A senior Palestinian security official praised the group behind most of the recent terror attacks against Israel. The Al Aksa Brigades, a militia of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, has carried out most of the deadly suicide bombings and shootings in Israel and the West Bank in recent weeks. Security chief Jibril Rajoub, generally considered a moderate on the Palestinian spectrum, said Monday that the group represented “the noblest phenomenon in the history of Fatah.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
