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Official PA daily columnist Hassan Hmeid: “The West doesn’t surprise me at all (regarding the 2023 Gaza war). This West is white and blond, but it’s barbaric. It views the entire world as a jungle, and it’s the lord of this jungle, and can do whatever it wants. If it breaks a tree, no one says...”

Syrian writer Shahinaz Fakoush: “If the Palestinian woman had not raised her son to follow the path of Martyrdom and the path of loving the homeland, we would not be seeing all that is now in the Gaza Strip. Despite all the destruction, the child sits on the ruins of his home and the ruins of the...”

Columnist for official PA daily Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul: “Israel and the US have many types of weapons that [Israel] could use, in addition to having used many destructive types of weapons including white phosphorus and other types of weapons, and now [it is] in the war of starvation and annihilation,...”

Fatah official calls for Hamas-Fatah unity in “one government” during 2023 Gaza war Fatah Revolutionary Council member Tayseer Nasrallah: “We are all in the same boat. Hamas, Fatah, all the national action factions, all the members of the Palestinian people – we are in the same boat. If this boat...”

Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] are...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: ‘‘’Your best Jihad is Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic), and your best Ribat is in Ashkelon’ [Hadith]. Where is Ashkelon (i.e., Israeli city)? It’s the coast of...

Samer Jaber, father of terrorist Mahmoud Jaber: “Praise Allah, of course he [my son Mahmoud] asked for Martyrdom, and praise Allah he received it.” … Fathi Abu Zahra, father of terrorist As’ad Abu Zahra: “Let the Zionist entity always know: They kill one, 10 grow [in his place]. We are all a...”

Regular columnist for official PA daily Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul: “All the signs show that 75% of the bombings in the Gaza Strip (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war) are from the American aircraft carriers, in addition to how [US] forces are present on the ground, on the battlefield in the southern districts...”

Fatah Secretary in Austria Mundhir Mar’i: “The minimum that we can say about these Zionists is that they are the students of Adolf Hitler... They claimed that Hitler burned them [in the Holocaust]. They are committing the same act and more than this against our people in Palestine (i.e., 2023 Gaza...”

Fatah Ramallah Branch Representative Na’im Morrar: “We are united against this aggression (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas). We call on all our people to unite in the confrontation. Fatah’s promise to its Martyrs and its people is to be at the head of the resistance to the...”

PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf: “Since Oct. 7 (i.e., Hamas’ massacre on Israel) there has been a Zionist version that [Israel] has attempted to spread worldwide out of tendentious propaganda, [claiming] that there was murder of children, rape of women,...”

Official PA TV interviews Director of the Al-Haq Institute for Human Rights Sha’awan Jabarin – Al-Haq is a designated terror organization in Israel, see note below Director of the Al-Haq Institute for Human Rights Sha’awan Jabarin: “A topic [that] still isn’t clear… is the matter of those who...”

Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs with the rank of minister Qadura Fares: “This whole [Israeli] outcry and this whole campaign against the Palestinian people (i.e., Israeli response against Hamas) is based on a lie, which it took Israel 24 hours to create and formulate properly. They...”

Mother of terrorist Abd Yassin Maarik Jarban: “Praise Allah, he achieved Martyrdom, praise Allah, I’m proud of him, proud of all the Martyrs.” [Official PA TV, Nov. 15, 2023] Abd Yassin Maarik Jarban – 33-year-old Palestinian terrorist who was killed while participating in violent confrontations...

Official PA TV commentator Iyad Abu Zneit: “We [Palestinians] are first of all Canaanites, and therefore we have been in this land for many years... The Israelis are the ones who need to return to the lands they came from, lands throughout the world. Israel by its very nature is a foreign element...”

Official PA TV host: “We have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners on this path that is adorned with all kinds of resolve and adherence to the Palestinian land for more than 75 years. This occupation, Israel, will come to an end, regardless of how long it takes.”...

Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh: “As [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas noted at a conference and also before the Palestinian [PA] leadership, if we are left with one penny we will send it to the Gaza Strip. Neither [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu nor anyone else will stop us from...”

Fatah Secretary in Holland Zaid Tyam: “Our people in the Gaza Strip and our people in Palestine made us proud. I tell you, this blood is not spilled in vain. Greetings to the prisoners, and with Allah’s help, freedom is near Allah willing…. Greetings to every Palestinian mother, to every mother of...”

Crowd at the funeral of terrorist Ahmed Dababseh: “Leave the Martyr covered in his blood [during burial], and 1,000 blessings to his mother. Mother of the Martyr, congratulations, if only my mother were in your place.” Father of terrorist Ahmed Dababseh: “Praise Allah Master of the Universe, it is...”

Official PA TV reporter: “From the first day of the [Israeli] attack, some Western media outlets deliberately took action to side with Israeland adopt the occupation’s narrative by broadcasting fabricated pictures and video clips, which tell stories and tales spun from the imagination that there...”

The Palestinian Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab posted this video and text during Hamas’ terror war against Israel, urging West Bank Palestinians to carry out terror attacks against Jews Posted text: “West Bank, the Gaza Strip needs you” The animation shows a bald eagle perched on a mountain...

Fatah Secretary in Spain Ahmed Ma’arouf: “Let them [Israelis] learn from history: There is no occupier who remained, … The top priority is to strengthen the resolve of the Palestinian people on the Palestinian land, in order to continue to resist. The day will come when we will sweep away this...”

PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh’s speech from the start of a PA governmental meeting PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “We have owned this land for thousands of years, and Israel is a colonialist entity that occupied our land and expelled our people.” [Official PA TV, Oct. 23, 2023] Hamas...

Official PA daily columnist Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul: “Who established Israel? The capitalist Western states – the US and Britain and the rest of the European group – established it… They said: ‘We must find a foreign people to this [Middle East] region, because the possibilities of its revival, its...”

Lebanese university lecturer on Sociology Fida Abu Haidar: “The [Palestinian] resistance movements (i.e., terrorists) are the ones who cause [the occupation] pain… Because through the beautiful images they created, there was this wonderful entry (i.e., into Israel) by Hamas, a breach of the...”