Fatah honors female suicide bomber on Facebook
Official account also posts video montage of female terrorists responsible for the deaths of over 70 people
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah organization recently honored a female suicide bomber on its official Facebook page.
A photo-shopped image of bomber Zainab Abu Salem was uploaded to the page on the popular social network. The image included a picture of the Temple Mount compound and the emblem of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing. It was first reported Sunday by Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks the Palestinian media.
The upload was accompanied by text that invoked the female suicide bomber’s headscarf: “After the operation, Martyr Zainab’s head was severed from her body, while her hijab (religious headscarf) continued to cover her hair. With this she became the eleventh female martyrdom-seeker in Palestine.”
According to the post, Abu Salem, 18, hailed from the Askar refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. She detonated herself after she was stopped and searched by Israeli security forces in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, killing two border policemen and injuring 30 civilians.
Fatah recently stirred up controversy after releasing a video that honored Abu Salem and eight other female terrorists. The musical montage, which was set to a series of pictures of the bombers and scenes of the destruction they had caused, including dead Israeli civilians, is set to a song that honors the legacy of the women and depicts Abu Salem’s decapitated head next to an Israeli security barrier.
Israel and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority were engaged in US-sponsored peace talks until negotiations fell apart in April. The two sides have yet to agree to meet again.