Fatah council calls for 'escalation of unarmed resistance against Jewish state'
The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) completed three days of meetings on Saturday with an official call for “escalation of the unarmed resistance” against what it labels the “Israeli occupation.”
The powerful Fatah parliamentary body also urged other West Bank factions to join the resistance against Israel and called for the establishment of “popular resistance committees to confront the [Israeli] settlers’ aggression.”
In recent months radical Jewish settlers have stepped up attacks against local Palestinian residents.
In early August, the Israel Police arrested two Jewish settlers after Palestinian was killed during Arab-Jewish clashes in the West Bank.
The FRC also refers to Israel’s capital as “Palestine’s Eternal Capital” despite the fact that Jerusalem has never been the capital of any other nation.
Marouf Alrefai, a Fatah official in Jerusalem told the Times of Israel that Fatah leader, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “always called for peaceful popular resistance free from violence and the use of weapons.”
Abbas, however, has been criticized for his systematic antisemitic incitement, Holocaust denial and embrace of the controversial pay-for-slay policy that financially rewards the terrorists who murder Israelis and Jews.
The FRC will reportedly meet again on Dec. 17 to debate further action, including dialogue with rival factions.
“While Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are not formally invited — since it will be an internal PLO event — they may participate in informal dialogue or discussions, as happened recently in Cairo,” Alrefai said.
The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.
