“The signs of the third Intifada are seen on the horizon,” says official of PLO member party

Official PA TV, special broadcast on violent Arab riots and Hamas missile barrages

Palestinian People’s Party Political Bureau member Walid Al-Awad: “Our Palestinian people is uniting everywhere it is and placing the whole cause on the table through a national struggle with its willingness to make sacrifices, its willingness to continue its struggle, while being committed to the decisions of international law and its right to fight the occupation in all forms (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror)‎...

If the occupation wants to take Jerusalem out of the equation, our Palestinian people will guarantee that it will return to the table through its brave uprisings in all their forms. As it has shown in the popular uprising in the years that have passed – in the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately 200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993), in the second Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more than 1,100 Israelis murdered), and here the signs of the third Intifada are seen on the horizon – it will continue to protect Jerusalem and will continue to protect Jerusalem’s Palestinian national identity.”

[Official PA TV, May 12, 2021]

2021 violent Palestinian riots and Hamas rockets - On May 10, 2021, the terror organization Hamas launched numerous rocket barrages targeting Israeli population centers. Over a period of 10 days, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired over 3,500 rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing 9 Israelis, and 3 foreign nationals (1 Indian caregiver and 2 Thai foreign laborers) and wounding hundreds. In response, Israel launched Operation Guardian of the Walls to target Hamas terror leaders and terror infrastructure. The Israeli army also confronted terror activity in the West Bank, and was deployed to maintain order in Israeli cities with a mixed Jewish and Arab population, where Israeli Arabs violently rioted and attacked Jews with guns, knives, and firebombs, killing 1 Israeli. In return, Jews started attacking Arabs and Arab businesses as well. Hamas’ launching of rockets followed weeks of violent Arab riots in Jerusalem. The PA’s ostensible pretexts for the wave of Arab violence were PA elections being prevented in Jerusalem; Israeli security barricades at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City to prevent disturbances (which were later removed following violent riots); and the planned eviction of several Arab families illegally living in properties in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem owned by Jews who were expelled in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.

The terms “all means,” “all means of resistance,” “all forms,” are ‎used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror ‎against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.