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Commentator Faisal Tahboub: "The extremist Israelis or this [Israeli] government, together with the religious Jews and settlers, are attempting to prove that they have a status in the Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount). The final goal is destroying the Noble Sanctuary and actually building..."

Official PA TV "Israeli affairs expert" Rasem Obeidat: "[The Jerusalem Day celebrations aim to] disseminate the Torah-based and Talmudic Jewish narrative regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque (i.e., the Temple Mount), [including] denying the identity of Jerusalem's Arab residents by severing their..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is an inseparable part of our religious faith, our national identity, and our presence that has lasted thousands of years on our historical homeland Palestine, is being subjected to the most abhorrent plot by the occupation (i.e.,..."

Official PA TV narrator: "Immediately after East Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Old City [of Jerusalem] fell into the hands of the occupation (i.e., Israel), the Israeli excavations began… Excavations continued in all the areas adjacent to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, above and below ground,..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The Palestinian people's existence has not been cut off, it has not been cut off for the past 6,000 years, since the time of the Canaanites, and even before the Canaanites. We have been in this land..."

Egyptian Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: "Historically speaking, the Jews have no right to [the land], since historically speaking, they were not the first to settle in it, and there are no remnants of theirs in its territory. Also religiously speaking, the Muslims have full ownership..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "We have been living in this land for over 6,000 years. The Palestinian people is the one that created the civilization and history of this land. It is the one who built all the cities in most of the..."

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "The Israelis built their lie based on the Holocaust. What is happening in the Gaza Strip? That's a holocaust… Same formula and same means...The grandchildren of the victims of the Holocaust are the ones who are perpetrating a holocaust in Gaza."...

Advisor to Head of The Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Ayed Morrar: "If an opportunity was given to the expansionist occupation (i.e., Israel) to settle in Egypt and Jordan they would not miss the opportunity... There is no religious or emotional connection between a resident (i.e.,..."

Official PA TV host and Jerusalem researcher Fakhri Abu Diab: There are many antiquities under the ground in Silwan, which testify to the identity of this community. It contains Canaanite, Byzantine-Roman, and of course Arab-Islamic relics. Thanks to its proximity to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the...

Director-General of the PA Ministry of Culture and Antiquities in the Nablus District Dirgham Al-Fares: "The Palestinian people are a direct continuation of the original inhabitants from the Stone Age to the present (sic., see note below). The Palestinian people were pagan, who worshipped El, Baal,..."

PA Nablus District Governor Ghassan Daghlas: "We say to the world that we have antiquities. We have a history, and we have an existence [from] before the occupation arrived. The occupation wants to falsify the narrative and falsify the antiquities, and we say to the world that the occupation is..."

Syrian political commentator Husam Shuaib: "Those who remain today in Palestine as occupiers are Talmudist foreigners who stole the name ‘Israel,' and with this name they succeeded in marketing a religion with which they are not in fact affiliated, but they convinced the West that they are..."

Official PA TV host: "The sadism of the invaders is embodied in [the Jews.] They are the heirs of Zionist criminals [from Zionist leader] Herzl to Jabotinsky and until [Israeli President] Weizmann. The list of crime extends until reaching war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu. All this..."

Palestinian Writers' Union General Secretariat member Talal Abu Afifa: "These Jews, ever since they arrived in Britain in the 18th century… at the start of the 20th century, they began to constitute a problem for Britain. Especially because the Jews, wherever they settle, they try to take control..."

PA Security Forces Maj. Gen. (ret.) and national security expert Ahmed Issa: "Israel is the only state that was not established by its people on its land. It was established through theft, and it is a product of a large colonialist project led by the colonialist states under the leadership of..."

Official PA TV broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by an unidentified preacher at a mosque in Ramallah Unidentified preacher: "O Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings soon. O Allah, purify our land of the filth of the occupiers. O Allah, remove them, O Master of the..."

PLO Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva Ibrahim Khreisheh: "Israel is an occupying state, and it needs to end its occupation… We as a Palestinian people have been suffering from this occupation for 57 years until now... Now they (i.e., Israelis /Jews) are talking..."

While the tank is seen going up in flames, a voice is heard saying in Arabic: "The soldiers were incinerated inside it." Text on screen: "Produced by the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] – publicity division" [Hamas, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2024] The video includes a song commemorating the...

PA Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Sa'id Yaqin: "There is no future for the Arab nation as long as this colonialism is on the homeland. It is impossible – [in light of] this foreign, barbaric, murderous, oppressive entity (i.e., Israel) that is humiliating humanity with these measures – that..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure Islamic right. It is an exclusive Islamic waqf for Muslims (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment), and it is an exclusive right of the Muslims… At the UN podium, [PA]..."

Official PA TV host: "Genocide is the other face of the Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) Zionist teachings that are based on eradicating the Palestinian people through systematic massacres and mass murder and erasing the milestones of its physical, cultural, and intellectual existence on the land of..."

Fatah Secretary in Holland Zaid Tyam: "We did not attack anyone (sic., Hamas initiated the 2023 Gaza war). They [Israel] are attacking us, and they are harassing our people…" Senior Fatah official Jihad Ramadan: "The doctrine of the Zionist movement is a doctrine of replacement based on occupying..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “There is no bigger liar than the US administration, no bigger liar than [the US] exists.The American administration is inventing lies against us, as it has done through all the last decades… We are an...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is our mosque. They [the Jews] have no right to even one millimeter of it. It is an Islamic mosque, and if they are talking about an alleged Temple, let them look for it somewhere...”