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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We must restore the national unity. We must preserve the national unity. The national unity exists. Indeed, there is disagreement between the Palestinian factions, between the PLO and Hamas and...”

Al-Jazeera TV Live host: “[What is] your opinion as a Palestinian and politician regarding the speech of [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu two days ago at the [US] Congress.” Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “This reminds us of Goebbels, and it reminds us of Hitler. He [Israeli PM...”

PA Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Director of Historical Sites Dirgham Al-Fares: “The occupation presents the antiquities as if they are part of its history, and this is an open falsification of history. We the Palestinian people are the true residents since the Stone Age. We were idolaters,...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “Good evening to our people in the Gaza Strip who are carrying out unprecedented epic and legendary resolve against the genocide and ethnic cleansing by the Nazi racist fascist occupation (i.e., Israel)… This resolve is against this state official...”

Official PA TV narrator: “Raindrops fall from the sky, kiss Al-Aqsa and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and erase the defilement of the occupation (i.e., Israel) … We are ashamed walking on the raindrops flowing in the roads, alleys, and neighborhoods of Jerusalem… Its inner part needs the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “For thousands of years, Jerusalem was a Palestinian, Arab, and Canaanite city, and it is an Islamic Christian city, in which the holiest site to Muslims in Palestine is located and the holiest site to...”

Writer and political commentator Monther Howarat: “The project that is Israel lives on wars. It lives on wars in the West Bank and Gaza Strip… What motivates it, its fuel, is war. Therefore, it will not stop with this war (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war)... It is working on a large project: To fragment...”

Official PA TV host: “Jerusalem is considered one of the holiest cities in the world throughout the generations, and it is the only city to which the hearts of the religions of divine revelation are connected: Islam and Christianity.” [Official PA TV, In Its Alleys, May 10, 2024]

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “[Muhammad] Deif (i.e., Hamas terror leader) was wanted as an international terrorist, even though he is a hero of a war of liberation, because the Palestinian people lost its land, and the Geneva Conventions give it the right to resistance to restore the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Neither the occupation (i.e., Israel) nor the herds of terrorist settlers have any kind of religious or non-religious right to any millimeter of the land of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This entire mosque –...”

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...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation authority (i.e., Israel) is attempting and advancing matters in a gradual manner to carry out a plot against Jerusalem in general and the Islamic and Christian holy sites, and...”

Fatah official Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta:“The blood of the Martyrs is what draws the map of the homeland, the map of Palestine – Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, Ramle (i.e., all Israeli cities), the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the capital Jerusalem. Their blood is our compass, and...”

Speech by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the occasion of "Palestinian Independence Day," marking the issuing of the Palestinian declaration of independence – see note below PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "We are dealing with a barbaric aggressive war and an open war of annihilation to which our people..."

Official PA TV commentator Iyad Abu Zneit: “We [Palestinians] are first of all Canaanites, and therefore we have been in this land for many years... The Israelis are the ones who need to return to the lands they came from, lands throughout the world. Israel by its very nature is a foreign element...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The [Israeli] goals have become transparent and clear. We know what they are, and our position regarding them has not changed: We will not leave. [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said this publicly. We..."

PA Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Director of Historical Sites Dirgham Al-Fares: “The Palestinian people today is a continuation of the original residents from the Stone Age… There was no monotheistic religion throughout the Iron Age. The Jewish religion formulated during the period of...”

Images of cities are shown while a song is played at the end of the program. Lyrics: “Acre, Gaza, and Be’er Sheva, cities full of blessing Nablus, its antiquities pulsate, its glory is mentioned in history These are the famous districts of Palestine… Ramallah, Ramle, and El-Bireh, Their lands are...”

Palestinian Council denounces Israel’s efforts to “erase” Jerusalem’s history, vowing “unity and resistance” against “Judaization”

Hussein calls for filling the Temple Mount on arson anniversary, accusing Israel of “Judaization” and “plotting” Temple construction

Khouri: Jews burned Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Israel prevented from extinguishing the fire

Ignoring over 200 Jewish Nobel Prize winners, Hmeid claims Jews “did not leave an idea, voice, or imprint”

PA President denies Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, saying it is all Islamic

Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: “The Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) is the southern part of the western wall of the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), whose length is approximately 47 meters and whose height is approximately 17 meters. The Jews never used...”

Abu Saif claims the PA’s job is to “debunk the false Zionist perceptions and claims”