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Official PA TV broadcast part of a n interview with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on unidentified Chinese TV. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “America is the one that stands as an obstacle in front of the two-state solution, because if America had wanted or accepted the two-state principle, then things...”

Editor in Chief of the official PA news agency WAFA Khuloud Assaf: “We are bound by the civil service regulations that are not suitable for the nature of our work as journalists or as a media outlet. This concerns all the official [PA] media and not just [the official PA news agency] WAFA. Like...”

Shtayyeh sends a “message of peace” when talking to foreign diplomats, while still falsely accusing Israel of murdering children

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: Russia’s position [towards the Palestinians] supports justice and international law, and from our perspective that is enough. When you say: “I support the decisions of the international institutions,” this is enough for me, because that is what I want here… This is...

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh spreads libels about Israel at European ceremony, while proclaiming that "the international community must act and move from statements of condemnation to serious steps against Israel"

PA Presidential Office Advisor on Jerusalem Affairs Ahmed Al-Ruweidi warns that Israeli security measures are "tantamount to an attack on a billion Muslims in the world which means the buds of a religious war"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh presents terrorist who shot at Israeli troops as a "Martyr" whose death was a "crime" and "asked Almighty Allah to wrap Al-Fayed in His great mercy and have him dwell in the expanses of Paradise"

PLO top official accuses Israel of "waging a media and diplomatic campaign against Palestinian schoolbooks claiming they spread hate and encourage violence, while ignoring that the Palestinian people is realizing its legitimate right to resist the occupation"

Fatah Revolutionary Council member Iyad Safi states that "just as there are those condemning the Russian occupation in Ukraine, so too the world needs to declare the Israeli occupation a crime" claiming that Israel is "continuing to pierce deep into the blood of our people and our children"

PA Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara speaks out about the PA's financial deficit, unjustly blaming Israel for the "imbalance in the PA’s general financial situation"

PLO Executive Committee "emphasized its opposition to any harming" of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, saying that "UNRWA must continue its work until the problem of the Palestinian refugees is resolved"

PA reports that they've requested the ICC to put Israel on trial for the death of 4 Palestinians during 2014 Operation Protective Edge, saying that Israel's "courts of blind justice cannot be expected to obey the law"

Amidst violent Arab riots on Temple Mount, Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi met with the Head of the Representative Office of Hungary to justify the riots, saying that "our people’s decision is to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque and protect it at all"

Palestinian prisoners and their families will continue to receive a "salary" says Official PA Daily, while mislabelling the terrorists as "prisoners of war" and saying that they seek to "restore their honour"

Supreme Shari’ah Judge of Palestine spreads fearmongering lie that Israel "is striving to commit a dirty and despicable crime at Al-Aqsa Mosque" and promises that "no one in the world will be spared from the furnace of religious war, which will exterminate everything"

Israel is "deliberately and excessively using lethal force against defenceless civilians" lies PA to the UN, twisting the truth which is that due to a lethal wave of Palestinian violence, Israeli troops have been forced to kill terrorists in self-defence

Prime Minister Shtayyeh says "Israel’s justification for the killing of Palestinians as “ticking bombs” warns of a very dangerous escalation which poses great risks to security and stability in the region"

After Islamic Jihad terrorists who shot at Israeli security forces were neutralized, PA "condemns the crime in which the Israeli occupation executed and abducted the bodies of the Martyrs," calling it an "inseparable part of the series of daily murders of Palestinians"

Abbas' Office falsely claims that "Israeli provocations, taking the form of ongoing raids, extrajudicial killings and settler attacks, will plunge the region into the abyss of heightened tensions" and warns that the alleged "Israeli escalation will further exacerbate tensions and destabilize the region"

Rajoub calls Israel "the new Nazis" and says they must "leave or be confronted" – "the occupation will either leave or pay the price and as long as this fascist racist occupation continues it will not enjoy or live in security"

As well as blaming Israeli deductions of terror salaries for all the PA's financial difficulties, Prime Minister Shtayyeh spreads libellous claims about Israel to American Envoy, including that "Israel has destroyed" the peace process, while begging the US Statesman to "stop the Israeli measures against our people"

PA Grand Mufti says Jews visiting the Temple Mount for the festival of Purim is an "aggression that pushes the region towards religious war, from which no one will be spared"

"Occupied Palestine is not the place for any foreign party" says Prime Minister Shtayyeh, while falsely claiming that renovation to the Cave of the Patriarchs constitutes "settlement expansion and Judaization" and bashing new law which prevents Palestinians receiving Israeli citizenship through marriage

Mother of murderer terrorists is "an example of a woman who is fighting and standing firm" says PM Shtayyeh at a ceremony "honouring Palestinian women who are leading and excelling"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh says "Israel is continuing to escalate its measures and attacks" after Palestinian terrorists are killed while committing assaults - Shtayyeh states "we condemn the crime that put an end to the lives of these young people"