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Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan: “We say to the entire world that this blood that is being shed (i.e., in the 2023 Gaza war; see note below) will be the fuel for our return to Acre, Jaffa, and Haifa (i.e., all Israeli cities), and certainly the Israeli occupation is transient and...”

Official PA TV Editor of Israel-related Content Anas Abu Arqoub: “[In Israel] there is support for bloodshed through bombings from planes because of [their] instinctive love for murder and seeing Palestinians’ blood spilled and destruction. This is an instinct that controls the leadership and media...”

PLO Director of Refugees in the Northern West Bank Nasrin Dhouqan: “The refugee camps in the northern West Bank are the most crowded in terms of population. Historically speaking, they have served as a torch of the Palestinian struggle and an important incubator for nationalism. The occupation...”

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,...”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “We hope that the efforts will bring about a UN resolution on stopping this aggression, an Israeli withdrawal, and carrying out a prisoner exchange of everyone for everyone (i.e., hostages for terrorists). I say to all relevant parties: a Palestinian...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Palestinian people’s future is in danger in the crazy war that is being waged by Israel in which it is using the name of Hamas, what happened on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ attack and massacre),...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation (i.e., Israel) is exploiting what has happened and is happening in the Gaza Strip (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war; see note below). It is attempting to exploit the world’s preoccupation and...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Neither the occupation (i.e., Israel) nor the herds of terrorist settlers have any kind of religious or non-religious right to any millimeter of the land of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This entire mosque –...”

Syrian State Minister for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar: “Everything that is happening in Palestine is a battle between those with a right and thieves of this right. This battle continues and is constant… We are in one of the rounds of the war that has continued and lasted for 75...”

Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares: “Israelis unique in many unprecedented acts that no state on the face of the earth does. One of them, and perhaps the most criminal of them, is that it takes bodies as hostages for cheap political negotiations. This is only done by...”

Top PA official Rajoub: Israel is responsible for the October 7 massacre “[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:] “I would be happy if the entire Palestinian people would support Fatah, but there is a part of the Palestinian people that believes in Hamas. From my perspective, Hamas is...”

Official PA TV reporter in Nablus: “We are speaking about extremist settlers who receive their ideological education from rabbis who permit killing Palestinians and permit poisoning water wells.” [Official PA TV, March 20, 2024]

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...”

Official PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas: “An extremist right-wing organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) prepared a report saying that the Red Cross fills out forms for the prisoners and they are submitted to the PA in order to pay salaries to the prisoners. Of course, the director...”

Official PA TV Head of PLO Department of Human Rights, Qassem Awad: “Under the leadership of the PLO, we stand firmly on the Palestinian principles, which our people have never given up on during more than 76 years of occupation (i.e., since Israel’s founding), that is the length of time of the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation authority (i.e., Israel) is attempting and advancing matters in a gradual manner to carry out a plot against Jerusalem in general and the Islamic and Christian holy sites, and...”

Abbas’ advisor and Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: The Pharaoh of this period, America thinks it can do anything without any draw back, and without any consequences... America used its veto for the third time, to prevent the cessation of the war against our people in the Gaza...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “[The Israelis] used what happened on Oct. 7 [2023] as an excuse to carry out a plan that was planned in advance to destroy the Gaza Strip and expel the people from the Gaza Strip. In the same manner...”

A pro-Gaza/Hamas rallyin Athens, Greece, against Israel in the 2023 Gaza war. A boy wearing a keffiyeh (Arab headdress) chants into a loudspeaker, and the crowd repeats after him. Boy at pro-Gaza/Hamas rally in Athens, Greece: Boy: “The gate of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is made of iron.” Crowd: “The gate...”

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: “If, Heaven forbid, Palestine will fall, and the Gaza Strip will fall, and Israel will realize its goals in the Gaza Strip and afterwards will move on to realize similar goals in the West Bank, it will...”

Jordanian-Palestinian writer Ahmed Abu Salim: "I turned to the psychology of the Zionist, the psychology that he drew from the book that is sacred to the Zionist (i.e., the Jewish Bible), and I turned to the form of divinity in the book that is sacred to the Zionist... the sacred story upon which..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel has political and geopolitical goals behind this aggression. It is attempting to end the Palestinian cause and eliminate it. It is attempting to expel the Gaza Strip [residents] as preparation...”

Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “Now [the US] is attacking the [Iran-backed] military organizations in Iraq, Yemen, and Syria… at a time when no one knows who killed the American soldiers. Maybe it was the Israeli Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) that killed them or...”

Fatah Revolutionary Council member, Younes Amr: “Once America was described as the Great Satan. America speaks about democracy and human rights, while it sides with Israel in the strongest and largest bombings in the world for the sake of destruction (i.e., in the 2023 Gaza war).” [Official PA TV,...