Friday, October 28, 2022
Elder of Ziyon
Whenever incidents like this happen, before a terror group takes responsibility, Palestinian media (and even other terror groups) first respond by claiming that the IDF shot innocent civilians in cold blood.
Islamic Jihad called it a "cold blooded execution."
PA prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh called it "a heinous field execution committed by the occupation forces."
Then as more information started coming out that they were involved in an attack, the tenor of the responses changed.
The PFLP was cautious, saying they"were martyred in a new crime committed by the occupation" but implying that they were attacking at the time by saying "our people's response to the occupation and its aggression and the escalation of resistance against it proves the determination of our people to continue the confrontation until freedom and victory are achieved."
Then the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took explicit credit for the attempted attack, saying they shot at the IDF soldiers at point-blank range at 1:05 AM, a "zero-distance clash with the Zionist enemy at the Hawara checkpoint in the city of Nablus, and that all the usurpers and settler herds are targets of the battalion fighters, and that the battle is open with this usurper occupation."
So now the responses change from "innocent victims" to "heroic martyrs."
Hamas praised '"the two martyrs of the armed clash with the Zionist occupation forces."
The narrative changed on a dime.
Note that two members of the Palestinian Authority security forces were also terrorists for the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Either Mahmoud Abbas is too weak to enforce that his own security forces are not terrorists, or he supports it. Either way, negotiating with him for peace is impossible.
