An Iranian television network, Al-Alam, broadcasts interviews with Fatah fighters in Gaza in which they ask Tehran for assistance in their efforts to attack Israel.
The fighters belong to the Gaza branch of Fatah’s armed wing — and recognized terror group — the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Palestinian Media Watch says.
Al-Alam interviews them from inside an attack tunnel in Gaza which they claim stretches 3.5 kilometers and opens inside Israel.
The fighters “said that the weapons in their hands and their preparations for confrontation with the Israeli enemy are what give them reason to live,” a narrator says, according to a PMW translation of the June 29, 2015 broadcast, which was also carried on the independent Palestinian station Wattan TV.
“We spend all our time trying to get money to fulfill our duty concerning our occupied lands and liberate them from the Zionist entity. This is why we are asking [for money]…especially [from] Iran, which is a known long-time supporter of the resistance and the Palestinian cause,” says one fighter.
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