8,000 Terrorist PA Security Forces Members Are Being Trained for Gaza

As the US launches the second phase of the 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip, one component that could guarantee that terror returns is the inclusion of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its terrorist PA Security Forces (PASF) to run Gaza.

Palestinian Media Watch has repeatedly exposed not only the fundamental terror role played by Fatah and the PASF, but also the repeated bragging by the PASF, PA, and Fatah officials about their primary role in terror.

Just this month, a senior Palestinian leader again bragged about the leading terror role played by Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah and the PA Security Forces:

Host’s question: “The Fatah Movement has effectively abandoned the armed struggle. What is your response?”

Fatah Central Committee member, Abbas Zaki:“This is slogan talk that does not reflect reality. Look at the [Palestinian] prisoners in the [Israeli] prisons before Oct. 7, 2023, most of them are from Fatah. Look at the lists of Martyrs and graves, most of them are from Fatah …

If Fatah had abandoned its struggle, it would not have such a large number of prisoners, which is equal to the total number of prisoners of all the other Palestinian movements, and even several times more than that of its rivals and competitors  … A large number of Security Forces commanders died as Martyrs and carried out special operations [i.e., terror attacks], and this is conclusive proof that this people, and this Fatah, cannot be easily contained or tamed.” [emphasis added]

[Arabi 21, London-based Arab news website, Jan. 9, 2026]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has explicitly stated that Israel won’t accept that either Hamas or the PA will rule Gaza.

Yet the PA’s official daily reported that Egypt is training up to 5,000 PA Police officers from the Gaza Strip to undertake “security tasks” there, after the end of the war.

Moreover, the EU plans to train 3,000 police officers from the Gaza Strip. According to the PA’s paper:

A senior Palestinian official revealed that police officers in the Palestinian [PA] police from the Gaza Strip are receiving training in Egypt to participate in a force that is supposed to take on security tasks in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced … that Egypt is working on a plan to train 5,000 Palestinian officers and security personnel in Cairo, in preparation for their deployment in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war.

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The Palestinian official clarified that those who recently underwent training will be part of a force comprising 5,000 police officers, all from the Gaza Strip but receiving their salaries from the PA.

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A senior European official in Brussels reported that the European Union (EU) intends to train approximately 3,000 police officers from the Gaza Strip outside the Gaza Strip. Since 2006, the EU has been funding a delegation to train the [PA] police in the occupied West Bank, with a budget of approximately 13 million euros (about $15 million) [parentheses in source].” [emphasis added]

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 1, 2025]

Similar information was reported on official PA TV by a Palestinian official, Ramzi Oudeh — that thousands of PA Security Forces members are training abroad for later, when they will “restore control” over the Gaza Strip:

Secretary-General of the International Academic Campaign against the Israeli Occupation and Apartheid Ramzi Oudeh: “The information I have, although unofficial, says that… there is a large number from the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces [such as] police forces that are training in Egypt and Jordan, and they may number in the thousands. They will return to the Gaza Strip and restore control over it. …

[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Nov. 23, 2025]

Letting the terrorist PASF rule the Gaza Strip would replace the Hamas terror organization with the Fatah terror organization — and this is proven by the PA’s own admission and bragging. If the US wants a quick solution, grabbing some available terrorists might create a perception of progress. But if the US wants a terror-free Gaza Strip, it will have to find another solution.

The author is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.