PMW Bulletin
Feb. 4, 2016

Fatah: Three murderers of policewoman
in yesterday's terror attack are "role models"

Father of one of the terrorists expressed joy
over his son's "death as a Martyr"

by Itamar Marcus
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

Text: "Martyr" Ahmad Zakarneh,"Martyr" Muhammad Kmeil, and "Martyr" Ahmad
Abu Al-Rub

The Fatah movement praised the three terrorists who murdered policewoman
Hadar Cohen in yesterday's terror attack at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
Fatah published the above picture of the three terrorists on its official
Facebook page, calling them "role models":

"Those who carried out the self-sacrifice operation in occupied Jerusalem
are Ahmad Abu Al-Rub, Ahmad Zakarneh, and Muhammad Kmeil from the village of
Qabatiya in the Jenin district.
They were three men who competed with each other for [Martyrdom] death
Their feet were raised above the hangman's neck
They became role models
Across the length and breadth of the homeland."
[Official Facebook page of the Fatah Movement, Feb. 3, 2016]

The father of one of the murderous terrorists spoke in a news report on
official PA TV and praised his son's death as a "Martyr":
Father: "We received the news with joy, a Martyr, our Lord chose him from
among the people to be a Martyr, Allah will pardon him, and we hope he will
be among the people of Paradise, Allah willing. Praise Allah in any case."
[Official PA TV, Feb. 3, 2016]
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http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=585&fld_id=635&doc_id=17152

The news broadcast on official PA TV last night opened with the newscaster's
report of the "death as Martyrs" of three young Palestinians from "the
occupation's bullets at the Damascus Gate." The newscaster emphasized that
the young Palestinians died as "Martyrs," without mentioning that they set
out to perpetrate a murderous attack against Israelis. Only later in the
broadcast did the reporter note a "shooting and stabbing operation... that
caused the death of one soldier."

A Fatah activist from the town of Qabatiya, from where the terrorists set
out, said in the same report that the three were "executed in cold blood."

The following is a transcript of what was said in the news report last night
(Feb. 3, 2016) on official PA TV:

Official PA TV newscaster: "Three young people died as Martyrs (Shahids)
from the occupation's bullets; an Israeli soldier was killed in occupied
Jerusalem...
Three young people died as Martyrs from the occupation's bullets at Damascus
Gate in the center of occupied Jerusalem; At the same time, an Israeli
soldier was killed and four additional [people] were injured by gunfire and
an attempted stabbing. Our reporter said that the three Martyrs are from the
town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin."

Official PA TV reporter: "In the stabbing and shooting operation at Damascus
Gate carried out by 3 young people from the town of Qabatiya, which caused
the death of one soldier and serious injury of another, the three who
carried it out, whose names are Ahmad Abu Al-Rub, Ahmad Zakarneh, and
Muhammad Kmeil, died as Martyrs from the occupation soldiers' shooting at
them. [The occupation soldiers] turned the site into a military zone after
the event, and shot in every direction."

Terrorist Muhammad Kmeil's father: "We received the news with joy, a Martyr,
our Lord chose him from among the people to be a Martyr, Allah will pardon
him, and we hope he will be among the people of Paradise, Allah willing.
Praise Allah in any case."

Muhammad Abu Ju'ab, Fatah 'activist' in the Qabatiya area: "A cold blooded
execution by the occupation. It is all a result of the occupation sitting on
'our chests' and a response by our young people - Qabatiya is familiar with
sacrifice, we have 10 Martyrs in the town. Praise Allah, Master of the
World, the whole town eulogizes them, in the name of all of Palestine, in
the name of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in the name of Jerusalem."
[Official PA TV, Feb. 3, 2016]

Ahmad Abu Al-Rub, Ahmad Zakarneh and Muhammad Kmeil - Three Palestinian
terrorists in their early 20's who shot and stabbed two Israeli police
officers at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Feb. 3, 2016. One of the
officers, 19-year-old Hadar Cohen, was fatally wounded and died of her
wounds. The second officer was seriously wounded. The terrorists, who
attacked the policewomen after they were asked for identification, were
carrying machine guns, knives, and pipe bombs, leading the police to suspect
they were planning a mass attack against civilians. The terrorists were shot
and killed at the scene by Israeli police.