Abbas’ Fatah deputy encourages terror: “You can use all possible means to defend our land”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...”May 15
Abbas to international audience: “We reject the killing of civilians on both sides”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...”Oct 21, 2023
PLO "absolutely rejects" Australian "attempts" to name Hamas a terror organizationThe 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"Feb 18, 2022
Abbas has “no reservations about any action” – taken by joint Fatah–Hamas committee"I will have no reservations about any action or committee, or about any person or organization in any committee or action"Sep 12, 2020
Top PA/Fatah official threatens Israel: “All possibilities are open,” “struggle” will escalate from peaceful to violence"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."Sep 7, 2020
Top PA official promotes terror: “All the types of resistance” are valid “against all expressions of the occupation”"All the possibilities are open to all the types of resistance in the occupied lands against all expressions of the occupation"Aug 17, 2020
PA warns Israel against annexation: Defense will be “with spirit and blood”“No to the deal of the century”Jun 21, 2020 & Jul 20, 2020
Abbas: The PA is absolved of all agreements with the US and Israel"The [Palestinian] leadership has today decided the following: First, the PLO and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli governments"May 19, 2020
Abbas: We are committed to fight international terrorism “regardless of its shape or source”"We [the PA] reiterate our firm commitment to fighting international terrorism. We are against international terrorism. We are against international terrorism regardless of its shape or source."May 19, 2020
Abbas: “We are against colonialist America, the America of [Trump’s] administration”"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"May 19, 2020
Abbas’ deputy calls for “resistance,” Fatah official urges Palestinians to “benefit from experience” from PA terror campaigns"Any negotiations that come together with the resistance guarantee that the occupier will be motivated to end the occupation"Oct 12, 2019
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas rejects all negotiations with the US if Jerusalem and refugee problem are off the tableOfficial PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the opening event of the Jerusalem the Capital of the Islamic Youth 2018 conference at the PA headquarters in Ramallah PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “Not only have [the Americans] taken Jerusalem off the table, but they have also spoken about UNRWA...”Feb 6, 2018
Abbas: “Jerusalem is the gate to peace… only when it will be the capital of the State of Palestine, and …it is, God forbid, the gate to war, fear, and the lack of security and stability if it is not”Official PA TV, special broadcast for the Al-Azhar Conference in Cairo, on US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “After [the US] has stood unequivocally alongside the occupation and imposed a reality upon us that leaves us no choice but...”Jan 17, 2018
Fatah official: "On its 53rd anniversary the Fatah Movement says that it is not putting aside its options of struggle"Official PA TV, special broadcast following US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, hosting Fatah Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs Dalal Salameh Fatah Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs Dalal Salameh: “Certainly, there...”Dec 31, 2017
Fatah offiical glorifies Arafat; "The struggle [will be waged] through all of the types of operation, not just the rifle"Official PA TV, on the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, interview with Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "Our culture and idea as Fatah members, led by our teacher and master, the great Yasser..."Nov 11, 2017
Fatah official: Abbas, like Arafat, used to support “armed struggle,” but now supports “popular resistance… [but] we have not given up the option of the rifle… the means need to serve the political goal”Official PA TV host: “I’m returning with you, [Fatah Movement Spokesman] Dr. Osama Al-Qawasmi, to the history of Yasser Arafat.... At the time of the self-sacrificing operations and armed struggle, Yasser Arafat and the Fatah Movement were at the head of the self-sacrificing operations that dealt...”Nov 10, 2017
Fatah official: Shimon Peres was a "murderer and a criminal," Abbas attended his funeral because of international pressureOfficial PA TV program State of Politics, hosting Fatah Commissioner for Mobilization and Organization and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul, on the criticism against PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sept. 30, 2016 Fatah...Oct 11, 2016
Analyst on PA TV: Abbas visit to Peres' funeral will bring us positive international attention, just like our humanitarian treatment of Gilad ShalitOfficial PA TV program Inside, about the treatment of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ participation in the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, hosting political analyst Hani Abu Zaid Political analyst Hani Abi Zaid is asked about the criticism...Oct 1, 2016
Fatah official: We must pursue the occupation “by all the ways and means at our disposal,” whether directly or indirectly through international institutionsOfficial PA TV News, on funeral of Palestinian terrorist murderer Yasser Hamdouni who died while in prison Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad: “This crime really drives us to continue pursuing the occupation by all the ways and means at our disposal, whether by direct confrontation with...”Sep 27, 2016
Fatah Central Committee Member: Fatah "chooses the appropriate time and the appropriate path for choosing the appropriate method of the struggle"Official PA TV program To Palestine Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “There are 30 methods of struggle, starting with demonstration and ending with the most extreme, armed struggle, and what is between them. Every one of these methods has its own factors, its own political conditions,...”Aug 22, 2016
Fatah official supports Intifada: "There must be an escalating popular resistance in the field to support the political activity of the leadership"Official PA TV program The State of Politics, on the need to escalate the popular uprising until it becomes Intifada Fatah Central Committee Member Jamal Muhaisen is asked about Palestinian activity required to support future efforts. Fatah Central Committee Member Jamal Muhaisen: “I repeat: The...”May 26, 2016
PLO official reaffirms Palestinian commitment to "struggle in all its forms;" currently, Abbas has declared "peaceful popular resistance"Official PA TV program To Palestine, hosting Secretary-General of the Palestinian Arab Front and PLO Executive Committee member Jamil Shehadeh Jamil Shehadeh: “The message needs to be clear to the occupation: The Palestinian people is determined to continue the struggle in all its forms until the...”Apr 18, 2016
Day after murder of Israeli mother of 6, Abbas: “We are against spilling of blood… our resistance will remain peaceful”The day after 15-year-old Palestinian terrorist Morad Adais stabbed 38-year-old Israeli Dafna Meir to death in her home in the town of Otniel, south of Hebron, in front of her children, Abbas maintained that the Palestinian "resistance" is “peaceful,” thus denying the many shooting and stabbing...Jan 18, 2016
Fatah leader: Allah loves young Palestinians who stab Israelis. It is “peaceful resistance”Member of Fatah Central Committee, Abbas Zaki: “This is a year of challenge. We must challenge [the occupation] without fear... or by the sacrifices being made now by our young people, with rocks and knives, through which Palestinians have once again imposed a new parameter in the equation of the...”Dec 29, 2015
Abbas' advisor: All of "Palestine" will "return" to Palestinians through "resistance"Friday sermon in the presence of Mahmoud Abbas. Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "All of this land will return to us, All our occupied land, all our rights in Palestine - our state, our people's heritage, our ancestors' legacy -..."Dec 12, 2014