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Monday, July 03, 2023

Zachary Foster has become a popular anti-Zionist tweeter in recent months, to the point of becoming essentially a troll more interested in scoring points than in facts.  (Before he blocked the terrific Adin Haykin, they had a number of entertaining exchanges.)

Yet in the past, I have found his scholarly papers to be very interesting and illuminating, and they tell a story that does not at all support the current Palestinian lies about their history. Sadly, he seems now to be more addicted to "Likes" than to the truth. 

A 2011 unpublished master's thesis by Foster also upends current Palestinian lies, especially from Rashid Khalidi.

The period 1914-1923 is what, the most influential of these writers, Rashid Khalidi, has called the “critical years,” in his widely-praised  award-winning work on the subject, Palestinian Identity. He argues that as a result of the “rapid, momentous, and unsettling changes” from the outset of World War I in 1914 to roughly 1922 or 1923, “the sense of political and national identification of most politically conscious, literate and urban Palestinians underwent a sequence of major transformations. The end result was a strong and growing national identification with Palestine.”  Importantly, Khalidi writes, this full-fledged national loyalty was felt by a “significant proportion of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine”and by 1922, “important elements of the country’s Arab population had already come to identify primarily with Palestine” (my emphasis). He adds that the “most common self-description of political groupings during the mandate was as Palestinian Arab.”....Although Khalidi might like to think that “no one” could possibly dispute the widespread existence of a Palestinian identity during this thirty year period, with careful attention to evidence rather than hyperbole and polemic, I believe we can gain a much more accurate understanding of precisely when, how and why a unique Palestinian identity became widespread.
Foster then demolishes Khalidi, showing that he primary identification of Palestinian Arabs before the 1936 revolt were with their cities, or with Syrians/Egyptians or Arabs in general. 

Foster uses interesting analysis methods to come to this conclusion. For example, "not a single book was written on the history of Palestine out of sheer passion and love for Palestine until the 1930s. As we stated previously, this is in complete contrast to the city histories – all of which seem to have been written out of the authors devotion and love for the hometown." And then, "In 1936 and 1937, alone, eight books were published on the Palestine issue, more books than had been published in the preceding sixteen years combined. If the historical works are a guide to identity in Palestine, then, it seems that the major shift from city to Palestine did not obtain until the mid-late 1930s."

This is also fascinating (I put footnote text in parentheses):
The other major work on Palestine in the pre-1936 period is al-Barghouthi and Totah’s Tarikh Filastin, but, as previously mentioned, this was written at the behest of the British authorities to be used in the Mandatory education system. To be sure, this does not make the book irrelevant for the study of Palestinian identity. It does, however, suggest that it was not necessarily a natural idea for an Arab intellectual to pen a book on “the History of Palestine” in 1923.(Indeed, Totah wrote his Ph.D dissertation on the history of Arab education. Palestine is a totally irrelevant analytical category in his dissertation, as discussed above.)  And, indeed, this point is reinforced throughout the text, such as in their etymological discussion of this place we now call Palestine. Four names are offered which have historically been used to describe the region, Filastin being merely one of them. (The other three are ‘ard kana’an, ‘ard al-mi‘ad, and al-‘ard al-muqqadisa.)

Those translate to the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land and the Holy Land. Foster doesn't mention that Khalil Totah was a Christian Quaker; while he was born in Ramallah his view of Palestine was through the lens of the Bible rather than as an Arab. It is curious that Foster doesn't spend more time talking about how religion was a more important marker of identity than being a citizen of "Palestine" as well.
 
As far as identifying as Palestinian, Foster notes,
While Filastin emerged as a geographical, social and political space by the 1920s, it seems that “al-‘Arab” (the Arabs) or “al-Muslimin” and “al-Masihiyyin” (the Christians) were still preferred over “al-filastiniyyin” (the Palestinians) throughout the Mandate period to describe the region’s inhabitants. Very rarely is the word Palestinian used to describe the people of the region, who instead preferred to describe themselves, their culture, their land and their people as Arab.

One reason that Foster doesn't mention is that Jews at the time enthusiastically identified as Palestinian, and Palestinian Arabs - especially the literate ones who were espousing nationalism - didn't want to be identified with the Jews.  

Foster, quite reasonably, uses "loyalty" as a metric to see whether nationalism was more important to Palestinians than their hometowns or Arabness (he also seems to ignore clans, which were much more important in how Palestinian Arabs self-identified.) I'm still not convinced that most Palestinian Arabs identified as being loyal to Arab Palestine even into the 1940s. Here's why.

Foster is only looking at written texts of the time for evidence of loyalty. While literacy soared in Palestine between 1900-1948, a significant number of Palestinians, especially in rural areas and villages, were still illiterate in 1948, and there is no evidence that they identified with "Palestine." Moreover,  Arab actions during the 1948 war speak louder than the printed word that Foster relies on. While many defended their own towns, practically none defended anyone else's town - they fled along with their own community members. There was no loyalty to, or sacrificing for, an Arab Palestine.  The loyalty Foster sees is the written loyalty of intellectuals, a theoretical loyalty that they were trying to instill in their readers, not a reflection of actual loyalty that would make one fight for and die for one's country. 

Indeed, it was the Arab intellectuals who fled the fastest in 1947-48.  While the Jewish Palestine Post took heroic measures to ensure that it would put out a paper every day even during the worst fighting and when its own building was bombed, the Arab newspapers in Jaffa and elsewhere simply stopped publishing when the war reached them.




Last issue of "Falastin", blaming the British for Arabs fleeing Jaffa



So while Foster proves that loyalty to Arab Palestine was close to nonexistent before 1936, he doesn't go far enough because of his reliance on written materials as evidence of "loyalty" without keeping in mind that the loyalty espoused was more theoretical and prescriptive than real. It ignores the larger context that includes the people whose mindset hadn't changed for centuries. These were Arabs who easily moved from one part to another of the Arab world for economic reasons or because of wars, who did not accept the Western division of the region with arbitrary borders as relevant to their lives, and who thought that they could migrate to other Arab areas in 1948 as many of their ancestors migrated to Palestine - never dreaming that their fellow Arabs would refuse to accept them and treat them as brothers upon their arrival. 

Their identity as Palestinians was forged largely because of their mistreatment by the rest of the Arab world and its refusal to integrate them in their own societies in the 1950s, not from the Arab intellectuals of the 1910s or 1930s who created a new nationalism as a response to Zionism. The shame of their being so badly mistreated by their own people is what fuels the desire to create theories after the fact of a pre-1948 Palestinian identity, an identity that was extraordinarily weak.





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Monday, January 23, 2023

Last week, at an impromptu checkpoint, IDF soldiers pulled a young man out of his car. His father, Ahmed Kahla, leaped out of the car (Haaretz' words) towards the soldiers. Fearful that they were being attacked, the soldiers shot the father, killing him.

The IDF investigated and determined that lethal force was not necessary, and that the soldiers' stories about what happened - that Kahla tried to grab one of their guns, or tried to stab them - were not accurate.

So far this year, there have been 18 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank. In nearly all of the cases, the person killed was actively involved in hostilities when killed and/or was a member of a terror group.  (Given that there are millions of Palestinians and, at most, only several thousand members of terror groups in the West Bank, the chances that terror group members were not involved in hostilities and were coincidentally killed is quite small.)

Here is what most of those killed looked like: 


Adin Haykin has been keeping track of the deaths and the circumstances/affiliations.

Notice that two of those pictured here are children (#1 and #8.)  There have been four child terrorists killed this year, three of them PFLP and one Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades. That story, that terror groups are actively recruiting and training children, is simply not reported anywhere. 

The case of Ahmed Kahla is the exception that proves the rule - the IDF tries as much as possible to only kill those who are directly attacking at the time, which is the vast majority of those killed. Moreover, the deaths are investigated, the investigations are done by high level authorities and the IDF will admit when their soldiers violate policies and kill without enough justification. (The last time the IDF admitted to have made a mistake was in December.)

Soldiers are under intense pressure, knowing that they are targets 24/7. They often have to make split second decisions as to whether they are being attacked and from where. And, crucially, they know that if they make a wrong decision, not only could they be responsible for the death of an innocent person, but they may face investigations.

The media typically does not report on most of these cases of actual gunmen attacking soldiers; far more often they will just report a tally of those killed and imply that most of them were uninvolved civilians.  

But as we have seen, well over 90% of those killed are very involved and active in hostilities when killed. And in Arabic, their "heroism" is celebrated.






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Monday, October 31, 2022

On October 29, AP reported:

The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Tor Wennesland told the U.N. Security Council that “mounting hopelessness, anger and tension have once again erupted into a deadly cycle of violence that is increasingly difficult to contain,” and “too many people, overwhelmingly Palestinian have been killed and injured.”  
What Mr. Wennesland, and the media at large, ignores is that the overwhelming majority of those killed were in the midst of violent actions at the time, and most were members of armed terrorist groups. 

Adin Haykin has been maintaining a huge Twitter thread of those killed this year, with photos and documentation. The real story isn't the record number of Palestinians killed, but the number of Palestinian attackers.  

Nearly all those killed were either in the midst of attacking or were members of known terror groups. Out of 121 killed (one died of a heart attack,) I only count six who might have been innocent - killed while the IDF was going after attackers, or one killed when he ignored warning shots and kept approaching the soldiers, for example. As his documentation shows, even most of the women and children killed this year were in the midst of attacking Israeli soldiers or civilians. (Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh is very much an anomaly in this list.)

This is a year of attacks unprecedented since the second intifada. And Israel has no need to apologize for killing the terrorists before most of them manage to reach Israeli civilians. 

One other data point: before May 2021, the number of attacks using small arms were quite small, only a couple a month. The number of shooting attacks tracked by the Shin Bet have dramatically increased since then; here are the statistics over the past 12 months:



And here's the trend of Palestinian pipe bombs tracked by the Shin Bet:





This is what the UN and the media are not telling you. 

Here is Adin Haykin's thread:

1. Bakir Muhammad Musa Hashash
Hamas
opened fire on IDF troops
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2. Falah Musa Shaker Jaradat
attempted a stabbing attack
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3. 'Omar Muhammad 'Abd al-Majid As'ad
reportedly died of a heart attack hours after being released from detention
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4. Adham Jamal 'Abd a-Rahim Mabrukah
5. Ashraf Muhammad 'Abd al-Fatah Mbaslat
6. Muhammad Raed Hussein Dakhil
A cell of the Islamic Jihad that was eliminated on the way to a terrorist attack
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7. Muhammad Akram 'Ali Abu Salah
was a military operative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
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8. Nihad Amin Yunes Dar al-'Is (Barghuthi)
rioter
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9. Muhammad Rizaq Shehadeh Salah
killed after throwing Molotov cocktails
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10. Ahmad Hikmat Ahmad Seif
Fatah operative, threw Molotov cocktail
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11. Shadi Khaled 'Ali Nijm
12. 'Abdallah Ahmad Diab al-Husari
PIJ operatives
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13. 'Ammar Shafiq 'Issa Abu 'Afifah
reportedly ran away from a soldier's interrogation
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14. Yamen Nafez Mahmoud Khanafsah
DFLP, threw Molotov cocktails
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15. Karim Jamal Muhammad Isma'il al-Qawasmi
stabbed policemen
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16. 'Abd a-Rahman Jamal Muhammad Qassem
Hamas stabbed 2 Border Police
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17. 'Alaa Muhammad 'Abd al-Qader Shahham
rioter
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18. Nader Haitham Fathi Rayan
PIJ operative
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19. Sanad Muhammad Khalil Abu 'Atiyyah
20. Yazid Nidal Sa'ed a-Din a-S'adi
PIJ operatives
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21. Ahmad Yunes Sidqi Atrash
Hamas, threw Molotov cocktails
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22. Khalil Muhammad Khalil Taleb
23.Seif Hifzi Muhammad Abu Libdah
24.Saaeb Taysir Muhammad 'Abahrah
PIJ operatives
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25. Hanan Mahmoud 'Abd a-Ra'uf Khaddur
Killed in the exchange of fire of the Islamic Jihad that eliminated:
26. Ahmad Naser 'Abd a-Rahman a-S'adi
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27. Muhammad Hussein Muhammad 'Adel Qassem
PIJ operative
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28. Ghadah Ibrahim 'Ali Hassan
She was shot at the legs after she spring towards the IDF soldiers who told her to stop
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29. Muhammad 'Ali Ahmad Ghneim
Fatah rioter
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30. Maha Kazem 'Awad a-Za'tari
stabbed a Border Police officer
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31. Qusai Fouad Muhammad Hamamreh
Fatah operative
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32. Muhammad Hassan Muhammad 'Assaf
PLO rioter
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33. Shaas Fouad Nayef Kamamji
34. Mustafa Abu al-Rab
PIJ
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35. Shaukat Kamal Abed,
Fatah operative,
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36. Lutfi Ibrahim Lutfi Labadi
Fatah 
operativeImage
37. Ahmad Muhammad Fathi Masad
An Islamic Jihad 
operativeImage
38. Yihya 'Ali 'Abd al-Hafez 'Udwan
Fatah
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39. Mahmoud Sami Khalil 'Aram
infiltrator
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40. Mu’tassem Muhammad Atallah
Hamas attempt stabbing
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41. Thaer Khalil Muhammad Mislet
rioter
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42. Shireen Nasri Anton Abu Akleh
A journalist who was killed in an exchange of fire between the IDF and the Islamic Jihad
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43. Dawood Muhammad 'Abd a-Rahman Zbeidi
Jenin commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
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44. Amjad Walid Hussein Fayed
PIJ operative.
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45. Gheith Muhammad Rafiq Ziad Yamin
rioter
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46. Zeid Muhammad Sa'id Ghneim
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade
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47. Bilal Rafiq Tawfiq Qabha
Islamic Jihad 
operativeImage
48. Ghufran Harun Hamed Warasnah
attempted stabbing
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49. 'Odeh Muhammad 'Odeh Sadqah
Fatah threw a Molotov cocktail
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50. Samih Jamal Muhammad 'Amarneh
PIJ operative
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51. Mahmoud Fayez Mahmoud Karajah
rioter
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52. Yusef Naser Hassan Salah
53. Baraa Kamal Ahmad Lahlouh
54. Layth Salah Muhammad Is'id (Abu Srur)
Islamic Jihad cell
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55. Nabil Ahmad Salim Ghanem
Fatah infiltrator
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56. Muhammad 'Abdallah Salah Suliman
Fatah
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57. Muhammad Maher Nafe'a Mar'i
PIJ
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58.Kamel 'Abdallah Kamel 'Alawneh
Hamas
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59. Rafiq Riyad Rafiq Ghanam
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades operative
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60.'Abd a-Rahman Jamal Suliman Subuh
61. Muhammad Bashar Nimer 'Azizi
PIJ
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62. Hussein Hassan Ibrahim Qawariq
called on to stop moving toward their location and fired warning shots into the air. When he failed to heed their warnings, he was shot.
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63. Amjad Abu Alia,
planned riot
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64. Derar Riad Saleh al-Kafrini
PIJ
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65. Muhammad Ibrahim Kamal al-Shaham
Attempted stabbing
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66. Ibrahim al-Nablusi
67. Islam Sabouh
68. Hussein Jamal Taha
PIJ
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69. Mu’man Yassin Jabber
rioter
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70. Salah Tawfiq Sawafta
Injured during a riot
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71. Wasim Nasser Abu Khalifa
PIJ
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72. Muhammad Arayisha
A Fatah al Aqsa Martyr's brigade operative
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74. Fadi Ghattas
Stabbing attack
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75. Taher Muhammad Zakarna
PIJ
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76. Yazan Afana
77. Samer Khaled
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade operatives
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78. Muhammad Musa Muhammad Sabaana
PIJ
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79. Haytham Hani Mubarak
used a hammer to attack a soldier
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80. Younes Ghassan Taya
PIJ
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81. Hamad Mustafa Abu Jalda
al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
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82&83. Ahmad and Abdelrahman Abed
Fatah
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84. Odai Trad Hisham Salah
PIJ
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73. Nidal Jum'ah 'Abdallah Ja'afrah
Stabbed civilians with a screwdriver
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85. Muhammad Abu Juma'a
stabbing attack
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86. Mohamed Abu Kafia
Fatah, car-ramming attack
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87. Saed al-Koni,
Al Aqsa Martyrs "lions" brigade
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88. Abed Hazem
89. Ahmad Alawnah
90. Mohammad al-Wanna
91. Tarek Al-Shaqfa

Al Aqsa Martyrs brigades
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92.Basel Qassem Basbous
93. Khaled al-Anbar
Fatah, ramming attack
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94. Muhammad Hashem Abu Naaseh
PIJ
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95. Fayiz Khaled Damdum
Threw Molotov cocktail and IED
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96.Mahmoud Al-Sous
97.Ahmed Dagharmeh
PIJ operatives
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98. Alaa Zaghal
Al Qassam "lion" brigade
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99. Mahmoud Samudi,
PIJ rioter, was hit along with 88,89,90,91
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100. Osama Adawi,
Hamas rioter
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101. Mehdi Ladado
DFLP rioter
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102. Salama Rafat Sharayah,Fatah rioterImage
103. Adel Ibrahim Adel Daud
Hamas rioter
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104. Majahed Ahmed Muhammad Daud
Fatah activist
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105. Mateen Chabaya
PIJ operative
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106. "The doctor" Abdullah Ahmed Abu teen

Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade operative
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107. Kis Emad Ahjala
Hamas operative
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108. Udai Tamimi
Committed multiple shooting attacks. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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109. Tamer al-Kilani
"Lion's Den" commander
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110.Ali Antar
111. Ham Uday Qayam
112 Wadi al-Huh
113. Ham Uday Sharaf
114. Mashal Baghdadi
"Lion's Den" and Fatah operatives
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115. Salah al-Rahim Briki
PIJ operative
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116. Mahmoud al-Tamimi
Threw IED
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117. Rabi Arfa Rabi
Hamas infiltrator
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118. Muhammad F Uday Nouri
Fatah rioter
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119. Imad Abu Rsheid
120. Ramzi Sami Zabara
"Lion's Den" and PA security force opretives
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121. Mohammed Kamel Jabari 

Committed a shooting attack in Kiryat Arba which killed one Israeli
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122. Barakat Mousa Odeh
Car ramming attack twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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