The Palestinian Authority (PA)

Five years of violent confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians

September 29, 2005 marked five years since the outbreak of the current violent confrontation with the Palestinians. Throughout the course of the confrontation, 26,159 terrorist attacks have been perpetrated against Israeli targets, leaving 1,060 Israelis dead and 6,089 wounded. Read more...

Albums and school notebooks imbued with messages of admiration for Palestinian martyrs (shahids), portraying them as role models to be emulated

Abstract Children and teenagers, who are often used as cannon fodder by the Palestinian terrorist organizations, are brought up in an environment instilling in them deep-rooted hatred and indoctrinating them with the “armed struggle consensus” against Israel. Part of this consensus is the portrayal of martyrs (shahids), including suicide bombers who perpetrated acts of Read more...

Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority fully recognize the threats posed to themselves by Hamas’ and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s civilian infrastructure that supports terrorism. However, they avoid taking decisive, on-going action to curb the phenomenon

General overview Seized documents supported by information acquired throughout the course of the violent confrontation prove that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority fully recognize the threats posed to themselves by Hamas’ and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s civilian infrastructure and financial system (the da’wa) and are fully aware of the support that infrastructure provides to Read more...