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Wed, April 6, 2011 | The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

The photo in the PA daily shows the PA minister handing the family an honorary plaque from the PA. Terrorist Al-Sayid's name and the PA logo are visible on the plaque. In the photo the rest of the print is too small to read. (Source: PMW/© Palestinian Media Watch – www.palwatch.org)

PA Minister Gives Award to Family of Senior Hamas Terrorist

Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Gives Award to Family of Terrorist Who Planned the Suicide Bombing Attack at the Park Hotel.

Issa Qaraqe, Palestinian minister of prisoner affairs, visited the families of the prisoners who are currently on a hunger strike. One of the families was that of Abbas al-Sayid, a senior Hamas operative who planned the Passover suicide bombing attack at the Park Hotel and dispatched the suicide bomber. Abbas Al-Sayid is serving 30 life sentences for planning this attack. During his visit he presented the family with an award (Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, March 29, 2011).

The suicide bombing attack on the Park Hotel was carried out on the night of the Passover Seder, March 27, 2002. Twenty-nine Israeli civilians were killed and 140 wounded, when a suicide bomber entered a hotel in Netanya and detonated his bomb during the Passover Seder dinner, the last straw which led to Operation Defensive Shield, whose objective was to stop the Palestinian terrorist campaign against Israel.

PA TV (Fatah), March 27, 2011. (Source: PMW/© Palestinian Media Watch – www.palwatch.org)

“Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake, and a delegation from the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs visited the home of [the family of] prisoner Abbas Al-Sayid in Tulkarem. Al-Sayid has maintained an unlimited hunger strike for the past 21 days, and has been transferred from solitary confinement at the Ramon prison to solitary confinement at the Israeli hospital in Ramle. Karake warned of the severity of prisoner Al-Sayid’s condition, following a deterioration of his health in the wake of the strike. He placed the responsibility for [Sayid’s] life and health upon the Israeli government and the prison administration, and called for a response to the demands for an end to his solitary confinement, which has continued for over six months, in difficult conditions.”

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 29, 2011]