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News flash on screen: "The [PA Ministry of] Religious Affairs condemns the invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by [Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar] Ben Gvir and describes this as a defilement of the Islamic holy sites." [Official PA TV News, April 3, 2025; PA Ministry of Religious Affairs,...

The criticism, however, is not for killing Israelis or holding them hostage

Mahmoud Al-Habbash speaks in language Palestinians understand

Ramadan and Jihad: PA’s top religious leader Highlights the two

PA Antisemitism led to Oct. 7

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are not in a temporary or limited battle against the occupation (i.e., Israel; refers to the 2023 Gaza war). Our battle is a battle of freedom, a battle of liberation from the occupation, and we...”

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...”

PA repeats lie about hospital bombing

PA: All mosques must teach that extermination of Jews is an Islamic imperative

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We will not leave Palestine. We will remain there as the olive tree remains… and they (i.e., the Israelis) will leave. They will leave… I bless you with a Palestinian blessing, a blessing of resolve...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “From the first day of their (i.e., the Israelis’) aggression, they have said that the Palestinian people- that the residents of the Gaza Strip must go towards Egypt (i.e., leave the combat zone). That...”

PA Ministry of Religious Affairs declares it is “forbidden” for any free Muslim to forget the terrorists in the holiday

PA Ministry of Religion’s instructions for mosque preachers

PA Minister of Religious Affairs meets with senior Syrian officials in Damascus

The PA issued a document instructing preachers to talk about terrorist Uday Al-Tamimi and use him for propaganda through religion

“There is nothing that harms Palestine and its holy sites more than making an alliance with the Jews”