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Fatah could then unite with Hamas to “besiege” Israel through “comprehensive popular resistance”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "More than 70% of the civilians living in the Gaza Strip are refugees whose families were expelled in 1948 during the Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the establishment of Israel). They were expelled..."

Al-Habbash's solution is to deny Israel's right to exist

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Over 70% of the residents of the Gaza Strip are Palestinian refugees who arrived in 1948 from historical Palestine (i.e., Israel). A simple, practical, and just solution that will lead to peace is..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Over 70% of the Gaza Strip residents are refugees. The only place that these refugees could set out towards from the Gaza Strip is-" Al-Hadath TV host: "The West Bank." Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "-their..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "If [US President] Trump wants to solve the overpopulation problem in the Gaza Strip, he should know that over 70% of the Gaza Strip are Palestinian refugees who took refuge in the Gaza Strip during..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "These ideas [of US President Trump], beyond the fact that they constitute a violation of international law, aggression against human rights, and an absolute war crime, above all constitute a threat to..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "These plans [of US President Trump] and talks... are liable to seriously harm the security of the region's states and the security of the region in general, especially the Arab states, and..."

Voices unheard: Palestinians themselves recount how they became refugees

"Salameh calls for general mobilization to fight any decision to eliminate UNRWA"

"My father decided to move away the children in the family"

"Shtayyeh: UNRWA is the memory of the Palestinian people and we must protect them until the return of the refugees"

"Palestinian-Syrian agreement regarding the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria being stations on the road back to Palestine"

This new Palestinian Media Watch video compilation adds important evidence to help clarify this question of historical importance. (May 16, 2018)

Headline: "The members of our people in Lebanon emphasize that they stand behind the [PA] president" "The members of our people in the refugee camps in Lebanon emphasized that they stand behind [PA] President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas. The entrances to the refugee camps were decorated..."

This speech was actually given by PA Foreign Minister Ryad Al-Malki in the name of Abbas. However this is not mentioned in the WAFA article or in the next day’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. A last minute change might have caused a change in speakers. Headline: “[PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas]: Despite the...”

“PLO Executive Committee member Zakariya Al-Agha called on Jordan and Lebanon to reevaluate their decision to bar Palestinian refugees uprooted from Syria from entering [their countries], and to allow them to enter their territories (i.e., Jordan and Lebanon’s) in order to ease their suffering. He...”

“President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday [July 3, 2013] that the Palestinian refugees are guests in Lebanon and [that they] will not interfere in its internal affairs. In a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart [President of the Republic of Lebanon] Michel Suleiman, the President...”

Headline: “ [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] rejected Israel’s condition for the entry of Palestinian refugees from Syria” “[PA] Presidential Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina announced yesterday [May 21, 2016] that President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the condition set by Israel for the entry of Palestinian...”

Abbas: "The [Arab] Liberation Army retreated from the city [Safed in 1948], causing the [Arab] people to begin emigrating."

Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Palestinian Journalist: "The leaders and the elites promised us [refugees] at the beginning of the "Catastrophe" in 1948, that the duration of the exile will not be long, and that it will not last more than a few days or months, and afterwards the refugees will return to their..."