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Official PA TV, broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by an unidentified preacher at a mosque in Nablus. Unidentified preacher: It is our duty to fight, confront, and carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict) in this land as much as we can. It is our duty to reject all the expressions of...

Text on screen: “Fighting commander Marwan Barghouti 18 years since the abduction (i.e., arrest) 25 years in the occupation’s prisons” Planner of murder of 5, Marwan Barghouti: “Fatah believes in the multiplicity of the types of struggle… It is the Palestinian people’s right to resist. It is our...”

Official PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech on Jan. 28, 2020

Member of Fatah Central Committee Abbas Zaki: "I'm against signing the Rome Statute (i.e., joining the International Criminal Court) as long as our country is occupied. If tomorrow you shoot, they’ll say you signed an agreement. This is not meant for people who want to liberate their country... I"

Fatah spokesman Ahmad Assaf: "Our membership in the UN is also a weapon. And that’s an important card. It’s a weapon that’s in our pocket. I didn’t use it on day one. I didn’t say, as soon as I got membership in the UN, that I want to go to the International Criminal Court - no. We’ve been waving..."

PA TV broadcast the movie ‘The appeal to the UN; secrets and hidden [facts]’ Part 1. The movie’s intro: “A clear objective and a legitimate right.”… “We chose the way and entered the conflict; we won and waved the name ‘Palestine.’ “Defiance, power, determination, the appeal to the UN; secrets and...”

Report on the Palestinian celebrations after UN vote granting the PA observer state status in November 2012. Boy: “We’ve come to identify with him [Mahmoud Abbas] and say to him: ‘Keep on going. We want the State of Palestine [UN state number] 194, and we won’t recognize Israel to the day we die!’”

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash delivers Friday sermon on PA TV. Habbash, referring to Palestine achieving non-member observer state status at the UN: “This achievement is the fruit of the blood of the Martyrs (Shahids) who over many decades fell defending Palestine and the...”

PA Chairman Abbas: "We went to the UN in order to obtain recognition as a state. The first time we weren't successful, but certainly - Allah willing - we will succeed the second time. We are a nation that deserves a state. We have all the foundations of a state. We have all the institutions of a..."

7 PA maps published in the 2 weeks following Abbas’ speech at the UN depict a world without Israel and deny Israel's right to exist. (Oct. 6, 2011)

PA TV News broadcasts interview with PA Chairman Abbas from Russia Today TV, an Arab TV channel in Russia: Abbas: "We went to the [UN] Security Council in order to ask for recognition of the State of Palestine as a UN member state. Since '47, since [UN] Resolution 181 which established two states –..."

PA TV spot shows a young Palestinian girl in a car going through an Israeli check-point. The girl dreams of a future independent Palestinian state, visualizing herself going through the passport control at a Palestinian airport. The logo for the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN appears...

The UN logo is shown as a puzzle missing a piece. The Palestinian flag in the form of a puzzle piece completes the UN puzzle. One of the two Palestinian anthems "My Homeland" is played in the background. Click to view video Click to view bulletin

The PA created a chair with the text "Palestine's Right. A full membership in the United Nations". The chair has been touring different capitals in the world and is supposed to arrive in New York on September 20. Translation of text: "We're going to the UN, carrying our seat in our hands." Click to...

PA TV broadcasts part of interview with Abbas from Turkish TV: Abbas: “We asked Turkey to help with some of the European countries, western Europe, and with some of the Latin American countries, and with Canada and the like – these are the countries which have not yet recognized the Palestinian...”