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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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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
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Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.