An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

Fatah Revolutionary Council member and former official spokesman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Security Forces, Adnan Al-Damiri, has accused Israel of desiring Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, and of deliberately ignoring the warnings that were made.

Al-Damiri then took the libel one step further, as he made a similar allegation about the US, claiming it willingly ignored warnings of Al-Qaeda’s terror attack on Sept. 11, 2001:

“They [Israel] knew about this and were silent because they wanted that what happened would happen, just as their teacher [America] did in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.”

[Fatah Revolutionary Council member Adnan Al-Damiri, Facebook page, Dec. 20, 2023]

This libel joins other defamatory accusations against Israel exposed by Palestinian Media Watch, among them that Israel murdered its own civilians on Oct. 7:

Similarly, the PA has claimed that Hamas terrorists’ beheading and massacring of children, rape, and burning of women are “stories and tales spun from the imagination”:

Official PA TV reporter: “From the first day of the [Israeli] attack, some Western media outlets deliberately took action to side with Israel and adopt the occupation’s narrative by broadcasting fabricated pictures and video clips, which tell stories and tales spun from the imagination that there are Israeli babies who were beheaded, and others about cases of rape and burning among captured women.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV, Oct. 31, 2023]

The PA continued promoting this libel when its Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement claiming that Israel itself carried out the Oct. 7 massacre to justify its attack on Gaza.

The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.