Fatah calls stabbing attack

"self-sacrificing operation"

PA TV calls attack "stabbing operation":

"As part of [their] policy of incitement,

Prime Minister of the occupation Benjamin Netanyahu...

placed responsibility for the stabbing operation

on President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."

Hamas-controlled Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza:

"A morning of homeland and freedom,

a morning of the knife's point of the rebel for Palestine"

by Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Following yesterday's stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, when a young Palestinian stabbed and wounded more than a dozen people in a bus in Tel Aviv, Abbas' Fatah movement posted the following text on Facebook, referring to the terror attack as a "self-sacrificing operation" (amaliya fida'iya in Arabic):

Posted text: "Urgent! Self-sacrificing operation in Tel Aviv: A knife attack inside a bus. Reports of the wounding of 10 Israelis and the wounding of the man who carried out the operation from Israeli police fire. The area has been sealed off and the Israeli police is conducting an extensive search in the area."

[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page", Jan. 21, 2015]

The Hamas-controlled Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza praised the attack with the following text on its Facebook page:

"A morning of homeland and freedom, a morning of the knife's point of the rebel for Palestine"

[Facebook page of the Hamas-controlled

Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza, Jan. 21, 2015]

Official Palestinian Authority TV reported on the terror attack, calling it a "stabbing operation" and accused Israeli Prime Minister of "incitement" for blaming the terror attack on the ongoing incitement by PA and Fatah. Palestinian Media Watch has documented the ongoing incitement by both Fatah and the PA, including the recent explicit promotion of stabbing attacks :

Official PA TV newsreader: "According to Israeli sources, the person who carried out the stabbing operation in a bus in Tel Aviv was a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem... As part of [their] policy of incitement, Prime Minister of the occupation Benjamin Netanyahu and the party leaders in Tel Aviv placed responsibility for the stabbing operation on President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."

[Official PA TV, Jan. 21, 2015]

The following is a longer excerpt of PA TV's news broadcasts following the attack:

Official PA TV News hourly broadcast

Official PA TV newsreader: "As part of [their] policy of incitement, Prime Minister of the occupation Benjamin Netanyahu and the party leaders in Tel Aviv placed responsibility for the stabbing operation (i.e., the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv) on President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu claimed that the stabbing operation was the result of the PA's incitement against Israel. Sixteen Israelis were wounded, 6 of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the heart of Tel Aviv. According to Israeli sources, the person who carried out the stabbing operation in a bus in Tel Aviv is a resident of Tulkarem. The sources added that the Israeli police arrested the man after wounding him with a bullet to the leg."

Official PA TV News (longer edition)

Official PA TV newsreader: "Sixteen Israelis were wounded, 6 of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the heart of Tel Aviv. According to Israeli sources, the person who carried out the stabbing operation in a bus in Tel Aviv was a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem. The sources added that the Israeli police arrested the man after wounding him with a bullet to the leg. As part of [their] policy of incitement, Prime Minister of the occupation Benjamin Netanyahu and the party leaders in Tel Aviv placed responsibility for the stabbing operation on President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."

[Official PA TV, Jan. 21, 2015]