Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | October 2024

12 Abdullah Kmeil, the governor of Salfit under the PA, stated that the Fatah movement “emphasizes the oath to the martyrs to complete the path to establishing the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital” and added the educational importance of the summer camp for its young activists. 13 During a summer camp activity in Salfit, the campers were taken on a tour of the cemetery in the Jenin refugee camp, where they learned about the terrorists from the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” of the Fatah movement and from the “Al-Quds Brigades” of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, who were killed in an Israeli military operation to eradicate terror in the refugee camp in 2023.

11 The PLO and Fatah movement organized summer camps in Judea and Samaria, some of which had a military focus. For example, at a camp organized by “Al-Shabiba,” the youth wing of the Fatah movement, in cooperation with the “National Security Forces of the Palestinian Authority” in Salfit, students were taught how to assemble and disassemble weapons, practice weapon hijacking, evacuate casualties in a simulated emergency, and learn about the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle.

Children and youth practicing weapon snatching in a Fatah summer camp in Salfit.

Kalashnikov rifles with blindfolds under the guidance of national security officers of the Palestinian National Security

Trainees at the summer camp in Salfit visiting the graves of martyrs in Jenin in the presence of Fatah’s branch secretary in Jenin, Atta Abu Ramila.

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