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Interview with Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares on independent Palestinian station Ajyal Radio. Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares: “[PA] President [Abbas] spoke again in a number of circumstances, even from the UN podium, about the...”

Father of terrorist: “There are tears of joy in my heart because my son achieved Martyrdom” Official PA TV News, on the death of terrorist Rabia Zakarneh, who participated in violent confrontations with Israeli forces. Father of terrorist Rabia Zakarneh:“I am mourning and my eyes are mourning, but...”

Two ministers in new Palestinian cabinet have made statements supporting terrorism Watchdog uncovers 2002 sermon by religious affairs minister in which he called Jews ‘pigs and apes,’ while women’s affairs minister honored terrorists who killed dozens of Israelis By Gianluca Pacchiani | 1 April...

Antisemitism, terror lauding ministers form part of new, 'revitalized' Palestinian Authority New expose by watchdog PMW reveals new officials’ history of vile antisemitic rhetoric and commendation of terrorist murderers By Ohad Merlin | April 1, 2024 As part of its fulfillment of the US demand for...

Biden Admin Hails 'Revitalized' Palestinian Authority. But New Ministers Support Murder of Jews. Andrew Tobin | April 1, 2024 The White House on Friday welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian Authority government, suggesting the West Bank-based PA was on track to take over administration of...

Top PA official Rajoub:The UN permits us to carry outarmed struggle Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:“Regarding the struggle,as a people under occupation we have a right to carry out all forms of struggleand resistance (i.e., alsorefers to use of violence and terror)...”

Top PA official Rajoub: Israel is responsible for the October 7 massacre “[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:] “I would be happy if the entire Palestinian people would support Fatah, but there is a part of the Palestinian people that believes in Hamas. From my perspective, Hamas is...”

Fatah Spokesman and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Jamal Nazzal: “In recent years, most of the Martyrs (i.e., dead terrorists) were from the [PA] Security [Forces] or from Fatah, and this has significance and meaning that everyone sees. The West Bank, in other words the PA, as you see is not in...”

By former member of US Congress DAVID WELDON "I was very disappointed to hear the comments from US Senator Chuck Schumer. He called for new elections in Israel now, in the middle of a war. Apparently, it was to resuscitate the “two-state solution” as part of the “peace process.”... Schumer would be..."

Official PA TV reporter in Nablus: “We are speaking about extremist settlers who receive their ideological education from rabbis who permit killing Palestinians and permit poisoning water wells.” [Official PA TV, March 20, 2024]

Interview with psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara about how to explain to Palestinian children about the 2023 Gaza war Psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara: “I tell [the children] that Palestine is a blessed land, and therefore they [Israelis] took it from us. That is how I explain the matter [of the war] to...”

The famed charity, through seemingly banal and aboveboard bureaucratic means, has been complicit in facilitating stipend payments to Palestinian terrorists — even after October 7. By Anthony Grant | March 19, 2024 File this one under iconic international charities with long-blemished reputations...

Father of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”: “Allah willing, we will meet [our son Uday] (i.e., terrorist) in Paradise of the Master of the Universe, and Almighty Allah will consider him a Martyr. Allah willing, he will be considered a Martyr, always attacking his enemy and never retreating.”...

Brother of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”: “He would take care of all the household needs. I told him: “Go on and get married” … He told me: ‘Actually I want the Dark-Eyed Maidens of Paradise.’ Praise Allah, Allah granted him Paradise, Allah willing he will see the Dark-Eyed Maidens of...”

Mother of terrorist “Martyr”:“I’m prepared to give all my children asransom for Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” Mother of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”:“I told him: ‘Get married, letme hold your child.’ He said: ‘Allah willing, in Paradise’.I thought he was justsaying that, and every time I...”

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...”

Sheikh Hamed Daraghmeh: “Thus says Allah, you [Israelis] have murdered, burned, slaughtered many, destroyed, caused [us] to flee in every direction, expelled, distanced the people from their homeland, but at the same time, ‘they (i.e., Israelis) will have the punishment of the Burning Fire [in...”

Sheikh Hamed Daraghmeh: “Thus says Allah, you [Israelis] have murdered, burned, slaughtered many, destroyed, caused [us] to flee in every direction, expelled, distanced the people from their homeland, but at the same time, ‘they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire [in Hell]’ [Quran 85:10]…...”

German online newspaper By Stefan Frank For the Palestinian Authority, the financial reward of Jewish murderers is more important than the medical care of its population. A hospital in Bethlehem has to reduce the number of beds because the autonomous authority does not pay its debts. “You love...”

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...”

Official PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas: “An extremist right-wing organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) prepared a report saying that the Red Cross fills out forms for the prisoners and they are submitted to the PA in order to pay salaries to the prisoners. Of course, the director...”

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,...”

Official PA TV Head of PLO Department of Human Rights, Qassem Awad: “Under the leadership of the PLO, we stand firmly on the Palestinian principles, which our people have never given up on during more than 76 years of occupation (i.e., since Israel’s founding), that is the length of time of the...”

Posted text: “#Watch: ‘A generation will come and [another] generation after it, we will destroy you, Israel!’ – a procession of small children in Jordan as a sign of solidarity with the children of the Gaza Strip (refers to the 2023 Gaza war; see note below -Ed.)” Dozens of Jordanian children are...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “It is not possible, if we are objective, to call the human Israeli component a ‘nation’. There never existed a Jewish nation nor a nation of Israel. They [Europeans] invented this issue in order to...”