Fatah official: Selling property to Jews in Jerusalem is "national disaster," those who do so must be punished

Official PA TV, live broadcast from an event held in Ramallah marking the 14th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat

Fatah Central Committee member, Fatah Commissioner of Information, Culture, and Ideology, and Chairman of the PA-supported Yasser Arafat Foundation Nasser Al-Qidwa:  "And a second comment about the national disaster, which is illustrated by the transfer [to Jews] of properties of Arabs in exalted Jerusalem, including in the Old City. We express our complete condemnation of the hand that betrays, the hand that sold, and the hand that conspired, and ask to punish these hands and end this disaster once and for all.”