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Palestinian Council denounces Israel’s efforts to “erase” Jerusalem’s history, vowing “unity and resistance” against “Judaization”

Hussein calls for filling the Temple Mount on arson anniversary, accusing Israel of “Judaization” and “plotting” Temple construction

Khouri: Jews burned Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Israel prevented from extinguishing the fire

PA calls Jewish visits “invasion”

Official PA TV program Capital of Capitals, on the Western Wall Official PA TV host: This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing...

Official PA TV host: "This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing Wall. And it will return to its original state when the transient settlers leave…..."

Official PA TV narrator: “The illegal (sic.) immigration of the Jews to Palestine: The beginning of the illegal immigration to Palestine was in 1837... The Jewish immigration to the land of Palestine continued as part of a colonialist Zionist plan led by the world powers at the time… But history...”

Director of the National Action Committee in Jerusalem Muhammad Jadallah: “The false Israeli narrative, the alleged Jewish Israeli narrative, that they have relics in this city [of Jerusalem] – [None] of them for dozens of years have succeeded in finding [even] a tiny bit that belongs to them from...”

Habbash denies Jewish history in Jerusalem, saying the Temple Mount along with all its plazas, yards, and the Western Wall “is a pure Islamic heritage”

A short animated filler shows children running through an arched alleyway in the Old City of Jerusalem. On the stone wall above the arch is graffiti showing the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine” in the colors of the Palestinian flag. Around...

The official PA Daily newspaper says “alleged Temple gangs” defile Al-Aqsa through “racist” rituals

Official PA TV narrator: “It is easy to go from [the Austrian Pilgrim Hospice] to the holy sites in the Old City [of Jerusalem], such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Islamic Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall), and even the Mount of Olives.” [Official PA TV,...

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, interview with Palestinian Writers’ General Union Secretary-General Murad Al-Sudani on a conference of Arab writer organizations held in Cairo, Egypt Palestinian Writers’ General Union Secretary-General Murad Al-Sudani: “His Honor [PA] President...”

Granddaughter of terrorist prisoner Ismail Masalmeh: “I am a Palestinian, my name is Palestinian I've etched my name on all the town squares... Saladin (i.e., Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem), calls to me from the depths of my heart All my Arabness calls me to vengeance and liberation... Thousands of...”

Egyptian Israel studies researcher Sa’id Okasha: “Don’t say that the settler is unarmed, or that he isn’t a soldier. It could be that he’s unarmed, but he is sitting on stolen land... When the operation took place in Jerusalem yesterday (i.e., murder of 7 Jews outside a synagogue), the Israeli...”

Official PA Daily denies history and Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, calling the Jewish temple “alleged”

Official PA TV Narrator: "Jerusalem is very important, because it has many important religious sites and locations like the Al-Aqsa Mosque… This mosque is being subjected to a variety of actions of systematic Judaization, including almost daily invasions by the settler herds with the support of the..."

The Waqf calls the Jewish Temple a “myth,” denying Jewish history in Jerusalem

Official PA TV newsreader: “The occupation authorities decided to give permission to 3,000 settlers to invade the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the anniversary of the so-called ‘destruction of the Temple.’” … Official PA TV reporter: “The anniversary of the destruction of the alleged Temple, which comes...”

PA calls Jewish people on Temple Mount “settlers breaking in” while stating that the Jewish Temple is “alleged”

Official PA TV host calls the Jewish Quarter of the Old City the “Mughrabi” Quarter, thereby delegitimizing Jewish presence in Jerusalem

While claiming Israel has no sovereignty over Jerusalem, PA Daily calls annual flag march a "blood dance march" and states that "Zionists waved flags of their defeat by force of the gunpowder and army, but left the occupied city like panicked mice fleeing from the guardians of the city"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh "warned against the dangerous consequences" of Jerusalem Day flag march, praised Arabs carrying out religious land conflict, and stated that "Jerusalem's face, heart, and tongue are Arab, and attempts to change its features and impose an imaginary sovereignty on it will not last"

Official PA Daily calls to "expel Jerusalem from the Zionist herds who are stealing the Palestinian land and Judaism to their lairs" while promising to "mobilize all national efforts to liberate Jerusalem"

PA Grand Mufti of Jerusalem emphasized that the Temple Mount "belongs to the Muslims only, and that no one else has the right to interfere in its affairs – the Palestinians are prepared to sacrifice that which is most precious to them to defend their mosque, regardless of the sacrifices"