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An official with the Palestinian Authority (PA) Fatah faction praised a terrorist who murdered two Jews in Jerusalem last month.

During a rally honoring terrorist Muhannad Halabi, Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen said “it is the right of our young men to cause Israeli women to cry like our women are crying, even though our women make sounds of joy after their sons’ and husbands’ deaths as martyrs,” the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency reported.

In the first of what would become a wave a deadly stabbing attacks in Israel, Halabi murdered two Israelis and wounded the wife and two-year-old son of one of them. Halabi was shot dead by security forces after he snatched a gun and opened fire on them.

Muhaisen said he “saluted the soul of (the) martyr, who detonated the Jerusalem intifada.”

Also speaking at the rally was Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Committee Member Omar Shehadeh of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) terror group, who said Halabi “represents an example and role model for generations of young.”

The PA municipality of Abu Qash, where the terrorist lived, unveiled a memorial to honor Halabi on the same road that it previously named after him. The PA has also named a youth soccer tournament after him.

The official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported that “a number of speeches were made praising the virtues of martyr Halabi, who died while defending Jerusalem and its free women, surprised the occupiers, and lay the foundation to a new phase in the Palestinian struggle to defeat the occupation.”

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