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Fatah baselessly “explained” that Israel had murdered Arafat

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “If you ask me who is behind the assassination of [former PA President] Yasser Arafat, I will tell you: Israel and [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon. They are behind the assassination… We learned this from the Israeli statements and through...”

Prime Minister Shtayyeh says "Israel is continuing to escalate its measures and attacks" after Palestinian terrorists are killed while committing assaults - Shtayyeh states "we condemn the crime that put an end to the lives of these young people"

Nasser Al-Qidwa: "Israel is the one that poisoned Yasser Arafat and that is the cause of his death"

Official PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech on Jan. 28, 2020

"[Israeli extremists] continued this with the assassination of Martyr and symbol Yasser Arafat"

"The State of Israel decided to get rid of Yasser Arafat on this date…"

"On March 11, 1956, the Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre in the city of Khan Yunis..."

"In his response to the Israeli threats and to the settlers’ incitement to murder him, the president recently told members of the press in Cairo: ‘They can kill me in my home with bullets or with a missile at any given moment. They can also kill me with poison, as they poisoned the late [PLO..."

Excerpt of an op-ed by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily Headline: “The Zionist pawn destroys the PA TV offices” “One who decides to break into the offices of the [Palestine] Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) while masked and to destroy and shatter everything inside it is...”

Headline: "Yasser Arafat the man – a different side of the eternal president’s life" "[Former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat – who the occupation tried to assassinate time after time before it succeeded (sic., Israel did not assassinate Arafat; see note below), on the assumption that..."

Article by Abd Al-Bari Atwan, Palestinian journalist and editor of the online newspaper Rai Al-Yawm: “I remember that he [former PLO and PA President Yasser Arafat] took me aside when we left his office in the Jugurtha neighborhood of Tunis – on the pretext of going out for a walk and in order to...”

Text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page Posted text: “The Oslo Accords: The Oslo Accords determine that the interim stage ends within five years, and I think that we have profited from the interim stage more than is written in the clauses of the Accords. This includes the return of hundreds...”

PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri: "Regarding the mystery of President Yasser Arafat’s death as a Martyr, this is a belief – and I’m one of those who are convinced that he was murdered by poisoning." Wattan TV interviewer: "There is no proof." PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan...

PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri: "Regarding the mystery of President Yasser Arafat’s death as a Martyr, this is a belief – and I’m one of those who are convinced that he was murdered by poisoning." Wattan TV interviewer: "There is no proof." PA Security Forces Spokesman Adnan...

Official PA TV program The Philosophy of Patience, on former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat’s death Official PA TV narrator: "A series of operations (i.e., terror attacks) were carried out, and Israel dealt with them through intensive pursuit and nearly caught Yasser Arafat in Nablus. When they..."

Excerpt of an op-ed by Muwaffaq Matar, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council and regular columnist for the official PA daily Headline: “The day that Mahmoud Abbas overcame Trump’s arrogance” “[US President Donald] Trump’s representative at the [UN] Security Council [US Ambassador to the UN]...”

Text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page Posted text: “The attack against [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has many fronts, and they are all paving the way to one goal: The attempt to steal the popular support from him in preparation for his besiegement, and if they can also kill him, they will...”

Official PA TV, on the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat TV host: "What do you want to tell us?" Boy: "About Yasser Arafat..." Palestinian boy Adnan: "When he – they lifted the siege – when they came before he died – the Jews put poison in his food, and then..."

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, special program for the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat Official PA TV host: “Of course we will not forget that all these years an open issue has remained regarding the murder of late Martyr [Yasser Arafat]...”

Excerpt of an op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily Headline: “Arafat who remains among us” “Thirteen years have passed since the death of leader [and] symbol [former PLO and PA Chairman] Yasser Arafat. They forced him to vacate the scene and poisoned him (see...”

Official PA TV News, special broadcast of the central rally in Gaza to mark the 13th anniversary of the death of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat Official PA TV newsreader: “In an announcement on the 13th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death (Istish’had) of commander Yasser Arafat, the...”

Headline: "Nasser Al-Qidwa: Israel is politically and criminally responsible for the murder of Arafat" "Fatah Movement Central Committee member, Director of the Yasser Arafat Institution, [and Fatah Commissioner of Information, Culture, and Ideology] Nasser Al-Qidwa said that 13 years after the..."

Headline: "The 17th anniversary of the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005)" "Martyr [former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser] Arafat was accused of not making concessions that could lead to the signing of an agreement that outlined the character of the independent..."

Al-Arabiya TV host : “Did [Yasser Arafat] die due to the consequences of the [Israeli] siege, or was he killed by poison during the siege?” PA Chairman Abbas’ advisor Nabil Shaath: “No, the Israelis killed him with poison. I have no doubt of that, not even a millionth of a doubt!” TV host: “Why are...”