Terrorist groups praise award by Abbas government
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The Palestinian Authority granted honorary citizenship to two Arab terrorists who killed Israelis, including 2-year-old and 4-year-old girls.
Samir Quntar of Lebanon and Sultan Al-Ajaluni of Jordan are serving life sentences in Israeli prisons, but the announcement of their honor was met with praise by many Palestinian groups, according to Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW.
PMW pointed out the honor was granted by the Fatah-led government of Mahmoud Abbas. The terrorist group Hamas, which gained a majority in parliamentary elections last month, has not appointed a new government yet.
The terrorist Palestinian Liberation Front, through general secretariat member Wasil Abu Yusuf, praised the award as "an act of dedication to their struggle and their heroic suffering in the occupation's prisons, reported the daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida last Wednesday.
PMW commented: "Societies measure their heroes in different ways. Some societies honor athletes or performers. Others celebrate caregivers and humanitarian workers. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have consistently chosen to honor murderers as their national icons."
In 1979, Quntar murdered Danny Haran and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat. Haran's daughter Yael, aged 2, suffocated while hiding from the attack in a crawl space with her mother. Quntar is serving multiple life sentences totaling 542 years in prison.