Fatah official says Israel responsible for today’s terror attack

The official Facebook page of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party quotes a party official saying that “Israel alone bears responsibility” for today’s deadly terror attack in Har Adar.

“Head of the Communications Office of the Fatah Movement’s Mobilization and Organization Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub said that Israel alone bears responsibility for the Palestinian responses to all of the occupation’s crimes, and that if it continues its incessant aggression against the Palestinian people, it can only expect more violence,” the group writes in a post, as translated by the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch.

“He added that the daily Israeli operations and the occupation’s violations against the members of our people everywhere are the reason for every cycle of violence.”

“Munir Al-Jaghoub: ‘Israel must understand well the consequences of the fact that it is continuing to push towards violence, and is continuing in the policy of destroying homes, forcing the migration of [Arab] residents of Jerusalem, the incessant invasions by the herds of settlers of the Al-Aqsa Mosque plazas with the reinforcement of [Israel’s] forces, and the murder of Palestinians in cold blood at its checkpoints that are spread over the territories that were occupied in 1967.'”