Fatah Leader Says the ‘Next and More Violent Explosion Will Be in the West Bank’
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by Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
On several recent occasions, top Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub has stressed his and the PA/Fatah’s support for Hamas’ attack, massacre, and atrocities on October 7:
Fatah Movement Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “What happened on Oct. 7 [2023] was an earthquake, an unprecedented incident, and a war of defense full of epics and acts of heroism that the Palestinian people has been waging for 75 years.” [emphasis added]
[Al-Anba, Kuwaiti news website, Nov. 26, 2023]
Moreover, Rajoub has vowed that there will be “an explosion in the West Bank” that will be “more violent” than Hamas’ attack on October 7:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “[October 7] was part of a defensive war by the Palestinians. This will certainly lead to explosions, and the next and more violent explosion will be in the West Bank. …
The explosion that took place on Oct. 7 is a natural response to this [Israeli] terror. Those who are in power in Israel are an example of neo-Nazis … Hamas was, still is, and will remain part of the Palestinian political and national fabric and part of the struggle.
This battle [i.e., Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror war] will be an opening point for achieving Palestinian national unity … Our goal is the establishment of the independent Palestinian state that is fully sovereign over all the Palestinian territories.”
“Rajoub emphasized that what happened on Oct. 7 will be nothing compared to the coming explosions, if there will be no firm international position against this cancer [i.e., Israel].” [emphasis added]
[Al-Anba, Kuwaiti news website, Nov. 26, 2023]
Rajoub has promised that terror — which Palestinians call “resistance” — will continue everywhere:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “There is Israeli aggression [i.e., counter-terror operation against Hamas] against an unarmed people, against a people that is subjected to occupation; every occupation brings about resistance, and resistance will continue in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and the West Bank.
The continuation of these crimes by the occupation [i.e., Israel] is the start of an explosion in all the Palestinian territories. I say to everyone, the explosion in the West Bank is also coming … It has been clearly revealed that even the American administration is no longer able to contain or provide defense for this aggression, this fascism, this racism, and this Nazism.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Nov. 20, 2023]
Rajoub has also stressed several times that he and the PA/Fatah endorse Hamas and its terror, and as one of the statements above shows, he views the October 7 massacre as an “opening point for achieving Palestinian national unity.”
Rajoub: “We view political Islam, and foremost among it the Hamas Movement, as part of the fabric of our struggle and our political and social fabric. We must preserve our achievements, we are a liberation project, and we are all potential Martyrs.” [emphasis added]
[Al-Anba, Kuwaiti news website, Nov. 26, 2023]
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “I expect of all the Palestinians in any battle — unite, unite, unite, Palestinians.Forget the story of Fatah, Hamas, Islam, or Christianity, forget [it]. We are in a battle that is targeting us all.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Nov. 21, 2023]
Like many other PA and Fatah leaders, Rajoub justifies Hamas’ terror attack on Oct. 7, claiming it was a Palestinian defensive response to Israel’s “neo-Nazi government” targeting the entire “Palestinian state’s existence”:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “The Israeli fascist right-wing is telling you that its declared goals are to eliminate Hamas and so on and so forth, and the rest of this idle chatter, but its undeclared goals are to bury the idea of the Palestinian state’s existence …
Therefore, they are targeting everything that is Palestinian, whether it is in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and even the 2 million Palestinians who are inside Israel…” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Nov. 19, 2023]
Palestinian Media Watch has exposed numerous statements over many years by Rajoub that show he supports terror against Israel.
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
