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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The terrorist junta ruling Israel is attempting to exploit what is happening in the Gaza Strip (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas) and the preoccupation of the world and the...”

Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal: “What is our responsibility? …I call upon all of you, together with me and all of us… to [do] more creative things than what we are used to. We want this to be at a higher level. First, the rage – let us go down to the squares and plazas, to the Arab and...”

Official PA TV, broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri: “Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosquefrom the defilement of the criminal infidels,...”

Fatah Spokesperson in Jerusalem Muhammad Rabia: “[In the past the Jews] secretly plotted and prepared projects and plans, which targeted the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Today this is being carried out openly by bringing the red heifers that they [the Jews] will slaughter and scatter their ashes… to purify...”

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

Fatah released a video holding Israel responsible for the 1969 fire at the Al-Aqsa Mosque

PA continues to hold Jews responsible for the fire at Al-Aqsa Mosque

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

Official PA TV News, on the anniversary of the 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque arson by Michael Rohan, an Australian Christian with a mental health disorder PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri: “There is a plan by the occupation that has targeted this site [the Al-Aqsa Mosque]. This plan was...”

Israel and Jews remain the PA’s targets of blame for the 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque arson

PA Foreign Ministry warns: “Israelis will commit a large crime against the Al-Aqsa Mosque”

Fattouh calls on Palestinians to “carry out Ribat” because Israel plans to “create an artificial earthquake to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque”

Jerusalem authorities express strong opposition to Israeli moves supposedly impacting the city’s “legal, religious, and historical status,” warning of division and dangers

Official PA TV program Topic of the Day, hosting Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes from Al-Azhar – a prominent Muslim academic institution in Cairo Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: “Read the history, as your state [of Israel] is transient,the entire occupation is transient, Allah willing...”

PA calls Jewish visits “invasion”

Al-Hadmi: The Israeli government is preparing to “establish the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque”

Cartoon published by the PA shows Ben Gvir as a snail going to Dome of the Rock

Rital Al-Dibs: “From Bethlehem, the city of love, the birthplace of the messiah [Jesus], which is embracing heroic Jenin and Nablus. Peace to every Martyr, you alone are the one who is alive, and we, sir, are all dead. We will pass by Jerusalem and say: Jerusalem is Arab. O Jerusalem! O third...”

Turkish Welfare Party Deputy Chairman: “We declared our support for Palestine and announced that we will not allow the harming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: Israel… is desecrating the Islamic and Christian religious holy sites [in Palestine]… just as it is preventing the Palestinians from their right to freedom of worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), which is an exclusive...

Jerusalem researcher Fakhri Abu Diab: “I think that the occupation is now planning to gradually change the status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with them starting at the Gate of Mercy… and turning it into a place where they will regularly carry out their Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) rituals and their...”

Official PA TV newsreader: “120.000 people prayed the holiday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.” … Jerusalem resident Fadi Mattour: “Praise Allah Master of the Universe, this month [of Ramadan] was very special. It was a wonderful month. The estimates of the [Jordanian] Waqf are that nearly 4...”

Fatah in Jerusalem calls all Palestinians on PA TV to “direct their steps to the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque” because the “settler gangs” will “defile… Al-Aqsa”

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