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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]

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We know that the prime Zionist goal is emptying this land of its Christians and Muslims. They [the Jews] don’t want anyone here other than themselves. The Christians before the Muslims, because the Christians were here on this land before the Muslims… the Christian is...”

Official PA TV narrator: “According to the orders that were issued in the Ottoman period and recorded a number of times in a manner that leaves no room for doubt, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is on 144 dunams (i.e., 144,000 square meters) of territory, including the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western...”

PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas: “Today is a [day of] fast and mourning for the destruction of the Temple (i.e., Tisha B’av)… They [the Jews] are attempting to invade the Al-Aqsa Mosque today because of the fast and this anniversary of what they call- or the myth of the destruction of...”

Official PA TV newsreader: “The video that the Israeli media published revealed the extent of the Israeli excavations in the depths of the holy city [Jerusalem], which the occupation is planning to include in the so-called “Western Wall Tunnel Path” in order to present tourists with their false...”

"The break-ins were numerous – over 1,000 settlers broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque... which the Palestinians and Muslims believe is a place of prayer for Muslims only"

"The occupation government is exploiting the circumstances of the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic in order to spread its epidemic of Judaization"

"The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is being subjected to many methodical forms of Judaization"

"The occupation authorities are striving to invent an imaginary history"

"The alleged Temple story that is nothing but a mix of fables and myths created for political reasons"

"All of their history and narrative is a false narrative."

"The Jews have no right to it."

"Jerusalem is a city of Arab origin for thousands of years"

"We have no archaeological evidence of the presence of the children of Israel in Palestine in this historical period 3,000 years ago"

"UNESCO has determined that neither Israel nor the Jews have any heritage in Jerusalem."

Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The one called Israeli “Minister of Public Security” [Gilad Erdan] wants to allow the Jewish extremists to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque (i.e., the Temple Mount plaza), on the basis of the claim that...”

“The flag of Palestine will yet wave over the mosques’ minarets and over the churches of Jerusalem [that will be] liberated from the occupation's impurity."

"We are honestly not against the Jews. No. The Jews, the Christians, the Muslims – for us they are equal"

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “They [Israelis] want to find or make a foothold for themselves in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. And this will not happen as long as we are alive...”

"The occupation is recently attempting to steal this Palestinian heritage"

On Dec. 6, 2017, the day US President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, official PA radio and TV started rebroadcasting Abbas' 2014 call for violence and rebroadcast it 41 times in the next 4 weeks. Official PA radio station The Voice of Palestine - 28 times between Dec. 6, 2017 -...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' speech at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at the PA headquarters in Ramallah PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “They [the US] decided to transfer their embassy to it [Jerusalem], cut their allocations to UNRWA, and consider settlement legal. This was said by more than...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in speech to PLO Central Council: "We made a decision at the [Arab] Summit in Amman in 1980 that every state that recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, or that transfers its embassy to it – we must cut our relations with it." Abbas made this statement in response to US...

Official PA TV, excerpt of a speech given by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Jan. 14, 2018, at the PLO Central Council in Ramallah PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "We will not accept the deals the US wants to impose on us. We will not accept its mediation after the crime it committed against Jerusalem [by..."

Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Do what you want, do what you want. This money that you are threatening to cancel and stop - do you imagine that we might bargain over Jerusalem? What idiocy has taken control of your minds to..."