A Palestinian Policeman and a Terrorist

Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority made a solemn commitment to help the IDF suppress terrorists in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). These turn out to be promises more honored in the breach than in the observance. Again and again, Palestinian Authority policemen have not only refused to fight the terrorists plaguing Israelis; in many cases, they have turned out to be terrorists themselves. The latest example is Younes Walid Shtayyeh, a PA police officer who was shot dead after he fired at Israeli special forces. Far from apologizing for one of their policemen trying to murder Israelis, the Palestinian Authority has hailed Shtayyeh as a brave “martyr.” More on the policeman-terrorist can be found here: “Palestinian Authority police commit another terrorist attack,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, January 5, 2026:

When Palestinian Authority police officer and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror-wing member Younes Walid Shtayyeh shot at Israeli special forces and wounded an Israeli soldier near Nablus, it was not cause for self-scrutiny on behalf of the PA police. On the contrary, two days later, PA Police Commissioner Allam Al-Saqqa elaborated on the “professional police establishment, which acts as a law enforcement body.” He stressed that the PA police force “maintains security, public order, and morality,” a message the official PA TV reporter summarized by claiming the PA police are “loyal… to the law:”

PA Police Commissioner Allam Al-Saqqa: “[Our progress] emphasizes the integrative relationship between the State Prosecutor’s Office and the [PA] Police, through participation in enforcing justice in the criminal field, which is being protected by a skilled State Prosecutor’s Office that is striving to strengthen the rule of law, alongside a professional police establishment, which acts as a law enforcement body, operates in coordination with the State Prosecutor’s Office and under its supervision, maintains security, public order and morality, and fulfills its role within the framework of the law” …

Official PA TV reporter: “It was emphasized that the work does not deviate from the compass of protecting rights and freedoms, and that the loyalty of police employees and State Prosecutor’s Office employees to the mission of the law will remain the first guarantee for the Palestinian civilian that they will continue to be a source of security and a foundation for the [Palestinian] state.”

[Official PA TV News, Nov. 22, 2025]

According to PA ideology, there really is no contradiction between trying to murder Israelis and maintaining the law. Fatah and Hamas alike glorified the “operation” of police terrorist Shtayyeh, and after he was killed by Israeli forces, social media overflowed with praise for him….

No one in the Palestinian Authority apologized to Israel for yet another of its policeman turning out to be a terrorist. Nor did the Palestinian Authority at least have the decency to keep quiet about Younes Walid Shtayyeh. Instead, it hailed him as a hero, whom — according to his father — Allah himself had chosen to be a “martyr.” The Al-Quds Brigade, to which the “policeman” Shtayyeh also belonged, was full of admiration. And it went out of its way to note online that Shtayyeh was a “policeman” in the Palestinian Authority — the clear implication being that whatever the Palestinians pretend to the gullible Israelis, no matter what security role a Palestinian may pretend to take on, in the end they are all determined to kill the Zionists and, ideally, to become “martyrs” by murdering Israelis and then dying for the cause.

Remember, Walid Younes Shtayyeh was a policeman working for the Palestinian Authority, the pseudo-government that the world has been inveigled into believing is a trustworthy “partner for peace” with Israel. For attempting to murder Israelis, and being killed in the process, he has been hailed by the Palestinians as a “hero” and “martyr.” What more need be said?