PA: "We call to expand popular resistance so that it will include every place"

Headline: “The [PA] leadership praised the resolve of our people in Jerusalem and the refugee camps and our heroic prisoners and their families”

“Yesterday evening, Thursday [March 10, 2022], the [PA] leadership held a meeting led by [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah…

The leadership directed a blessing of pride and appreciation to the great role that is being fulfilled by our people in the targeted villages, cities, and areas as part of the popular resistance (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) ‘that we call to expand so that it will include every place.’”

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance,” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." https://palwatch.org/page/9276