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While claiming Israel has no sovereignty over Jerusalem, PA Daily calls annual flag march a "blood dance march" and states that "Zionists waved flags of their defeat by force of the gunpowder and army, but left the occupied city like panicked mice fleeing from the guardians of the city"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh "warned against the dangerous consequences" of Jerusalem Day flag march, praised Arabs carrying out religious land conflict, and stated that "Jerusalem's face, heart, and tongue are Arab, and attempts to change its features and impose an imaginary sovereignty on it will not last"

PA Grand Mufti of Jerusalem falsely claims Israel "has no religious, historical, or legal legitimacy in Jerusalem" while promising to "lay groundwork for fierce religious war, whose results are difficult to imagine… and the occupation will eventually pass from the world"

Claiming that Jews visiting the holiest site in Judaism are "invaders," Official PA Daily delegitimizes the historic Jewish Temple by calling it "so called" and "alleged"

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri wrongly accuses Israel of "desecrating" the Al-Aqsa Mosque and "blatantly attacking our holy sites," while saying that Temple Mount is only Islamic

Fatah senior member Tawfiq Tirawi, falsely claims Israel "is desecrating Al-Aqsa Mosque by turning it into a military base and a platform for settlers who do not hesitate to desecrate the site’s honour and sanctity" while calling for Ribat, religious land conflict, at the site

Supreme Shari’ah Judge of Palestine spreads fearmongering lie that Israel "is striving to commit a dirty and despicable crime at Al-Aqsa Mosque" and promises that "no one in the world will be spared from the furnace of religious war, which will exterminate everything"

PA Minister of Religious Affairs says the construction plans are an "incessant massacre of the site… and Palestinians will do all they can to defend the severe attack that the settlers are waging to contaminate the structure and hide the Islamic construction style, in a manner that matches their false narrative"

Abbas’ religious advisor says "the Israeli occupation will necessarily pass from the world… this is a true promise,” while also falsely claiming that Israel was behind the 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque arson

Fatah calls violent Arab rioters “a symbol of honour of the Palestinian people” whose violence is a "heroic struggle which ensures the defeat of the occupation and its plots of Judaization and settlement”

As violent riots raged in the capital, Fatah recycles Abbas’ call for “Ribat” – religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic, and his demand to "stand before the occupation with chests bared" and fight "in any way whatsoever"

"We will defend Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem with our souls and our bodies" says Jerusalem District – "we promise to defend this city until achieving victory on its land or Martyrdom under its fragrant soil"

"The Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain an exclusive site for the loyal servants of Allah who are carrying out religious conflict over land” says Mufti of Jerusalem

PA Imams and preachers hold rally against the UAE’s normalization of relations with Israel in which they called the deal "treason against Allah and the Palestinian cause" and also claimed that Temple Mount is an exclusive right of the Muslims

"The Ibrahimi Mosque that is sacred as a purely Islamic mosque"

"The Israeli occupation government's insistence on using various myths and lies in its service... in Jerusalem... will only lead to destruction"

"Allah, grant us victory over those who have oppressed us and over those who have stolen our land, our Jerusalem"

"The Al-Aqsa Mosque and Ibrahimi Mosque will remain Islamic mosques with all of their territory and all of their parts, and the Jews have no connection to them in any way"

Headline: "The [PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs condemned the clearing of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and called to stop the attack against it" "The [PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs condemned the fact that the occupation forces removed the worshippers and those carrying out Ribat (i.e., religious..."

Headline: “The Supreme Muslim Council and the Council of Clergy and Preachers in Jerusalem: Whoever plays with fire will get burned!” “[The independent organization] the Supreme Muslim Council and the Council of Clergy and Preachers in Jerusalem published a statement yesterday [Aug. 5, 2019] in...”

"Anyone who comes to it [Jerusalem] under the auspices of the oppressive occupier is not wanted"

"Al-Habbash: Visiting Jerusalem is obligatory Ribat and Jihad for all Muslims in order to defend it from the occupation"

"Al-Habbash: Jerusalem is the embodiment of the conflict between truth and falsehood"

“The battle over Jerusalem that is raging today... is a battle between facts and myth... and between good and evil."

Headline: “The [Palestinian] Supreme Fatwa Council emphasized the Islamicness of every part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque” “The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council emphasized that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with all of its mosques, domes, plazas, and courtyards, aboveground and underground, is...”