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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 President denies Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, saying it is all Islamic

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

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina: “The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are among the foundational pillars of history, and they are Palestinian holy places, and not Jewish holy places (sic.) There is no historical proof – despite all the excavations – that...”

PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “Israel has falsified the history of Palestine. Since 1967 Israel has been conducting excavations and has not been able to prove that [it] has a direct or indirect connection [to the land]. (sic.)” [Official PA TV News, March 18, 2023] An abundance of evidence...

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,...

Secretary-General of the International Academic Campaign against Israel Ramzi Oudeh: “[PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] relied on the decision of the Al-Buraq Committee from 1930… that is supposed to be valid until now… Even regarding the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) they...”

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”

WAFA calls the four species “Sukkot plant sacrifices”

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”