Ahead of Bahrain conference, US special envoy condemns Fatah threats

US special envoy Jason Greenblatt condemns a youth group of the Palestinian faction Fatah, which threatened terror attacks in response to the US-led economic peace conference in Bahrain opening Tuesday.

“As the US gov’t works to improve Palestinian lives thru an exciting economic vision for the future, Fatah threatens an intifada, attacks & to ‘make the ground burn under the feet of tyrants.’ How sad for those Palestinians who do not support this ugliness,” he tweets.

https://twitter.com/jdgreenblatt45/status/1143215934963953666

He is citing the secretary general of the Shabiba Fatah youth movement, who warned: “Shabiba… is prepared for every eventuality, and its members who ignited the first Intifada and the Al-Aqsa Intifada are still capable of making the ground burn under the feet of the tyrants,” according to a translation by the Palestinian Media Watch NGO.

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