“When we see that the Palestinian Authority [PA] not only does not denounce the terror attack, but the Fatah movement of [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas is a partner in backing the terrorists, I think it’s clear we have no one to talk to and nothing to talk about. I hope it’s now clearer than it was in the past,” said Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. He spoke during a condolence visit to the family of border police soldier Hadas Malka, who was murdered on June 16 in a terror attack in Jerusalem.

Three organizations competed in taking credit for the attack, among them — for the first time — the Islamic State (IS), who dubbed the terrorists “soldiers of the Islamic State.” But a military source told Walla news that the attack was carried out by a local cell in a pattern similar to the terror attack wave of the so-called “individual intifada” that broke out in October 2015.

The reactions of the three organizations — Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and IS — are very interesting, but more interesting is the behavior of the Fatah movement. Fatah activists hung the movement’s flags on the roof of the home of one of the perpetrators, Osama Ahmad Mustafa Atta, a resident of the village of Deir Abu Mash'al near the West Bank city of Ramallah. An announcement posted by the movement on its Facebook page condemned the PFLP for what it claimed was an attempt to steal one of its sons and activists, whom it dubbed “a hero.”

“He should be credited with the glory of the movement,” according to the announcement. In other messages spread by Fatah activists, they claimed that “occupation forces” had executed the three assailants for no reason.