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Official PA daily columnist Hassan Hmeid: “The West doesn’t surprise me at all (regarding the 2023 Gaza war). This West is white and blond, but it’s barbaric. It views the entire world as a jungle, and it’s the lord of this jungle, and can do whatever it wants. If it breaks a tree, no one says...”

Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] are...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The one who bears responsibility for every drop of blood that is spilled everywhere in Palestine is the Israeli occupation and those who stand behind the Israeli occupation... The Israeli occupation...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The one who makes the decisions about continuing the [Israeli] aggression or stopping the aggression (i.e., Israeli operation against Hamas) is the American administration. [Israeli Prime Minister]...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “We hope that our brothers in Hamas will do a political rapprochement, a rapprochement regarding the struggle, and an organizational rapprochement, so that we will reach a compromise… What happened on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) was a great...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “This [Israeli] war is not against Hamas or against the Gaza Strip. This is a war against the project of the [Palestinian] state and identity. This is a war against the Gaza Strip like it is a war against Jerusalem, Jenin, Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem,...”

The video shows PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash giving a speech at the 19th World Islamic Forum held in Russia. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The one who is...”

Fatah Secretary in Austria Mundhir Mar’i: “The minimum that we can say about these Zionists is that they are the students of Adolf Hitler... They claimed that Hitler burned them [in the Holocaust]. They are committing the same act and more than this against our people in Palestine (i.e., 2023 Gaza...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The true goal of the [Israeli] war is not to eliminate Hamas (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas). This is a lie or excuse that Israel is using to carry out a plan or plot that is...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The terrorist junta ruling Israel is attempting to exploit what is happening in the Gaza Strip (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas) and the preoccupation of the world and the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “They [the Israelis] have spread lies, falsehoods, and fabrications regarding what happened on Oct. 7 (i.e., Hamas’ massacre), and therefore the world turned against the Palestinians.” [PA Chairman...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “This is a preplanned war [by Israel] that just exploited what happened on Oct. 7 to carry out plans that were planned beforehand and were meant to uproot the Palestinian people and finally eliminate...”

Quds News Network, which is identified with Hamas, posted a video and text on its Twitter account Video: The video shows two girls playing and chanting. Girls: My sister is Yasmina She is a beautiful young girl… My uncle is Saladin (i.e., Muslim military leader) He gave me the book of religion from...

Official PA TV interviews Director of the Al-Haq Institute for Human Rights Sha’awan Jabarin – Al-Haq is a designated terror organization in Israel, see note below Director of the Al-Haq Institute for Human Rights Sha’awan Jabarin: “A topic [that] still isn’t clear… is the matter of those who...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Over many years we have grown accustomed that every time they [the Jews] make a promise, a group of them violates it, as is said in the Quran… We must not trust in their promises and commitments, and...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “The American administration said that they will allow bringing in diesel [fuel] to the hospitals, to purify the water for humanitarian purposes, and with difficulty the agreement of these neo-Nazis (i.e., Israel) was achieved… There is Israeli...”

Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs with the rank of minister Qadura Fares: “This whole [Israeli] outcry and this whole campaign against the Palestinian people (i.e., Israeli response against Hamas) is based on a lie, which it took Israel 24 hours to create and formulate properly. They...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Whoever thinks that Israel truly wants to eradicate Hamas [only] (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation) is deluded. This is idle talk, excuses, and lies whose goal is to market the elimination of...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “[The] goal is not as [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and senior officials of his extremist racist right-wing government claim to eliminate Hamas or eliminate the military danger and the...”

Official PA TV reporter: “From the first day of the [Israeli] attack, some Western media outlets deliberately took action to side with Israeland adopt the occupation’s narrative by broadcasting fabricated pictures and video clips, which tell stories and tales spun from the imagination that there...”

The Palestinian Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab posted this video and text during Hamas’ terror war against Israel, urging West Bank Palestinians to carry out terror attacks against Jews Posted text: “West Bank, the Gaza Strip needs you” The animation shows a bald eagle perched on a mountain...

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “The US is a partner of this aggression against our people (i.e., Gaza war against Hamas), and it is covering up the commission of additional crimes, the murder of children and women, and the continued humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip of more than 2...”

Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal: “What is our responsibility? …I call upon all of you, together with me and all of us… to [do] more creative things than what we are used to. We want this to be at a higher level. First, the rage – let us go down to the squares and plazas, to the Arab and...”

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “If not for this occupation (i.e., Israel) there would be no tensions, violence, and fear from any side, and there would be no bloodshed. The occupation is the cause of all the disasters. Israel claims that it is defending itself, but...”

Official PA TV, special broadcast on the Hamas terror war: Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are enacting our legitimate right in resisting these invaders by defending ourselves, and defending our holy sites and our people… This occupation is temporary. Regardless of...”