The Fatah terrorist organization, which has long demanded the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails, has added another terrorist murderer to its list: Tair Hamad, who perpetrated what many feel was the most professional terrorist attack of the entire Oslo War period.

On March 3, 2002, Hamad stood atop a mountainside above the abandoned Haramiye police station, between Ofrah and Eli, and coolly fired towards soldiers and civilians over a period of 40 minutes, murdering ten and wounding another ten. He was not caught for over two years.

The ten victims of that attack were only a small portion of the 131 who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists that month. Just a few weeks later, Israel initiated Operation Defensive Shield, temporarily wiping out much of the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria.

Fatah spokesman Jamal Nazal said that on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the attack, activities will be held calling for Hamad's release. Nazal said that Israel should remember that Hamad "refrained from aiming his fire at an Israeli vehicle in which an Israeli woman and three children were traveling."

In fact, however, among the ten dead were three civilians...