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Official PA TV program Giants of Endurance, on the death of Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoner Khader Adnan, who died due to his hunger strike; hosting released prisoner Alaa Al-A’araj, who was held in administrative detention and released as a result of his hunger strike – PMW was unable to...

An unidentified speaker is giving a speech at the funeral of terrorist Muhammad Awad Abu Kafya in Beit Ijza village, northwest of Jerusalem. Unidentified speaker: “This people will not be defeated. A people in which a mother accompanies her Martyr son with sounds of joy will never be defeated. A”

PA endorses Jenin terror hub as “Allah’s choice” that the city is a gushing spring of Martyrs and Martyrdom” Official PA TV filler shows violent confrontations and funerals of dead terrorists in Jenin Narrator: “Hello Jenin, hello to your heroes… Jenin is exporting freedom to the world, and...

Fatah posts cartoon honouring elderly man who died while participating in a violent riot, depicting him as an angel and a tree, and saying that he is happy to have died as a "martyr"

Mahmoud Al-Habbash calls Arab protester, killed while participating in a violent riot, a "popular symbol, who embodied the Palestinian people’s greatness and its resistance to the thieving occupation" and said Allah rewarded him with the martyrdom-death "he asked for"

"Every day we will grow a tree, every day we will grow a Martyr. We love all the Martyrs, we are loyal to the Martyrs, for we are standing firm on this land. We are planted in this land. We’ll die standing here, and we won’t surrender."

Headline: “Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim: “The occupiers are doomed to disappear, and the future is ours” “Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim said: ‘The occupiers are always doomed to disappear, and the aggressors are doomed to the dustbins of history. The attempt to scare us and...”

Official PA TV, video of song (not part of any program) in honor of the Fatah movement: “Fatah the Revolution” The video shows a boy carrying a rifle and the camera focuses on him. At the same time, the following lyrics can be heard: “Eilabun calls to us loudly, we the people of Fatah have come,...”

Al-Kitab TV host: “Dear viewers, we must talk about the high number of Martyrs (Shahids) in Palestine compared to the number of dead Israelis. This is an indication of the violence and tyranny of the Israeli occupation. It’s true that the occupation kills many of us and they become Martyrs, but the...”

Sheikh Muhammad Abu Sa’ada, sermon at the Abdallah Azzam Mosque in Gaza. Posted on the mosque’s Facebook page. Sheikh Muhammad Abu Sa’ada: “The Al-Aqsa Mosque awaits its Mujahideen (i.e., Jihad fighters), and its Martyrdom-seekers. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is waiting, and it knows that even if the...”

Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, Tareq Al-Suwaidan: "Without a doubt, the blood being spilled [in Gaza] is dear. But the equation is Those killed from our side are in Paradise, and those killed from their side in Hell. (Hadith) We are not afraid of Martyrdom. Not long ago, you cried out..."

Hamas leader Muhammad Deif: "Today you [Israelis] are fighting divine soldiers, who love death for Allah like you love life, and who compete among themselves for Martyrdom like you flee from death." Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: "We love death like our enemies love life! We love Martyrdom, the way..."

Official PA TV program A Creator and Time hosted director Muhammad Al-Qadi and showed a scene from a play directed by him, entitled “This far and no further” showing a confrontation between a Palestinian girl and Jewish settlers. Settler: “If you talk [too] much and don’t leave this land, I will...”

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning broadcast a report on the national mass wedding in Gaza. The PA organizes mass weddings once a year to help young people who don't have the means to hold a wedding celebration on their own. The program hosted Fatah Central Committee member Amal Hamad...

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “I say, from a position of responsibility, not a centimeter of Jerusalem will be liberated unless every grain of Palestinian soil is soaked in the blood of its brave people. For Jerusalem doesn’t need negotiations, because negotiations will not bring...”

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri: "You [Israel] think that we will be afraid of your killing policy and of these threats. We say to you: This policy is futile when dealing with leaders like Hamas leaders. Hamas leaders seek Martyrdom. You scare us with what we love (death). The commander, the great..."

On Nov. 14, 2012, Israel launched an aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip called Operation Pillar of Defense, with the aim of crippling the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and protecting Israeli civilians from Hamas rocket fire. Hamas released this video as part of their campaign to scare Israeli...

PA schoolbook: “O heroes, Allah has promised you victory... Don't talk yourselves into flight… Your enemies seek life while you seek death. They seek spoils to fill their empty stomachs while you seek a Paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth... Death is not bitter in the mouth of the...”

PA schoolbook: The Shahid (The Martyr) “I shall carry my soul in my palm and toss it into the abyss of destruction... And then either a life that will gladden friends, or a death that will enrage the enemies.. By your life! I see my death, but I hasten my steps towards it... By your life! This is...”

Hamas member of Palestinian Parliament (Legislative Council), Fathi Hammad: "For the Palestinian people death became an industry at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human..."

Hamas commander Raed Sa'ad sums up the distorted educational values that have been successfully instilled in the Palestinian younger generation.

Ibrahim Mudayris, Official, PA Ministry of Religious Trusts and Religious Affairs: “We are not like you, because we do not desire life. If you threaten to kill President Arafat, we will pray to Allah: ‘Grant the president Shahada (Martyrdom) for you."’ Yes, we do not pray - like other preachers...”"

"Allah, who created them [Jews], and knows their nature well, knows that they love life. (Quran:) "You will find them the greediest of all people for life." It doesn’t matter what kind of life. It doesn’t matter if that life is in disgrace, or submissiveness and shame. But they will be greedy for..."

Palestinians, who present death as the highest value, see Israel’s love of life as a weakness to be exploited in battle. “The way must be found to be rid of this Zionist enemy. The practical solution came from the weakest of Arabs states, Lebanon, which rose up to turn into the strongest of Arab...”