Fatah calls slain teens ‘soldiers’

In its first reaction to the kidnapping ordeal that ended tragically yesterday with news of the three teens’ deaths, the Fatah movement described the victims as “soldiers” rather than students, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) says.

The movement, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, posted on Facebook photos of grieving Israelis coupled with the caption: “Israelis crying over the three killed soldiers, whose bodies, according to Israeli claims, were found this evening in Hebron, 19 days after they disappeared.”

PMW adds that throughout the search for the teens and their captors, Fatah celebrated the kidnapping on its official Facebook page, even depicting the three as mice caught on the hooks of a fishing rod, with a caption that read “Masterstroke.”