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Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan: "We see in [the exhibit's] pictures how [former PLO Chairman Arafat's] voice echoes in the UN (refers to Arafat's 1974 UN speech), how he reminds us and says: ‘I have come bearing a freedom fighter's gun and an olive branch. Do not let the olive branch..."

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,...”

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “All the greetings on your [Ramallah residents’] behalf to our beloved prisoners… Also all the greetings to the popular resistance (i.e., includes using violence and terror) … We say to the world on their behalf and on your behalf that we will defend our...”

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...”

Excerpt from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the Cairo Peace Summit on Oct. 21, 2023. In the audience were Arab and European representatives. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We again emphasize our absolute rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides, and [call for] the release of the...”

The PLO emphasized its "absolute rejection of the attempts by a number of states to describe the Palestinian struggle and some of the Palestinian factions and organizations as terrorists"

PLO Council Secretary calls to "expand the scope and pace of participation to a comprehensive rebellion against the Israeli occupation... because popular action, peaceful or non-peaceful, has the ability to realize the Palestinian people’s aspirations in the shortest timeframe"

Fatah Jenin Branch Secretary Ata Abu Rmeileh: “We’ll continue the resistance in all its forms, with all means, and with all our power to defend our Palestinian people and continue this resistance to realize the dream of the Martyrs and take revenge for the pure blood that flows every morning...”

Official PA TV political commentator in Lebanon Ma’an Bashour: “If we succeed in strengthening the Palestinian national unity, in igniting an internal Palestinian intifada as happened with the 1987 intifada, the Stone Intifada, which forced them to make a number of concessions here and there, and...”

Abbas told Hamas leader that whatever is chosen by the joint Hamas-Fatah committee to fight the UAE-Israel peace he will "agree to."

"President [Abbas] said that he will not have any reservations about any decision that is made by these committees…"

"I will have no reservations about any action or committee, or about any person or organization in any committee or action"

"Regarding the resistance in all its forms, for us in Fatah there is no problem. All of the possibilities are open and on the table."

"There will be a committee [of Fatah, Hamas, PFLP and others] to examine the way to develop the popular resistance"

“The [joint] statement emphasized our legal right – according to all the international resolutions – to struggle in all its forms.”

"All the possibilities are open to all the types of resistance in the occupied lands against all expressions of the occupation"

Official PA TV host: "The statement issued after the [PLO - Fatah] meeting, spoke about “developing and implementing coordination on the ground between all the political forces, popular committees, institutions, and activists of the resistance, and working to establish a united national front for...”"

"When the Palestinian people set out on its first Intifada in response to an attempt to erase the Palestinian cause, and also when it set out on its second Intifada in response to the attempt to harm Jerusalem"

"As long as Jerusalem is occupied, there will be an escalation in the Palestinian struggle."

"Even if you think that we are waving this gun [in vain], don’t try the Palestinians’ patience."

“No to the deal of the century”

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "If this occupation causes escalation, I believe that we will decide to start a confrontation… I also say that international legitimacy permits us resistance in all its forms, and nothing is forbidden…"

"The doctrine of military activity, armed struggle, and a lengthy people’s war constituted an important means for Fatah to mobilize the capabilities of the public and the Palestinian people."

"Let’s have our brothers inside prison see the [released] prisoners, their friends, how satisfied they are, and hope that Allah will release them."

"We are not against America as a people, we are against colonialist America, the America of [Trump’s] administration, settlement America, and the America that is hostile to the Palestinian people"