PMW Bulletin
June 18, 2017

PA turns murderers into victims

Fatah called Israel's shooting three terrorist murderers and thereby cutting
short their terror attack a "despicable crime that was committed today in
cold blood and claimed the lives of three Palestinians"

The three terrorists had just stabbed and murdered 23-year-old Hadas Malka,
an Israeli policewoman

Fatah called on the "the entire world" to "condemn the war crime"

"The [PA] Ministry of Health announced... that three young people were shot
by occupation forces and died as Martyrs"

Itamar Marcus
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According to the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party,
Israel does not have the right to stop Palestinian terrorists in the act of
murdering Israelis, for to do so is a "war crime."

On Friday, Hadas Malka, a 23-year-old Israeli policewoman, was stabbed to
death by a Palestinian terrorist on Friday near the Old City of Jerusalem's
Damascus gate. Armed with guns and knives, the terrorist, part of a group of
three, was planning a large terror attack. However after the young Israeli
woman was murdered, police immediately shot and killed the three terrorists.

Fatah and the PA immediately and repeatedly condemned Israel's cutting short
the Jerusalem terror attack, and honored the terrorist murderers calling
them Shahids - Islamic Martyrs.

Fatah Movement:
"The Fatah Movement called on the entire world and its international
institutions to condemn the war crime that the Israeli occupation forces
committed on Friday in Jerusalem, a short time before the meal to break the
[Ramadan] fast, against three young Palestinians."

Fatah spokesman Osama Al-Qawasmi:
"The silence of the international community in light of the continuation of
the occupation and its crimes, which have not stopped for even one moment,
encourages Israel to permit [the spilling of] Palestinian blood. The
despicable crime that was committed today in cold blood and claimed the
lives of three Palestinians is nothing but proof of that."
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news agency, June 16, 2017]

PA Minister of Education and Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri
Saidam:
"May Allah have mercy on the Martyrs (Shahids) of Jerusalem and all of
Palestine."
[Facebook page of PA Minister of Education and
Fatah Central Committee Deputy Secretary Sabri Saidam, June 16, 2017]

PA Ministry of Health:
"The [PA] Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening [June 16, 2017]
that three young people were shot by occupation forces and died as Martyrs."

"[Fatah] demanded that the international community seriously examine
providing international defense to the defenseless Palestinian people."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 17, 2017]

Official Palestinian Authority daily:
"On the third Friday in the month of Ramadan [June 16, 2017] the waiting
does not last long. A burst of bullets split the tense atmosphere, and after
it the sirens of police vehicles were heard... After a few minutes an
additional burst of bullets caused panic and confirmed that the third Friday
of Ramadan would end with blood on the sidewalks of Jerusalem...
While four young [Palestinians] lay prone on the sidewalk (i.e., 3
terrorists killed during terror attack) they [Israel] evacuated the wounded
female soldier, whose death was published shortly after. They treated the
young [Palestinians] - three of whom later died as Martyrs (Shahids) - with
indifference...
The smell of blood will continue to surround the holy and occupied city [of
Jerusalem] until dawn. There are young people that wanted to say a clear
'No!' to the occupation in their way."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 18, 2017]

Presenting Israeli self-defense against Palestinian terrorists as illegal
aggression is PA policy. During the recent Palestinian terror wave that
started in October 2015, after 65 stabbings and 8 shootings, in which 14
Israelis were murdered, and 167 were wounded PA leader Mahmoud Abbas
described it as follows:

"We said to everyone that we want peaceful popular uprising, and that's what
this is. That's what this is. However, the aggression of firing bullets has
come from the Israelis."
[Official PA TV, Nov. 16, 2015]

The following is a longer excerpt from the June 17th article from the
official PA daily cited above:

"The [PA] Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening [June 16, 2017]
that three young people were shot by occupation forces and died as
Martyrs... The Palestinian National Liberation Movement 'Fatah' condemned
the killing of three young people in East Jerusalem by the occupation. The
Fatah Movement said yesterday evening in a statement that the Israeli policy
of escalation... proves that the occupation government is continuing its
policy. It added that these shootings will leave the region in a state of
tension... It also demanded that the international community seriously
examine providing international defense to the defenseless Palestinian
people."

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 17, 2017]

Bara Saleh, Adel Ankoush, and Osama Ata - three Palestinian terrorists who
carried out a terror attack in Jerusalem on June 16, 2017. Two of the
terrorists, one armed with an automatic weapon and the other with a knife,
attacked Israeli police officers north of the Old City of Jerusalem. Seconds
later a third terrorist stabbed and murdered Israeli border policewoman
Hadas Malka, 23, at the Old City's Damascus Gate as she and other officers
were responding to the first attack. All three terrorists were shot and
killed by the Israeli officers. Aside from Malka, four Israelis were wounded
in the attack.