"In addition to encouraging drug dealing, Israelis welcome and encourage the addiction to drugs by a payment of 4,500 shekels to anyone who proves he's addicted to drugs."

Um Jihad, Minister for Social Affairs: "The Occupation Authority - by inserting and distributing them [the drugs] in our districts - wishes to destroy our ability, and to weaken our beliefs in the resistance against the occupier."

"The Minister [for Social Affairs] Antazar Al-Wazir said that her office provides all possible help to those fighting drugs, however the Israeli authorities are working hard on bringing drugs into the Palestinian society."

"The [current] stage of the Israeli occupation is the stage of the rapid spreading of drugs ... in our country... The goal of the Israeli occupation is to destroy the national wealth that manifests itself in our youth.”

"Many of the citizens who participated in the demonstration told 'Wafa' [news agency] that the main reason for the distribution of drugs in the holy city originates from the Israeli occupation - who aims at the youth of Jerusalem in order to attain their goals, after aiming at the [Palestinian]..."