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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...

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]

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...”

Terrorists deserve to be paid -“they defended Palestine, that has been watered with the Martyrs’ blood” PA Tubas and Northern Valley District Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture Director Mu’in Sawafta: “First of all, the Israeli side is fighting us with the deducted [tax] money, because...”

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...”

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...”

Abbas’ advisor and Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: The Pharaoh of this period, America thinks it can do anything without any draw back, and without any consequences... America used its veto for the third time, to prevent the cessation of the war against our people in the Gaza...

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...”

Palestinian National Council member and Fatah Austria Branch Secretary Mundhir Mar’i: “Everyone knows that [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu has been winning the world championship of lies for 20 years. I compare Netanyahu to Goebbels, who was the Nazi propaganda minister who told Hitler: ‘Lie,...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash:[America] Satan of the period, the devil of the period, Antichrist of the generation, the plague of the generation, America... America, which is fighting today –, not only against the Palestinian people...

Since Oct. 7, Israel has imprisoned 6,540 Palestinian suspected terrorists and the PA is anxious to start rewarding them

Fatah Revolutionary Council member, former President Al-Quds Open University Younes Amr: Through the unity of our Canaanite Arab ancestors against all the invaders who came to our land –there were among them those who triumphed and ruled here, and there were those who were defeated, left, and moved...

Fatah Revolutionary Council member, Younes Amr: “Once America was described as the Great Satan. America speaks about democracy and human rights, while it sides with Israel in the strongest and largest bombings in the world for the sake of destruction (i.e., in the 2023 Gaza war).” [Official PA TV,...

Official PA TV Jordanian Medical Association member Mothafer Al-Jalamdeh: “Recently we saw a lot of doctors in the Zionist entity [Israel] who demanded that the occupation (i.e., Israeli) army kill even the wounded in the hospitals and we had an important role in noting the names of these doctors,...”

Brother of Terrorist Bassel Shahada: “Bassel (i.e., terrorist), along with his accomplices, friends and brothers, participated in an operation (i.e., terror attack) in the Eli settlement at a gas station, directed by [Hamas’] Al-Qassam Brigades.” … Father of Terrorist Bassel Shahada: “This...”

Palestinian father: I want my second son to die. The official PA daily posted a video on its Facebook page of an interview with the father of terrorists Muhammad and Wadi’ As’ous, who shot at Israeli soldiers Yasser As’ous, father of terrorists Muhammadand Wadi’ As’ous: “Allah chose my children...”

Official PA TV host: “There are Martyrs (i.e., dead terrorists) who had some of their organs stolen, as witnesses have said… Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares: “It is as if Israel has sworn not to leave even [one] shameful act and even [one] crime not committed. It wants...”

Israel uses diseases to kill maximum civilians in Gaza and commit genocide, claims official PA Daily

Israel uses diseases to kill maximum civilians in Gaza and commit genocide, claims official PA Daily

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...”

Official PA TV Live, broadcast of Friday prayers and sermon by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash at a mosque in Ramallah PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: You love Allah...

Official PA TV, interview with the father and grandmother of 14-year-old dead terrorist Yazan Akkoub, who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers Father of terrorist Yazan Akkoub: “Praise Allah, [my son Yazan] died as a Martyr. Allah will receive him as a Martyr, a Martyr of all Palestine... We are all...”

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...”