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Interview with Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares on independent Palestinian station Ajyal Radio. Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadura Fares: “[PA] President [Abbas] spoke again in a number of circumstances, even from the UN podium, about the...”

Two ministers in new Palestinian cabinet have made statements supporting terrorism Watchdog uncovers 2002 sermon by religious affairs minister in which he called Jews ‘pigs and apes,’ while women’s affairs minister honored terrorists who killed dozens of Israelis By Gianluca Pacchiani | 1 April...

Biden Admin Hails 'Revitalized' Palestinian Authority. But New Ministers Support Murder of Jews. Andrew Tobin | April 1, 2024 The White House on Friday welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian Authority government, suggesting the West Bank-based PA was on track to take over administration of...

Top PA official Rajoub:The UN permits us to carry outarmed struggle Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:“Regarding the struggle,as a people under occupation we have a right to carry out all forms of struggleand resistance (i.e., alsorefers to use of violence and terror)...”

Official PA TV reporter in Nablus: “We are speaking about extremist settlers who receive their ideological education from rabbis who permit killing Palestinians and permit poisoning water wells.” [Official PA TV, March 20, 2024]

Interview with psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara about how to explain to Palestinian children about the 2023 Gaza war Psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara: “I tell [the children] that Palestine is a blessed land, and therefore they [Israelis] took it from us. That is how I explain the matter [of the war] to...”

Father of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”: “Allah willing, we will meet [our son Uday] (i.e., terrorist) in Paradise of the Master of the Universe, and Almighty Allah will consider him a Martyr. Allah willing, he will be considered a Martyr, always attacking his enemy and never retreating.”...

Brother of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”: “He would take care of all the household needs. I told him: “Go on and get married” … He told me: ‘Actually I want the Dark-Eyed Maidens of Paradise.’ Praise Allah, Allah granted him Paradise, Allah willing he will see the Dark-Eyed Maidens of...”

Mother of terrorist “Martyr”:“I’m prepared to give all my children asransom for Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” Mother of terrorist Uday Al-Zayyat “Abu Saqr”:“I told him: ‘Get married, letme hold your child.’ He said: ‘Allah willing, in Paradise’.I thought he was justsaying that, and every time I...”

Official PA daily columnist Hassan Hmeid: “The West doesn’t surprise me at all (regarding the 2023 Gaza war). This West is white and blond, but it’s barbaric. It views the entire world as a jungle, and it’s the lord of this jungle, and can do whatever it wants. If it breaks a tree, no one says...”

Sheikh Hamed Daraghmeh: “Thus says Allah, you [Israelis] have murdered, burned, slaughtered many, destroyed, caused [us] to flee in every direction, expelled, distanced the people from their homeland, but at the same time, ‘they (i.e., Israelis) will have the punishment of the Burning Fire [in...”

Sheikh Hamed Daraghmeh: “Thus says Allah, you [Israelis] have murdered, burned, slaughtered many, destroyed, caused [us] to flee in every direction, expelled, distanced the people from their homeland, but at the same time, ‘they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire [in Hell]’ [Quran 85:10]…...”

Syrian writer Shahinaz Fakoush: “If the Palestinian woman had not raised her son to follow the path of Martyrdom and the path of loving the homeland, we would not be seeing all that is now in the Gaza Strip. Despite all the destruction, the child sits on the ruins of his home and the ruins of the...”

Official PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas: “An extremist right-wing organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) prepared a report saying that the Red Cross fills out forms for the prisoners and they are submitted to the PA in order to pay salaries to the prisoners. Of course, the director...”

Official PA TV Head of PLO Department of Human Rights, Qassem Awad: “Under the leadership of the PLO, we stand firmly on the Palestinian principles, which our people have never given up on during more than 76 years of occupation (i.e., since Israel’s founding), that is the length of time of the...”

Posted text: “#Watch: ‘A generation will come and [another] generation after it, we will destroy you, Israel!’ – a procession of small children in Jordan as a sign of solidarity with the children of the Gaza Strip (refers to the 2023 Gaza war; see note below -Ed.)” Dozens of Jordanian children are...

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 27, 2024] [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 28, 2024]

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “It is not possible, if we are objective, to call the human Israeli component a ‘nation’. There never existed a Jewish nation nor a nation of Israel. They [Europeans] invented this issue in order to...”

Abbas’ advisor and Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: The Pharaoh of this period, America thinks it can do anything without any draw back, and without any consequences... America used its veto for the third time, to prevent the cessation of the war against our people in the Gaza...

Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta: “The blood of the Martyrs is what is recording the map of the homeland, the map of Palestine – Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, Ramle (i.e., all Israeli cities), the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the capital Jerusalem. Their blood is our compass, and there is...”

Fatah official calls for Hamas-Fatah unity in “one government” during 2023 Gaza war Fatah Revolutionary Council member Tayseer Nasrallah: “We are all in the same boat. Hamas, Fatah, all the national action factions, all the members of the Palestinian people – we are in the same boat. If this boat...”

Official PA TV reporter: “We express our condolences to ourselves and to our people in Palestine over the death of leader [Khaled] Al-Shawish (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of at least 2), one of the prominent founders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (i.e., Fatah’s military wing)...”

Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] are...”

Palestinian National Council member and Fatah Austria Branch Secretary Mundhir Mar’i: “Everyone knows that [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu has been winning the world championship of lies for 20 years. I compare Netanyahu to Goebbels, who was the Nazi propaganda minister who told Hitler: ‘Lie,...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: ‘‘’Your best Jihad is Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic), and your best Ribat is in Ashkelon’ [Hadith]. Where is Ashkelon (i.e., Israeli city)? It’s the coast of...