On October 1, 2001, Tafik Tirawi, Palestinian head of Intelligence in the West Bank district of the Palestinian National Authority, was asked on The VOICE OF PALESTINE Radio at 8 a.m. about Israel’s demand to that he arrest terrorists, according to a list that Israel Foreign Minister Shimon Peres handed to Yassir Arafat on their September 26th meeting in Gaza.

Tirawi responded by saying that “there are no terrorists. We will arrest no one. Those who open fire on Israelis are not terrorists. It is the Israelis who are terrorists. We say to the Israelis that your state is the terrorist state that opens fire on our people. You are first requires to arrest your settlers and soldiers. We gave you a list of real terrorists whom you have yet to arrest… Arik Sharon used terror in killing at Deir Yassin, killing Egyptian prisoners, killing Palestinians in Sabra/Shatilla.

On Thursday morning, October 4th, the VOICE OF PALESTINE radio newsreel of the Palestinian Authority reported the shooting attack on the Givat Zev-French Hill road inside Jerusalem in which a young couple were badly injured as an attack against two illegal settlers on the illegal settler road inside Jerusalem.

In its newscasts throughout the day on Thursday, October 4, the VOICE OF PALESTINE radio newsreel of the Palestinian Authority reported that Israel has positioned Christian troops from the Southern Lebanese Army at all checkpoints and at all key positions. While the VOICE OF PALESTINE radio newscaster did indeed broadcast Israeli denials of such, the VOICE OF PALESTINE repeated the news item on each broadcast, with the claim that Israel Prime Minister Arik Sharon has positioned the SLA troops in preparation for another Sabra and Shatilla massacre, reminding the Palestinian Arab public of what occurred in Lebanon in September, 1982,(when Sharon was the Israel Minister of Defence and Israel’s Christian allies in Southern Lebanon killed civilians in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in retaliation for the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel). VOICE OF PALESTINE specifically alleges that SLA troops were abusing Palestinian Arab women at IDF checkpoints.