Fayyad Says ‘Stop Using Palestinian Cause to Justify Terror’

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Extremists must stop using the Palestinian cause to justify their acts of violence, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a French Jewish school.

"It is time for these criminals to stop marketing their terrorist acts in the name of Palestine and to stop pretending to stand up for the rights of Palestinian children who only ask for a decent life," the Palestinian premier said in a statement.

His remarks came as French Special Forces in the southern city of Toulouse were locked in a tense stand-off with a self-declared Islamist militant of Algerian origin believed to have carried out Monday's attack.

He has told officials that he attacked the school and killed three Jewish children and a teacher to avenge Palestinian children killed in the conflict with Israel.

Speaking to reporters, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the suspect had told police he wanted "to avenge Palestinian children and to attack the French army."

In Monday's attack, the gunman opened fire on a group of parents and children at Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse, killing a 30-year-old teacher and his two sons, aged four and five, as well as the seven-year-old daughter of the school principal.

Fayyad heaped condemnation on the attack.

"This terrorist crime is condemned in the strongest terms by the Palestinian people and their children," he said. "No Palestinian child can accept a crime that targets innocent people."

French investigators believe the suspect also killed three soldiers in two separate shootings in the same area last week.

The soldiers were French citizens of North African origin, while another who was critically wounded was black and from the French West Indies.

Comments 3
Default-user-icon John (Guest) almost 13 years

A mind boggling statement by Fayyad. Isn't the hole Palestinian cause going rond the "armed resistance"? note Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PRC, PFLP et al. charters who call for terror and murder in the name of the Palestinian cause.

Pathetic statement by a man caught in the spotlight of world condemnation toward Islamic terrorism.

Default-user-icon The Truth (Guest) almost 13 years

Should have told this to people from the 1960s onwards.

Missing realist almost 13 years

where was your nasralah when gaza was bombed to oblivion in 2008?? he denied all responsibility for any rocket fired from lebanon, he was too buzzy doing 3ashura. After your support for the butchering of syrians your paper of toot has fallen, Nkashaftu man.