Bet against Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, dozens of Fatah members were also eliminated in the past year. These are mainly Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which since 2021 have returned to terrorism, and prior to the massacre in the envelope explicitly called their members “… What are you waiting for? It’s time to kill the Jews…”
Since Guardian of the Walls, more than 100 members of the security forces have been killed while attempting to carry out attacks, mainly led by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. They are often in contact with Fatah secretaries in their regions; Those whose declarations in favor of the massacre and their explicit hope for a similar massacre in their sector, Judea and Samaria, have been scorching the Palestinian networks over the past two months.
The facts presented here are efmphasized by the PA, but (relatively) downplayed by Israel, which still sees the PA and its security forces as partners. Israel’s deliberate obfuscation emerges from announcements by the defense establishment about arrests (or prevention). These announcements usually report the general number of detainees and indicate how many of them are Hamas affiliations. A week ago, for example, it was reported that since the beginning of the war, 2,200 people have been arrested in Judea and Samaria, about 1,100 of whom are Hamas affiliations. The public has not been told to whom the other 50 percent belong, and one has to look carefully at the reports, especially from the Palestinian side, to understand that alongside jihadists and “unidentified,” many are affiliated with organizations affiliated with Fatah, the PA’s flesh, or its security apparatuses. Those that the United States aspires to integrate, the day after the war, into the comprehensive solution for Gaza and the West Bank.
“Even one penny”
The dimming of this information in the official announcements of the defense establishment is not accidental. It is intended to preserve what remains (and indeed remains!) of the security cooperation with the PA apparatuses in order to thwart terrorist attacks. It is intended to prevent, as much as possible, copying and imitation attacks by other members of the apparatus. At the same time, however, information about the role of members of the security forces and Fatah in terrorism against Israel is greatly concealed.
PA announcements, on the other hand, not only are there no concealment of the event that is now unfolding before our eyes, on the contrary. A few months before the massacre in the Gaza envelope, Fatah published a collage of photos of 24 terrorists, “martyrs” as it called them, many of them members of the PA apparatuses, who were killed in the confrontation with Israel. The publication, revealed by Palestinian Media Watch, was last published on 14 November and bears the inscription “We are proud of you.” It was distributed throughout the West Bank as part of the open competition with Hamas to lead the struggle against Israel.
Today, the families of the 24 members of these security forces receive respectable terrorist grants of thousands of shekels a month, like thousands of other terrorists from Hamas and other organizations, some of whom are affiliated with Fatah. Abbas himself has already made it clear that “even if the PA has only one penny left, it will direct it, first of all, to the relatives of the martyrs and prisoners,” and that he will never withhold their salaries.
Fatah and PA members, like Hamas members killed in attacks or assassinations, have been receiving death notices and official PA military funerals over the past two months, and official PA officials often participate in the event. Muhammad Abad, for example, an officer in the Palestinian security forces who was assassinated in Jenin alongside other terrorists who planned to carry out an attack on one of the communities in Samaria, received such a ceremony and obituary.
The connection between the PA security apparatuses and Fatah’s “Al-Aqsa Martyrs” has also been illustrated more than once in recent weeks. The recently assassinated head of the battalions in Tulkarm, Jihad Shehadeh, is pictured alongside his friends in the Palestinian security forces in the city, holding an M-16 rifle. Some of the terrorists who acted against the IDF have family members in the apparatuses, and often the sons of senior members of the apparatus are terrorists. For example, Nayef Rajoub, a senior Hamas figure in the town of Dura, is the brother of Jibril Rajoub, former head of the Preventive Security apparatus in the West Bank, who expressed support for the massacre in the Gaza Strip and promised “a more violent explosion in the West Bank.”
While we do not have an internal organizational breakdown of the 1,600 hot terrorism incidents (shooting and IEDs) and the 4,000 stone-throwing and stone-throwing incidents that took place throughout Judea and Samaria in 2023, there is a short list of terrorist incidents over the past year in which terrorists from Fatah and its branches took part, alongside Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
United Battalions
Meir Tamari of Hermesh was murdered last May by Fatah members, as was Batsheva Negri at the Sheep Junction last August. A Palestinian policeman named Alaa Quatu from Tulkarm refugee camp planned to assassinate Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, and Abd al-Fattah Harosheh, the murderer of Yagel and Hillel Yaniv in Huwara, was also a member of the PA’s internal security apparatus, and at the same time was a terrorist planted in Hamas. These are just examples.
And the list goes on. Many of the terrorists who murdered and harmed IDF soldiers and civilians in the past two years were members of Fatah and the PA apparatuses. Only recently was it reported, not too emphatically, that Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Hebron area, a distinctly Hamas city, threatened Mahmoud Abbas that if he did not join the war against Israel, they would rebel against him militarily.
If we go back to the period before Guardian of the Walls, we can find more examples of involvement of members of the security forces in terrorist attacks, but the frequency has been increasing since Guardian of the Walls, and even more so in 2023.
Just two weeks ago, senior Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi refuted claims that Fatah was not involved in the fighting, and even noted (in an interview with the Palestinian Al-Sharq TV) that Fatah, which is involved in the fighting alongside Gaza, has adopted terrorist groups in refugee camps and cities, such as Nablus and Jenin, where united battalions of all the organizations operate. Tirawi, former head of Palestinian intelligence, claimed that the organizations were coordinated and that “Fatah has never given up its rifle and the armed struggle and will always be at the forefront of the struggle.”
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