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WATCH: Fatah lauds Munich Olympics massacre: ‘Black September stunned the world’

Twelve German snipers ... opened fire on the self-sacrificing fighters. Five of the self-sacrificing fighters became martyrs, and three were arrested.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks to leaders of the now-collapsed Palestinian unity government between his Fatah Party and Hamas in Ramallah on June 2, 2014. Credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks to leaders of the now-collapsed Palestinian unity government between his Fatah Party and Hamas in Ramallah on June 2, 2014. Credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90.

Text on screen:

“The time: Sept. 5-6, 1972 The place: Germany, Munich – the Olympic Village The number: 8

Commander of the operation: Mahmoud Nazzal ‘Che’

The goal: Capturing Israeli hostages to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners

The plan: Breaking into the Israeli delegation’s quarters in the Olympic Village

The self-sacrificing fighters demanded the release of 200 Arab prisoners in the Israeli prisons Israel refused to comply with the demands of the self-sacrificing fighters

10:15 p.m.: Two helicopters with the self-sacrificing fighters and the hostages took off... An ambush had been laid for them at the airport

Twelve German snipers ... opened fire on the self-sacrificing fighters Five of the self-sacrificing fighters became martyrs and three were arrested All the 11 members of the [Israeli] delegation were killed (sic.) The Black September group stunned the world and made it hold its breath for more than 12 hours in Munich Fatah TV production.”

Visuals onscreen: The eight terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre Salah Khalaf and Arafat Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir Abu Daoud, mastermind of the Munich massacre

Fatah posted this video with the following text on Facebook: “The 46th anniversary of the heroic operation (hashtag)Munich (i.e., terror attack, 11 murdered) (hashtag)The_symbols_of_the_Fatah_Movement_Lebanon (hashtag)Be_strong_and_brave_homeland.”

The Munich Olympics massacre - a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Palestinian terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in which they murdered 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.

Muhammad Daoud Oudeh (Abu Daoud) - Member of the terror organization Black September and mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre

Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s deputy, one of the founders of Fatah, and head of the terror organization Black September. Attacks he planned include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973). It is commonly assumed that his assassin, a former Fatah bodyguard, was sent by the Abu Nidal Organization, a rival Palestinian faction.

Facebook page of Fatah TV, Sept. 5, 2018 (1 min)

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