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Note: 1980 years before the creation in 1965 of the “Palestinian people,” Judean King Herod built a palace fortress at Herodium, south of Jerusalem. There are no “Palestinian antiquities” at Herodium or anywhere in the land of Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Official PA TV...

“Al-Habbash: Those who do not hold any historical truth in our land will never obtain it through forgery”

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, hosting Director of the Palestinian Heritage Center in Bethlehem Maha Saca Official PA TV host: “First, tell us about your role in preserving the heritage, especially against Israeli theft.” Director of the Palestinian Heritage Center in Bethlehem Maha...

“Director and Guardian of the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., Cave of the Patriarchs) Sheikh Hafzi Abu Sneineh condemned [Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Eli] Cohen’s b reaking into the Ibrahimi Mosque (PMW found no record of Cohen recently visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs –Ed.)… He considered...”

Headline: “Al-Habbash warned against the consequences of the Israeli attack against the Ibrahimi Mosque” “Supreme Shari’ah Judge of Palestine and [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas’] advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash warned of the desecration and attack against the sanctity of...”

Headline: "Condemnations of the aggression against the Ibrahimi Mosque and the opening of a police station of the occupation there" "The [PA] national unity government demanded that the international community and the international organizations and bodies, and primarily UNESCO (UN Educational,..."

Excerpt of an op-ed by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily “Before I watched the Zionist ceremony establishing the American outpost in occupied Palestinian Jerusalem (i.e., the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018) I was very concerned like all of the...”

“The [PA] Ministry of Education and Higher Education condemned the occupation municipality in Jerusalem for distorting the Palestinian [PA] curriculum, and said that this act is a despicable crime of forgery. It emphasized that the religious ruling issued by the Palestinian Dar Al-Ifta (lit. house...”

Headline: “The [PA] government condemns the Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip and the theft of Palestinian money” “The [PA] government condemned the approval of the racist law to deduct the allowances (mukhassasat) of the prisoners and the Martyrs’ (Shahids) families from the Palestinian...”

Headline: “Al-Sudani: We oppose any interference in the Palestinian schoolbooks” “Palestinian [PLO] National Committee for Education, Culture, and Science Secretary-General Murad Al-Sudani emphasized that the occupation authorities’ ongoing violations against the Palestinian education system and...”

Official PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem, on a new synagogue that opened in the Western Wall tunnels on Dec. 19, 2017, hosting Director of Tourism and Antiquities of the Jordanian Waqf Dr. Yusuf Al-Natsheh Official PA TV host: “Underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque (sic., it is not under the Al-Aqsa...”

Headline: "[PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs: The Jewish synagogue under the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the erasure of Jerusalem history" "The Jerusalem unit of the [PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs condemned the fact that the occupation authorities have opened a new Jewish synagogue in the Al-Buraq Wall..."

“In 1998, the PA appointed a French delegation… to conduct excavations at the Tel Es-Sakan archaeological site, which is in the Al-Zahra area in the south of the city of Gaza, but these days it is being leveled and destroyed, despite the decision of the [PA] Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities that...”

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on PA Ambassador to UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) Mounir Anastas being appointed Rapporteur of the UNESCO Cultural Committee, hosting Secretary-General of the PLO Palestinian National Council for Education, Culture, and...

"The [PA] Ministry of Information reiterated on Palestinian Heritage Day that took place today, Saturday [Oct. 7, 2017], that our cultural and human heritage, with all of its components, will continue to resist Israelization and throw off all of the types of terror of the occupation that fabricate,..."

Text and pictures posted on the PA Ministry of Education Facebook page Posted text: “[PA] Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Sabri Saidam emphasized that Jub Al-Dhib School has constituted an honorable example of defiance and resolve against the occupation and its policy of Judaization...”

“[PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah held the government of Israel – as the occupying power – fully responsible for the harm to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque… During the weekly government meeting led by him, which was held yesterday [July 18, 2017] in Ramallah, the prime minister warned against the...”

Headline: “The Martyr Nazzal monument remains” Excerpt of an op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily “At the height of the heated conflict between the [Palestinian] national narrative and the false Zionist narrative that contradicts history and geography, the...”

Headline: “[PA] Ministry of Information: The occupation’s tourism breathes falsification and terror” “The [PA] Ministry of Information said that the occupation’s efforts to advance a tourism project in order to tell the Jewish narrative in the Old [City of] Jerusalem constitute a continuation of...”

“[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Ida’is warned against the dangers of the occupation’s actions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque"

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on the launching of the National Flower of Palestine – Gilboa Iris campaign, hosting Green Life Association Chairman Faisal Zakarneh Green Life Association Chairman Faisal Zakarneh: “This is a flower that grows in the Gilboa Mountains (i.e., in...”

Fatah threatens confrontation with ICC. Jerusalem is "territories of the State of Palestine." Fatah calls for unification in "popular resistance."

Headline: “The Directorate of Religion continues the Ribat activities at the Ibrahimi Mosque” “The Hebron Directorate of Religion (i.e., branch of the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs) continued the procession of loyalty to the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., Cave of the Patriarchs)… with a large official...”

Official PA TV program Culture Talks, with artist and art historian Issam Helles Artist and art historian Issam Helles: “Israel understood how it could deepen its roots in the land of Palestine. It sent many Jews to study the Palestinian folk arts from Palestinians who worked next to tourist sites...”

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on the Nablus tourism festival, hosting PA Ministry of Tourism Director-General of the Northern Districts (i.e., the West Bank) Ibrahim Al-Hafi PA Ministry of Tourism Director-General of the Northern Districts (i.e., the West Bank) Ibrahim Al-Hafi:...