PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel has announced unreal and untrue goals. It has said that it is responding to the Oct. 7 events (i.e., Hamas’ invasion and massacre of Israel), but the Oct. 7 events were only an opportunity for...”

Posted text: “What happened on Oct. 7wasn’t terror, but rather a response to the Israeli terror” [Jibril Rajoub’s Facebook page, Nov. 22, 2023] Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “[October 7] was part of a defensive war by the Palestinians. This will certainly lead to explosions, and...”

The video shows an interview with Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub on Kuwaiti state-run Kuwait TV. Rajoub is wearing a scarf featuring a keffiyeh (Arab headdress) pattern and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine” in the colors...

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...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “This [Israeli] campaign (i.e., counter-terror operation against Hamas) is targeting the Arab and the Egyptian national security through this official terror that the government of this occupation (i.e., Israel), the neo-Nazi government, is...”

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “What is needed now after Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ invasion and massacre of Israel) is to reexamine all the policies and to have a new strategy whose basis is Palestinian unity. I think the door has been opened so that we will all be united, because...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “I don’t think that the Israeli war government, [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu, or his entire government have any final decision regarding the continuation of the aggression or the ceasefire (i.e.,...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The dream of the Zionist idea and the Zionist movement is to empty the Gaza Strip and afterwards to empty the West Bank to turn Palestine into a land without a people that will be settled by the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The truth is that Israel is just a pawn of the US, which is the inheritor of the old colonialism. The one who established Israel was the old colonialism for colonialist goals… The US is using [Israel...”

The video shows a speech by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh at the start of a PA government meeting. PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “It is saddening that a number of states are continuing to support Israel’s right to self-defense. The attacker has no right to self-defense. Occupying the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation (i.e., Israel) is the reason that makes the Palestinians resist. The resistance is self-defense. It is a legal right. The occupation is the one that contradicts international law.” [PA...

The first video shows archive footage of an event in which then PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin are sitting next to each other in the front row making statements to the press PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: “Allah willing, we will pray together at the Al-Aqsa...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Without ending the occupation (i.e., Israel) we will continue to go from one cycle of violence to another. It is the problem. If there is occupation, there is resistance (i.e., violence and terror)...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Zionist movement at its core is not a religious movement, it is a secular movement. It is a political movement with a colonialist background and nature, which the colonialist states have used to...”

The Fatah Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie posted this video: Fatah Deputy Chairman and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “We swear to Allah and to our people that our path and our struggle will continue until achieving...”

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Since the start of the [Israeli] aggression (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas), has anyone heard from us? From the [PA] leadership, from [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the people in the Palestinian leadership – has anyone heard from us one word...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “From the first days of the [Israeli] aggression they [Israel] began to speak about Gaza Strip residents leaving Palestine to the Sinai Peninsula, and if that would succeed, Heaven forbid, they would...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The first goal [of the American support] is moral support for Israel, because there is internal shock inside Israel... This is an attempt to give moral support and strengthen the Israelis in order to...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The entire conflict taking place in the region is a conflict against the occupation (i.e., Israel). The issue is not just an attack by one side against another side. The root of the issue is the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation is the foundation of all the problems in the region. If there were no occupation, there would be no conflict… The essence of the issue is the occupation’s existence. Everything that the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The fact that they [Israel] are targeting the [Palestinian] children is as if they are trying to target the Palestinian future, as these children are the future. But I say to them and to others and to...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are not only defending the land of Palestine or the Palestinian people. We are also defending the honor of the [Arab] nation, because if Palestine falls, the next in line will be Arab and Muslim...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The [Israeli-American] satanical plan will not stop with the Gaza Strip and will not be summed up by the Gaza Strip or just the Hamas Movement. The goal is to eliminate the Palestinian cause at the...”

Abbas’ advisor refuses to blame Hamas for current war The video shows a recorded interview with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash Interviewer (by phone): “Let’s go back to Oct. 7 [2023] … It was perhaps the excuse for this [Israeli]...”

The video contains audio of a radio interview with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel, the occupation state, represents the...”