Arab riots have “announced that… Lod is ours, Ramle is ours,” says Ramallah governor
Official PA TV, special broadcast on violent Arab riots and Hamas rocket barrages
Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam: “Today, in honor of the flag of Palestine that has united the members of the Palestinian people from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River and announced to everyone that Palestine is greater than all the factions, …thousands of residents are coming out in the Ramallah and El-Bireh district, and in all the homeland’s districts. There are those who think that this is a strike or a vacation, but this is a true intifada coming out into the streets in all parts of our people, who have completely understood that this occupier does not distinguish between one faction and another. This occupier wants to kill everything Palestinian; it does not distinguish between one religion and another, because it wants to cancel our Palestinianess in the Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel) and in the occupied Palestinian lands. Today Palestine has announced that it is Palestinian from the sea to the river – against this terror, against this occupation. It has announced that the Sheikh Jarrah [neighborhood of Jerusalem] is ours, Lod is ours, Ramle is ours (i.e., all Israeli cities).”
[Official PA TV, May 18, 2021]