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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “If the Palestinian cause will not be justly, comprehensively, and permanently resolved, at least on the basis of international legitimacy, at least on the basis of the UN resolutions, then Oct. 7”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Hamas is actually not connected to the Palestinian agenda and is not connected to the Palestinian people’s interests. Hamas is connected to its mother, and its mother is the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas...”

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “Oct. 7 [2023] came (i.e., Hamas’ attack and massacre). No one knows how it came, but the people of Gaza – men – erased Israel’s reputation as a state, [trampling] the Arabs’ heads with its boots, whose army is undefeatable, and the myth of [its]...”

PA: Hamas controls the ATMs, residents “lack cash to purchase goods” Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: “The residents are in a difficult mental state due to the lack of cash. We as PA public employees cannot receive our salary that has arrived in the banks because the people with...”

The video shows a news broadcast by Fatah-run Awdah TV Fatah-run Awdah TV host: “Hamas’ persecution of any party who is a source for distributing the [humanitarian] aid or securing it began from the start of the war (i.e., 2023 Gaza war), as Hamas persecuted well-known figures and teams of...”

Top PA official Rajoub: Israel is responsible for the October 7 massacre “[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:] “I would be happy if the entire Palestinian people would support Fatah, but there is a part of the Palestinian people that believes in Hamas. From my perspective, Hamas is...”

Official PA TV Head of PLO Department of Human Rights, Qassem Awad: “Under the leadership of the PLO, we stand firmly on the Palestinian principles, which our people have never given up on during more than 76 years of occupation (i.e., since Israel’s founding), that is the length of time of the...”

Official PA TV host: “You said that it is stamped on these products (i.e., humanitarian aid to Gaza) that they are not for sale. Then how are they [for sale] at sales points, stands, or stores? … They should not be for sale because they are aid products, but the resident is forced to buy the aid...”

The video shows Gaza Strip residents speaking. Woman 1: “We can’t take from the aid packages. They [Hamas] distribute them to certain people. I have sick people with me. I’m sick, my son has diabetes, my husband is sick… Woman 2: “They [Hamas] distribute the vegetables to certain people and not to...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Jan. 3, 2024 Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: We in the Fatah movement, from the leadership and its base, express our condolences to our people, to his family, to the Hamas movement, to all the Palestinian national...

Video:PA President Muhammad Shtayyeh: “When tyranny is a fact, rebellion against the tyranny is a duty. The Israeli tyranny is a fact, and the struggle (i.e., terror) against this tyranny is a right and duty. Mercy on the Martyrs who fell, and mercy on Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri (i.e., Hamas terror...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation (i.e., Israel) is the cause of every problem… Now more than ever, we need to end the matter of the internal [Fatah-Hamas] conflict. Our hands are extended, our hearts are open, and our...”

Al-Jazeera TV interviewer: “A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) showed Palestinian support for the resistance and a regression in the popularity of the PA, and [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas in particular. How do you view this, considering the fact that you have...”

PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “Hamas is a central component in the Palestinian political arena. Likewise, Hamas and Fatah are two pillars in the Palestinian national movement… We defended the Hamas Movement at the UN. When the UN wanted to define Hamas as a terrorist movement, we set out...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The continuation of the occupation (i.e., Israel) will lead to a response. The Palestinian response is the resistance to this occupation, resolve against it, and using all the legal meansto get rid of...”

Official PA TV, special broadcast on Hamas’ terror war on Israel – see note below; interview with Deputy Manager of the Saudi-affiliated UK-based paper Asharq Al-Awsat and Egyptian journalist Salah Jum’a Egyptian journalist Salah Jum’a: “There are disagreements between Fatah and Hamas, but there...”

Official PA TV narrator: “[The Palestinian refugees in the UNRWA refugee camps] are not all of the Palestinian refugees, as many of them have not registered themselves with UNRWA because they live outside its areas of operations, which only include the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, and...”

Former Israeli Arab Parliament Member Wasil Taha: “I personally accuse the Israeli establishment that is leading the organized crime in the Arab sector (i.e., the surge in Israeli Arab crime)… The issue of civil disobedience and raising [the subject] in these circumstances is appropriate, and it...”

Official PA TV program Female Palestinian Expatriates, hosting former PLO diplomat and engineer Raqiya Al-Ali who lives in Tunis Former PLO diplomat and engineer Raqiya Al-Ali: “The Palestinian women are among the strongest women in the world. Why? Because the yoke borne by the Palestinian women is...”

Official PA daily ridicules Hamas for its deceptive claims of resistance

Donia Al-Watan: Meeting of Fatah and Islamic Jihad is part of a plan to deal with the “murder of Palestinians” done by Israel

“The weapons and destruction should have been directed against the Zionist enemy, and not against this or that faction” announces Al-Ahmad

After his father was attacked in Jenin by Hamas members, Fatah publishes new pictures of Ra’ad Hazem in PA Security Forces uniform

Addas announces he need all the Palestinians to “unite around the PLO” to deal with the “crimes being committed” by Israel

Assaf “expressed his appreciation” for the “official [PA] media soldiers”