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The PA Covers Up a Murder, While Hamas Celebrates It and Offers Congratulations
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia November 23, 2021. Photo: Sputnik/Evgeny Biyatov/Kremlin via REUTERS
A few days ago, a Palestinian terrorist veered his truck into an Israeli soldier and murdered him.
Hamas immediately glorified the “heroic” murder, while the Palestinian Authority (PA) just as quickly covered up the murder as a “car accident” and libeled Israel for “executing” the terrorist driving the truck.
You can see a video of the murder below (viewer discretion is advised; the Israeli man’s death is visible on screen).
After seeing the evidence, who do you believe?
Here is Hamas’ praise of the murderous attack:
“The heroic car ramming operation… led to the killing of an [Israeli] soldier and the wounding of others”
“A natural response to the occupation’s [i.e., Israel’s] crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank”
“A new heroic operation that joins the record of our resistance”
“The perseverance of the resistance’s operations … proves the resistance’s ability to kill the enemy”
“Indeed this is jihad; victory or Martyrdom”
[Hamas, Telegram channel, Sept. 11, 2024 — emphasis added]]
Here is a trasncript of the PA TV’s news report denying the attack:
The occupation forces opened fire at Palestinian truck driver [Hayel Deifallah] … and claimed that he carried out a car ramming operation, but eyewitnesses claim that it is more likely that what happened was a car accident…
This is the [Israeli] version we always hear: That the driver of the car or truck carried out a ramming attack, and [the Israelis] immediately execute the driver on this pretext. [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Sept. 11, 2024]
Palestinian Media Watch has reported numerous times on the PA’s denial of terror attacks and their presentation of them as Israeli “fabrications.”
The PA has even denied Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, in which terrorists murdered approximately 1,200 people.
Itamar Marcus is Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.
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Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Block Trump Deportations of Anti-Israel Protesters
Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights.
The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeks a nationwide temporary restraining order to block enforcement of two executive orders signed by US President Donald Trump in the first month of his term.
The lawsuit comes after the detention of a Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent US resident of Palestinian descent, whose arrest sparked protests this month.
Justice Department lawyers have argued that the US government is seeking Khalil’s removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” Rubio on Friday said the United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days.
Trump vowed to deport activists who took part in protests on US college campuses against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian terrorists.
The ADC lawsuit was filed on behalf of two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who say their activism and support of the Palestinian people “has put them at serious risk of political persecution.”
“This lawsuit is a necessary step to preserve our most fundamental constitutional protections. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression to all persons within the United States, without exception,” said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the ADC.
Chris Godshall-Bennett, the group’s legal director, said the litigation seeks immediate and long-term relief “to protect international students from any unconstitutional overreach that stifles free expression and deters them from fully engaging in academic and public discourse.”
The lawsuit centers on three Cornell University plaintiffs: a British-Gambian national and PhD student with a student visa; a US citizen PhD student working on plant science; and a US citizen novelist, poet, and professor in the Department of Literatures in English.
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Netanyahu Informs Shin Bet Chief to Vote on His Dismissal Next Week
Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security agency, that he will bring a vote before his government to dismiss him next week.
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Houthis Claim to Attack US Aircraft Carrier, Retaliating for Strikes
Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 2, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Houthis claimed on Sunday that they targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other vessels in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the US-led attacks against the Houthis on Saturday comprised of more than 47 airstrikes on seven governorates, with the death toll expected to rise.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing the Houthis “will continue to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.”
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