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The Palestinian Authority Still Considers Massacre of Jews a Historic Act
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visiting the West Bank city of Jenin. Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah still rejoice over the murder of 37 Israelis in 1978.
Long before Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, the attack known as the Coastal Road Massacre was the most lethal in Israel’s history — and has remained the source of immense pride for Fatah, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ political party.
On the anniversary of the attack, Abbas’ Fatah glorified female terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the massacre.
As Palestinian Media Watch has documented, Mughrabi has been turned by the PA into a hero and role model for Palestinian society.
Her “heroic” act was leading a squad of Fatah terrorists in the hijacking of a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, which led to the murder of 37 civilians — of which 12 were children — and the wounding of over 70.
The PA and Fatah refer to the hours during which the terrorists took control of the Israeli bus and held its passengers captive as “the establishment of the Palestinian republic.”
The Fatah post calls murderer Mughrabi “the first president of the republic”:
Text on image: “Dalal Mughrabi and her comrades established the Palestinian republic”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
The image shows the ruins of the Israeli bus that was hijacked and detonated by Mughrabi and her terror squad.
Text on image: “The Martyr Kamal Adwan operation [name given to the Coastal Road Massacre]
March 11, 1978
The day that Fatah established the Republic of Palestine … It never mattered how long this Palestinian republic lasted, rather that it was established altogether. The first president of the republic was Dalal Mughrabi, and the Palestinian flag flew in the depth of the occupied land on a road 95 km long on the main road in Palestine [i.e., Israel]
Self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi died as a Martyr along with the squad members. Two of them, prisoners Khaled Abu Asba and Hassan Fayyad, were captured and [later] released in an exchange deal in 1983″ [emphasis added]
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
Text on image: “‘Know all of you [Israelis] that the land of Palestine is Arab and will remain so no matter how much your voices and your buildings rise on its soil’ — the last words of self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi before her Martyrdom.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 11, 2025]
The Palestinian Authority also marked the anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, describing in detail how Dalal Mughrabi joined Fatah and yearned to participate in a terror attack against Israel:
Yesterday was the 47th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi … She decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters [i.e., terrorists] in the Fatah Movement while still a student.
She took many military courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she trained with different weapons … She became known for her daring, her courage, her well-developed national sentiment, and for her devotion to Palestine and Fatah…
The [operation] plan was formulated by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ [i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis]… The self-sacrificing fighters competed among themselves to participate, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was 20. She was selected to lead the squad that would carry out the operation, which was made up of 10 self-sacrificing fighters.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2025]
Fatah’s Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University praised murderer Mughrabi as the one who traced “Palestine’s” borders “with her blood”:
Text on image and in post: “The 47th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of fighter Dalal Mughrabi, who outlined the borders of the homeland with her blood and wrote the praise of the self-sacrificing fighter with letters of light.”
[The Fatah Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, Facebook page, March 12, 2025]
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
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Israel Says Missile Launched by Yemen’s Houthis ‘Most Likely’ Intercepted
Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile fired from Yemen towards Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted,” while Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the launch.
Israel has threatened Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement – which has been attacking Israel in what it says is solidarity with Gaza – with a naval and air blockade if its attacks on Israel persist.
The Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group was responsible for Saturday’s attack, adding that it fired a missile towards the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis, who control most of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.
Most of the dozens of missiles and drones they have launched have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes.
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Iran Holds Funeral for Commanders and Scientists Killed in War with Israel
People attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel.
At least 16 scientists and 10 senior commanders were among those mourned at the funeral, according to state media, including armed forces chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami, and Guards Aerospace Force chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Their coffins were driven into Tehran’s Azadi Square adorned with their photos and national flags, as crowds waved flags and some reached out to touch the caskets and throw rose petals onto them. State-run Press TV showed an image of ballistic missiles on display.
Mass prayers were later held in the square.
State TV said the funeral, dubbed the “procession of the Martyrs of Power,” was held for a total of 60 people killed in the war, including four women and four children.
In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.
“Today, Iranians, through heroic resistance against two regimes armed with nuclear weapons, protected their honor and dignity, and look to the future prouder, more dignified, and more resolute than ever,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who also attended the funeral, said in a Telegram post.
There was no immediate statement from Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since the conflict began. In past funerals, he led prayers over the coffins of senior commanders ahead of public ceremonies broadcast on state television.
Israel launched the air war on June 13, attacking Iranian nuclear facilities and killing top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Israel, the only Middle Eastern country widely believed to have nuclear weapons, said it aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.
Iran denies having a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has said it has “no credible indication” of an active, coordinated weapons program in Iran.
Bagheri, Salami and Hajizadeh were killed on June 13, the first day of the war. Bagheri was being buried at the Behesht Zahra cemetery outside Tehran mid-afternoon on Saturday. Salami and Hajizadeh were due to be buried on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would consider bombing Iran again, while Khamenei, who has appeared in two pre-recorded video messages since the start of the war, has said Iran would respond to any future US attack by striking US military bases in the Middle East.
A senior Israeli military official said on Friday that Israel had delivered a “major blow” to Iran’s nuclear project. On Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that Israel and the US “failed to achieve their stated objectives” in the war.
According to Iranian health ministry figures, 610 people were killed on the Iranian side in the war before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday. More than 4,700 were injured.
Activist news agency HRANA put the number of killed at 974, including 387 civilians.
Israel’s health ministry said 28 were killed in Israel and 3,238 injured.
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Pro-Palestinian Rapper Leads ‘Death to the IDF’ Chant at English Music festival
Revellers dance as Avril Lavigne performs on the Other Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset, Britain, June 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
i24 News – Chants of “death to the IDF” were heard during the English Glastonbury music festival on Saturday ahead of the appearance of the pro-Palestinian Irish rappers Kneecap.
One half of punk duo based Bob Vylan (who both use aliases to protect their privacy) shouted out during a section of their show “Death to the IDF” – the Israeli military. Videos posted on X (formerly Twitter) show the crowd responding to and repeating the cheer.
This comes after officials had petitioned the music festival to drop the band. The rap duo also expressed support for the following act, Kneecap, who the BCC refused to show live after one of its members, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – better known by stage name Mo Chara – was charged with a terror offense.
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