By Maurice Hirsch, Adv. , PMW| Oct 27, 2022
In the morning of Oct. 25, 2022, Israeli Security Forces carried out an anti-terror mission against the “Lion’s Den” terror cell. The cell had carried out a number of terror attacks. The goal of the mission was to neutralize one of its senior members Wadi’ Al-Houh and disrupt the cell’s terror activities. During the mission, Al-Houh and other members of the cell were killed. The apartment they were killed in, also served as a bomb making laboratory.
Responding to the killing of the terrorists and the exposure of the bomb making factory, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul admitted that the PA Security Forces were fighting together with terrorists – the Tanzim – against Israel (in his words, “the occupation”). He added that Israel soldiers were wounded ” as a result of the brave position of the Palestinian Security Forces” and that all Palestinians are “one unit” including the PA security forces and Fatah’s terror faction:
Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “A confrontation took place between Israeli special forces and the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces (i.e., Israeli raid on terror cell). There are a number of wounded on our side from among the Palestinian Security [Forces] members who fought with the occupation. There are also wounded from among the occupation soldiers as a result of the brave position of the Palestinian Security Forces in this affair. We speak about all the Palestinians. All the Palestinians are one unit. The Security Forces members, the Tanzim (i.e., Fatah terror faction), the public, and everyone – one unit in dealing with this occupation.”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Oct. 25, 2022]
Palestinian Media Watch has exposed many recent admissions that the PA Security Forces are taking an active role in terror and that Fatah, the party of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has returned to terror.
Al-Aloul’s statement is of considerable significance for at least two reasons.
Firstly, Al-Aloul is the deputy head of Fatah. He was appointed by Abbas himself, who created the new position specifically for Al-Aloul. Accordingly, this is the first statement of someone in such a senior Fatah position, admitting that the PA Security Forces are fighting against Israeli soldiers while simultaneously protecting wanted, armed terrorists held up in a bomb making laboratory.
Secondly, when Al-Aloul says that the PA Security Forces and Fatah’s terror faction The Tanzim “are one unit” he is essentially admitting that there is no separation between the US and EU trained and funded PA Security Forces, who are meant to be combatting terror and arresting terrorists, and the Palestinian terrorists themselves.
Wadi’ Al-Houh, Ali Antar, Hamdi Qayyim, Mash’al Baghdadi, Hamdi Sharaf – The “confrontation” refers to Palestinian terrorists and members of the independent terror cell “the Lion’s Den” who shot at Israeli soldiers when they raided and destroyed a headquarters and weapons and explosives laboratory of the cell in Nablus on Oct. 25, 2022. During the raid, PA Security Forces shot at the Israeli soldiers, who returned fire in self-defense wounding several members of the PA Security Forces. The soldiers also came under fire from members of the terror cell and returned fire, killing 5 terrorists: Wadi’ Al-Houh, Ali Antar, Hamdi Qayyim, Mash’al Baghdadi, Hamdi Sharaf. Al-Houh was a senior member of “the Lion’s Den.”
From Benny Gantz one week ago (link).
This report by Palestinian Media Watch certainly does characterize Gantz’ assessment of the PA being a ‘relatively moderate body’ as woefully inaccurate, in near real time as possible. As Gantz is pretending to be the responsible party fighting for Israel’s security in this election, he has filled Samaria with illegal Arab settlements, supported the complete surrender to the Iranian terrorists of Israel’s gas rights in the disputed territories, along with the associated Israeli territory, and labeled an obvious, now self confessed, terrorist group as being ‘relatively moderate’. Gantz has done about as good a job as possible of demonstrating his great incapacity for any significant role in leadership. His terribly misjudged judgement has been remarkably consistent in being contrary to the nation’s interests and currently seems to still be as far from the mark as ever. The Left are not just incompetent, they are, in fact, quite dangerous, acting as tools of the Radicals in Washington, which is threatening Israel’s position on multiple fronts.