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Senior Palestinian Leader Urges People to Use Precise Systematic Terror Plan– Like the First Intifada
Palestinian Olympic Committee President Jibril Rajoub, who also heads the Palestinian Football Association, holds a news conference to update the media about challenges facing Palestinian sports ahead of the Olympics in Paris, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, June 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Jibril Rajoub yearns for the good old days of united Fatah-Hamas terror — like during the First Intifada — when more than 200 Israelis were murdered from 1987-1993.
Rajoub said that back then, there was proper organization and scheduling, even for a month ahead of time when “every civilian knew his role”:
The first Intifada was characterized by tight organization, the timing of daily activities, and the provision of a framework for all sectors of society. There were clear plans for 10 days, 20 days, and even a full month, during which every civilian knew his role. This planning helped the continuity of the popular movement and created a balance with the armed occupying power [i.e., Israel].”
[Palestinian daily Al-Quds, December 11, 2024]
Rajoub hopes that Palestinians will reinstitute such a golden age of organized violence and terror, saying that such an achievement is not out of reach:
Today, in the shadow of various methods of oppression, the same approach is still possible if the [Palestinian] factions will agree on a comprehensive national plan and clear plans … When the coordination between the factions will return and a clear plan of action will be provided to the people, we will be able to replicate the model of comprehensive popular resistance that gained international support and embarrassed the occupation [i.e., Israel] in the face of global public opinion…”
[Palestinian daily Al-Quds, December 11, 2024]
The Palestinian term “popular resistance” refers to individuals who murder Israelis using knives, rocks, Molotov cocktails, car rammings, and even shootings — as long as those responsible are not organized units. Hence the word “popular.”
So what must be done, in Rajoub’s view, to get to that point?
According to him, Palestinians must focus on what unites them — violence against Israel:
To revive this [first Intifada] model, the forces must agree on a common basis and focus on what unites and not what separates, and then the public will unify, and the leadership will restore the confidence of the street…
[Palestinian daily Al-Quds, December 11, 2024]
Rajoub’s most important message regarding what the new generation can learn from the First Intifada is that national unity can be achieved under figures such as arch-terrorists Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad, and Abu Iyad:
The central message is the need to restore the national unity and end the rift. In the first Intifada, the PLO led by [then PLO leader] Yasser Arafat, along with figures like [Khalil Al-Wazir] ‘Abu Jihad’ [i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125], [Salah Khalaf] ‘Abu Iyad’ [i.e., head of the Black September terror organization], and others, embodied the peak of cohesion and coordination with the popular will.”
[Palestinian daily Al-Quds, December 11, 2024]
The First Intifada used terrorism led by Arafat and other terror leaders from overseas.
Nevertheless, according to this senior Palestinian leader, it still “gained international support and embarrassed the occupation (i.e., Israel) in the face of global public opinion” because it successfully duped world leaders into believing that it was just a “popular” uprising rather than an organized campaign.
Rajoub now calls on Palestinians to unite using the same tactics. As opposed to perpetrating attacks like that of October 7, 2023, which was condemned internationally as organized terror, Rajoub believes Palestinians should continue murdering Israelis in disorganized terror to make it seem like it is “popular,” i.e., not being directed by the leadership.
And these are the people that many in the Western world keep funding and want to put in charge of Gaza.
Ephraim D. Tepler is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Itamar Marcus is PMW’s Founder and Director. A version of this article originally appeared at PMW.
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Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lays a wreath as he visits the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday.
The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as a bodyguard for Hezbollah’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. The source said Khalil had been on a religious pilgrimage to Iraq when he met up with a member of the Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada group.
They traveled together to Tehran and were both killed in an Israeli strike there, along with Khalil’s son, the senior security source said. Hezbollah has not joined in Iran’s air strikes against Israel from Lebanon.
Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada published a statement confirming that both the head of its security unit and Khalil had been killed in an Israeli strike.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September.
Israel and Iran have been trading strikes for nine consecutive days since Israel launched attacks on Iran, saying Tehran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it does not seek nuclear weapons.
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Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip
Israeli soldiers operate during a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, July 3, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet), announced on Friday the killing of Ibrahim Abu Shamala, a senior financial official in Hamas’ military wing.
The operation took place on June 17th in the central Gaza Strip.
Abu Shamala held several key positions, including financial officer for Hamas’ military wing and assistant to Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing until his elimination in March 2024.
He was responsible for managing all the financial resources of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, overseeing the planning and execution of the group’s war budget. This involved handling and smuggling millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip to fund Hamas’ military operations.
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Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
i24 News – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing unnamed Iranian officials. It is understood the Ayatollah fears he could be assassinated in the coming days.
Khamenei reportedly mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications.
Khamenei has designated three senior religious figures as candidates to replace him as well as choosing successors in the military chain of command in the likely event that additional senior officials be eliminated.
Earlier on Saturday Israel confirmed the elimination of Saeed Izadi and Bhanam Shahriari.
Shahriari, head of Iran’s Quds Force Weapons Transfer Unit, responsible for arming Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike over 1,000 km from Israel in western Iran.
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