Commander of Gaza-Based Fatah Splinter Group: Fatah Is the Leader of the Armed Struggle

On October 5, 2019, Alkofiya TV (Gaza) aired a report about an October 3 graduation ceremony that was held at the Nidal Military Academy in the south of the Gaza Strip for the seventh graduating class of the Nidal Al-Amoudi Battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Abu Ahmad, the Commander of the Nidal Al-Amoudi Battalion, delivered a speech, saying that Fatah is the leader of the Palestinians' armed struggle, that it is the leader of martyrdom-seekers, and that it fired the first bullet and threw the first stone against Israel.

Anchor: The Nidal Al-Amoudi Battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades held the graduation ceremony of its seventh class, the Martyr Abu Ali Shahin Class, at the Nidal Military Academy in the south of the Gaza Strip last Thursday.

Abu Ahmad: To hell with all those who conspire and all those who surrender. They forget – or they pretend to forget – that Fatah is the leader of the armed struggle. It is the leader of martyrdom-seekers. It [fired] the first bullet and it [threw] the first stone. This is Fatah.