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Official PA TV, broadcast of a sermon by PA Shari'ah Judge Abdallah Harb at a mosque in Ramallah PA Shari'ah Judge Abdallah Harb: "For 88 years, [the Al-Aqsa Mosque] was under occupation, oppression, and humiliation until Saladin (i.e., Muslim military leader) came and liberated the mosque. I say..."

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Hamas is part of the Palestinian people. It is part of the national and social fabric and exists in all the Palestinian territories and in all parts of the Palestinian people. The empty claim that Israel wants to eliminate Hamas is just an excuse Israel is using to extend the...”

Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “If the Israeli security and military leadership was sincere and serious in its criticism against [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu… it could get rid of him easily… If the [military] leadership wanted to remove Netanyahu from power it would remove...”

Syrian Journalists Association member Mustafa Al-Miqdad: “The great massacre that Zionism, [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu, and his government committed in Majdal Shams (i.e., in northern Israel) – tried to pretend that it was from Lebanon and this rocket was from Lebanon.” [Official PA TV,...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Our religion is the religion of tolerance and the religion of human brotherhood. But we are also the people of Jihad and the people of force against those who deserve it from us and against those who...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “There is a green light, there is full American participation in the crimes that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip and all the Palestinian territories (refers to the 2023 Gaza war). Applauding...”

Director of PA-funded Prisoners’ Club in Jericho Eid Barahmeh: “There are veteran prisoners from the Jericho district who are still imprisoned: Mahmoud Abu Kharabish and Jum’a Adam (i.e., terrorists, murdered 5) who have been imprisoned for 37 years since their arrest. The Palestinian prisoners’...”

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “The group that has been subjected to attack more than any – by this Israeli government and by the occupation (i.e., Israel) – is our beloved prisoners. Those who dwell in our hearts, minds, and spirit. They have been subjected to the most evil attack… It...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Oct. 7, [2023] events (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) were just an excuse that Israel exploited and the Israeli government used to start executing this plan. The plan whose goal is to perpetuate the...”

“...[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril] Rajoub said… that the Israelis are attempting to present themselves as a victim, while they are the criminals and murderers, and while they are carrying out actions and a policy against children, elderly, women, trees, stones, and holy sites, which...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “The Palestinian people is being subjected to unilateral aggressionagainst everything that is Palestinian, which has no mercy on humans, holy sites, institutions, stones, or trees… [The Israelis] are inciting against me, attacking me, and pressuring...”

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...

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...”

Follow-up Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs Director and Fatah activist Amin Shuman: “The coming days will be the most difficult in the history of our Palestinian people, if the [Israeli] war of annihilation against the Palestinian people will continue (i.e., Gaza war), if there will be no real...”

Palestine Today TV host: "The severity [of the situation] concerning the Al-Aqsa Mosque, does it not require that the resistance (i.e., terror) be activated more and more in the West Bank, and that its chained hands be released? Let us say it frankly: Due to what the PA is doing to prevent any..."

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,...”

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...”

Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdallah Kmeil: “The [Israeli] aggression is continuing and began before Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ war on Israel)... However, Oct. 7 happened, and it was like the Israelis were seeking any possible excuse to impose the fire of killing on our people.” [Fatah...

Artas Mayor Lutfi As’ad: “This is the occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) policy: To deny the Palestinian people its land, its status, and its humanity so that the occupation will remain stretched out not only over Palestine, but also beyond Palestine, according to their Israeli flag, which is between...”

Official PA TV newsreader: “ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said that he is working to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Army (i.e., Defense) Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes. The chief prosecutor’s office emphasized that the evidence that it...”

Official PA TV phone interview from Amman with attorney and international law expert Abdullah Salah Shannaq Abdullah Salah Shannaq, attorney and international law expert: "We anticipated this matter. We made statements about it, and we bet on it. Praise Allah, it was realized. This victory is a..."

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...”

Former Jordanian Minister of Government Communications and Minister of State for Media Affairs Faisal Shboul: “When the occupation (i.e., Israeli) government, and behind it many of the Western states, tried to say that Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) is the root of the problem, Jordan said...”