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Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “We say to our brothers in Hamas: We stand before a great turning point… The time has come for us [Fatah and Hamas] to reach a compromise. I call on them, on behalf of the Palestinian [PA] leadership, [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas, and the PLO...”

Fatah Secretary in Denmark Walid Zaher: “Our [PA] leadership fought against the UN not to add Hamas to the terror list, and our leadership also did not surrender to the American and international pressures to condemn what Hamas carried out on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ invasion and massacre to...”

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “Who said that Fatah is not participating in the fighting (i.e., Hamas’ terror war on Israel)? Who gave you this information and misled you that we are not participating? ... All the Palestinian organizations in the West Bank are fighting and...”

An Al-Jazeera TV reporter is interviewing a Palestinian man in a hospital in the Gaza Strip. When the reporter hears the man criticizing “the resistance” – a Palestinian euphemism for terror and the terror organizations – he moves away from the man, who tries to follow him to continue the...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Without ending the occupation (i.e., Israel) we will continue to go from one cycle of violence to another. It is the problem. If there is occupation, there is resistance (i.e., violence and terror)...”

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Since the start of the [Israeli] aggression (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas), has anyone heard from us? From the [PA] leadership, from [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the people in the Palestinian leadership – has anyone heard from us one word...”

Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh: “The blood [spilled] in the Gaza Strip, alongside the resistance and the [Izz A-Din] Al-Qassam [Brigades] (i.e., Hamas’ military wing), will defeat this occupier (i.e., Israel), will defeat this enemy… As I said, and I repeat every time, the blood of...”

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “Since the start of Oct. 7 [2023] until now (i.e., Hamas’ terror war on Israel) there are 96 Martyrs [in the West Bank]. All sectors of the Palestinian people are fighting, without connection to their organizational affiliation… The Israeli steps and...”

Hamas Political Bureau member Ghazi Hamad: “We need to educate Israel, and we will educate it a second time and a third time. The Al-Aqsa Flood won’t be [only] one time. No, it will be a second time, a third, and a fourth, because we have the will, the decision, and the capabilities to fight. We...”

The video shows footage of Hamas terrorists invading Israel to commit their massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, at the launch of Hamas’ terror war on Israel – see note below. Terrorists are seen breaking through the Israeli security barrier on the Gaza border and destroying an Israeli tank. In the upper...

Excerpt from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the Cairo Peace Summit on Oct. 21, 2023. In the audience were Arab and European representatives. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We again emphasize our absolute rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides, and [call for] the release of the...”

PA Chairman Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The basis of the problem is the existence of the occupation (i.e., Israel), which has been imposed for more than 7 decades on the Palestinian people… You cannot have peace, security, or stability as long as the occupation...”

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “If not for this occupation (i.e., Israel) there would be no tensions, violence, and fear from any side, and there would be no bloodshed. The occupation is the cause of all the disasters. Israel claims that it is defending itself, but...”

Official PA TV host: “[Israeli PM Netanyahu] said that there will be no PA [ruling Gaza] whose President didn’t condemn what happened to the Israelis. That’s what Netanyahu said regarding Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre of Israelis).” Head of the PLO Political and National Guidance Commission...

The Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch posted a video and text on its Telegram channel showing former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat giving a speech in the Gaza Strip at an unknown date: PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: “Yes… we fight when we want to fight, according to a Palestinian decision,...”

PA Spokesperson: “take serious action to compel Israel to stop” alleged Israeli “aggression” against terrorists, which he considers a crime against the Palestinian people

PA is calling the International Criminal Court to “break its silence and start holding the Israeli war criminals accountable” for stopping terror

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club claims that Israel is holding 13 journalists in prison, ignoring the fact they are terrorists

The PLO emphasized its "absolute rejection of the attempts by a number of states to describe the Palestinian struggle and some of the Palestinian factions and organizations as terrorists"

PLO Council Secretary calls to "expand the scope and pace of participation to a comprehensive rebellion against the Israeli occupation... because popular action, peaceful or non-peaceful, has the ability to realize the Palestinian people’s aspirations in the shortest timeframe"

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “The fact that we are currently using the means of popular resistance does not in any way mean that we have abandoned any means of resistance… On the first page of [Fatah’s political] plan… [it says] that Fatah is still a national liberation movement. It is...”

PA says Abbas' "patience has run out… we will not submit to the Israeli policy of violence and terror, and if this policy continues, more extensive confrontations are expected for us in the paths of popular resistance" terror

Fatah Official Tawfiq Tirawi claims "we are in favour of resistance in all its forms" including "armed resistance" and expresses desire to help Hamas fight Israel from Gaza

“There is no doubt that the Israeli governments throughout history are the main one responsible for this painful reality,” of Arab on Arab violence, alleges PA

PA calls the Balfour Declaration “the most despicable global colonialist plan in history,” and promises that "the conflict" will not end until the declaration is cancelled