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The video shows an interview with Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily Muwaffaq Matar on Al-Arabiya TV. Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar: “We think that the masses of our people in the Gaza Strip have paid a very, very heavy price as a...”

Al-Farabi Institute of Political Studies President and Egyptian researcher Mukhtar Ghobashi: “The latest request that was submitted to the [UN] International Court [of Justice] (ICJ) to prevent an Israeli invasion of Rafah, open the crossings, and bring in humanitarian aid (i.e., during the 2023...”

Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily Muwaffaq Matar: “A Palestinian national prisoner (i.e., terrorist), even if he is sentenced to life, will never agree that the price of his freedom will be tens of thousands of [Palestinian] Martyrs, hundreds of...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Israeli occupation forces committed an additional massacre at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (sic., refers to Operation Arnon in which 4 Israeli hostages were freed during the...”

Official PA TV program From Cairo, interview with international relations expert at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Egypt Bashir Abd Al-Fattah, on upcoming US presidential elections and the 2023 Gaza war – see note below International relations expert at Al-Ahram Center for...

Syrian Al-Yaum TV host: “Do you expect that [Biden’s] proposal (i.e., ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal) will succeed this time, or is this the regular policy of throwing sand in [our] eyes by the international community and the US?” ... PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs...

Fatah official and An-Najah National University political science lecturer Raed Debiy: “The US is the protector and guardian of Israel, and it can remove this protection from [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu and the State of Israel, but unfortunately this always clashes with the American...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel’s goals are not to eliminate Hamas… and not to return the [Israeli] captives (i.e., hostages in 2023 Gaza war). [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu’s real goal is to eliminate the Palestinian...”

PLO National Council member Muwaffaq Matar: “There is no clearer proof [than Iranian leader Khamenei’s speech] of Hamas’ subordination to this Iranian regime. In this speech there is nothing new for us, because we have already understood how much this regime controls Hamas, has given it its...”

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “People are surprised given the mighty [Palestinian] resolve and how the entire NATO treaty, all the West’s capabilities, together with all their [Israel’s] mercenaries and collaborators, were unable to silence the [resistance’s] fighters’ rifles and...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “Our conflict with this occupation (i.e., Israel) has been open since 1948 and until now… Our behavior in all the circles and all platforms is based on the fact that what happened on Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ invasion and massacre) is a response...”

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “For more than 75 years our people has been subjected to aggression, ever since the occupation (i.e., establishment of Israel) at the least. It is oppressed and suffering, and everything that is done by our people (i.e., including terror)is a response, and this...”

Fatah Spain Branch Secretary Ahmed Ma’arouf: “The [UN] International Court of Justice will bring all the senior Israeli officials to trial about the dirty war they are waging (i.e., 2023 Gaza war): A Nazi fascist war – they are neo-Nazis – a war against our people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank,...”

Former PA Minister of Justice Muhammad Shalaldeh: “The Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership led by President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas are waging a legal and judicial battle on the world stages… Palestinian diplomacy is complementing the resistance in the Gaza Strip...”

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...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel… is not attempting to implement any measures to protect the [Palestinian] civilians nor taking any action for that purpose. The proof is all the civilian victims who will fall in the Gaza Strip...”

Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “The naval passageway that the US has created in the Gaza Strip began to transfer a certain amount of aid, aid for the sake of appearances. I think this is a prelude for something much more dangerous than this so-called humanitarian aid. There is a...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “If the Palestinian cause will not be justly, comprehensively, and permanently resolved, at least on the basis of international legitimacy, at least on the basis of the UN resolutions, then Oct. 7”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The floating port is an attempt to throw dust in [our] eyes. It is an attempt to keep the situation in the Gaza Strip under Israeli rule and Israeli sovereignty… What we fear is that this floating...”

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “All the greetings on your [Ramallah residents’] behalf to our beloved prisoners… Also all the greetings to the popular resistance (i.e., includes using violence and terror) … We say to the world on their behalf and on your behalf that we will defend our...”

Official PA TV, broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by an unidentified preacher at a mosque in Nablus. Unidentified preacher: It is our duty to fight, confront, and carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict) in this land as much as we can. It is our duty to reject all the expressions of...

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: “Hamas is actually not connected to the Palestinian agenda and is not connected to the Palestinian people’s interests. Hamas is connected to its mother, and its mother is the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas...”

Fatah member Jihad Al-Harazin: “The Middle East region… arouses the colonialist states’ desire for control. Therefore, the Western states, and foremost among them the US, saw a need to implant this distorted entity (i.e., Israel) in this region so that it would realize all the goals required of it,...”

Editor in Chief Adnan Khalil: “The occupation state (i.e., Israel) can’t live without the world and without the wealthy capitalist states. It was planted by Western colonialism. It was supported and is still supported [by it]... Now, as the [American] masses have turned against these regimes, this...”