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Palestinian refugee Muhammad Khana: "[In 1948, the Arab] propaganda and media had a central role in us leaving. The media and propaganda, the propaganda [claimed] that there is a horrifying [Jewish] force coming." [Official PA TV, Source of the Story, May 13, 2025] Muhammad Khana left the abandoned...

Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: There are organized and armed gangs whose members are masked. They roam the streets and places where there are many sales stalls, stores, and warehouses, regardless of who owns these warehouses. Whether they belong to merchants or international...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The return [of the Palestinian refugees] – don't forget the return, don't forget the return. Not for me; I'm a refugee and all are refugees. I want to go, why not, this is my land. One day I will return, the right of return is a sacred right… Palestine is ours and..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The first priority is stopping the Israeli war of annihilation to which the Gaza Strip is being subjected (i.e., Israel's response to Hamas' Oct. 7 war). This really needs to stop. Every day there are hundreds of fatalities [in Gaza]. Why? 'Because we [in Hamas] don't..."

Official Fatah Spokesman in the Gaza Strip Mundhir Al-Hayek: "Israel wants us to clearly declare that we want to leave the Gaza Strip. We say it's an illusion. We stand before two alternatives, and they are the alternative of death or… migration. We have chosen the alternative of death in the Gaza..."

Official PA TV News on celebrations in Jordan of Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan Man from Jordan: "I am Palestinian and I love Palestine, and I say: Allah will grant us victory over the Jews. At the same time, I am Jordanian, my mother is Jordanian, and my father is..."

Director of the Al-Haq Institute for Human Rights Sha'awan Jabarin: "We believe that it is our people's right to enjoy freedom and independence, and it is the right of our refugees to return to their land and their homes, and I don't mean to return only to the 1967 [territories], but rather to..."

Uday in hiding: Farewell video shortly before his murder Uday Al-Raba'i: "I of course am done with this war, and now Hamas is attacking us. They want me, they want to shoot me. Before they wanted me and wanted to shoot me, they came to me recently also by surprise. A short while ago, they also shot..."

Video title: "A civilian in the Gaza Strip: Hamas gave the occupation (i.e., Israel) a golden opportunity to destroy the Gaza Strip" Unidentified Gaza citizen: "Hamas gave a golden opportunity to the Sons of Zion to continue killing. There is no health system. There is no education system, and the..."

Israel Spokesman and Israel Revolutionary Council member Jamal Nazzal: "Hamas is collecting taxes from this people that is being executed. [Hamas is] taking money and seizing the international aid. Whoever raises their voice – they shoot their legs in the street and amputate them with bullets..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "I ask the Hamas Movement: Come to the Palestinian national embrace, to the PLO. Hand over everything to the PLO. Hand over the Gaza Strip, the weapons, the [Israeli] hostages, and all the decisions..."

Director of Palestinian Center for Strategic Studies Muhammad Al-Masri: "Preserving the sole legal representative [the PLO], which is the national identity that unifies [us], is what can now shield and act as a mantle or umbrella to protect Hamas. This is a way out for it... If Hamas wishes to..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas should hand everything over to the PLO… Hand over the weapons, decision-making, [Israeli] hostages, and everything related to the Gaza Strip over to the PLO... We are talking about Hamas' exit..."

Video title: "Dr. Mahmoud Al-Habbash calls on Hamas through Al-Mashhad TV to hand over the Gaza Strip to the PA, nullify the occupation's (i.e., Israel's) excuses, and thwart the plan to eliminate the Palestinian cause" PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations...

International relations expert Dr. Khaled Al-Azi: "Hamas must accept the Arabs' proposals and the proposals of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and be part of reorganizing the Palestinian body, because if we have been following [the situation] from the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation (i.e., Oct. 7"

Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh: "If they (i.e., US and Israel) want to talk about something related to [Palestinian] migration (refers to 2025 Trump plan for Gaza), they should talk about the Palestinian people's right to return to its land and homes from which it was expelled. A large number..."

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "Allah is witness: There is no woman in the world like the Palestinian woman. The woman who makes sounds of joy for the Martyr and sings songs of the revolution for the groom (i.e., Martyr). This woman lets her son go to fight with a rock, and she gives..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "Today we present the Palestinian vision for dealing with the challenges [in Gaza]. We are working to achieve coordination on them among the Arabs. Here are the important principles: The State of Palestine will fulfill its role in the Gaza Strip through its governmental..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas is part of the Palestinian people. No one can deny this... We are all Palestinians, we are all in the Palestinian home... The door is open to everyone as Palestinians, civilians, participants in..."

Official PA TV host: "The Palestinian woman [Jochebed] vowed to God that she would give [her child] in her belly to serve in the Temple… She was disappointed when she had a daughter [Mary], because men [not women] serve in the Temple… and [still] her mother took her [Mary] to the Temple to fulfill..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "What we very clearly want from the Hamas Movement is for it to return to the Palestinian national fold, to the PLO, and that it will hand over the leadership of the Palestinian people to its sole..."

"Settlement affairs" expert Khalil Al-Tafakji: "The Palestinian people is paying attention to this point: That the issue of the 1948 Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the establishment of Israel) will not repeat itself. They will not leave the land and [believe] as the Arab states promised them [in..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Everyone knows and [Hamas] knows that it has failed for 18 years, during which it has ruled the Gaza Strip by force and plunged it into six deadly and destructive wars that claimed tens of thousands..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "My sincere advice to Hamas is that it should stay away from anything related to this issue [of rebuilding the Gaza Strip] or the future of the Gaza Strip. Hamas must admit in full sincerity that it..."

Released terrorist prisoner Qutaiba Musallam: "Just as we were fighting inside the prisons, the truth is you were fighting together with us. You and [official] PA TV, our national TV. You have been a window of freedom and a window of hope for the prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in the occupation's..."