Palestine

During a Ramallah hospital visit to Fatah Gaza spokesman Atef Abu Saif, PA President Mahmoud Abbas cursed the Hamas "dogs" who allegedly beat him up in Gaza, saying that Hamas "should be thrown into the garbage bin of history." The visit was posted on Abbas' YouTube channel on Ma...

Fatah Central Committee Member Jamal Muhaisen said that Hamas is a terrorist movement and that even if it were to rehabilitate the people who were imprisoned or had their arms or legs broken, it would return to its old ways within a matter of months. In a TV interview against the...

Dr. Nasser Al-Laham, editor-in-chief of the Palestinian Authority's Maan News Agency, criticized both Hamas and Fatah in the wake of the Hamas crackdown on protesters in Gaza, saying: "the governments have gone berserk." Al-Laham asked: "What have we adopted from the Arab countri...

Hamas official Rafiq Abu Hani said in a speech that aired on March 17, 2019 on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that the goal of the Palestinians is Jihad for the sake of Allah. He then drew a handgun and brandished it, saying: "We all agree that our weapons – in which lie our honor and s...

On March 18, 2019, Gaza-based Shehab News Agency (Gaza) released a video of sweets being distributed in Khan Yunis in celebration of the March 17 terror attack at Ariel Junction in the West Bank that took the lives of two Israelis. ...

Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh said in a parliamentary session that aired on Roya News (Jordan) on March 18, 2019 that he salutes the Palestinian people, the Jerusalemites, and the murabitat in Palestine. He stood and saluted Omar Abu Laila, "who killed the Jews yesterday." Abu Laila...

In a video that was uploaded to Maan News Agency's Youtube channel on January 16, 2019, Palestinian journalist Dr. Nasser Al-Laham said that Israel has become so arrogant that one day someone angry will drop a nuclear bomb on it and there will be nobody left to say "Boker tov" ("...

In a February 25, 2019 interview on SophieCo on Russia Today TV, Mohammed Ishtayeh, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was asked about his opinion regarding a MEMRI analysis that said that Hamas and the PLO both claim that the other no longer represents the Palest...

On February 19, 2019, Hamas Political Bureau member Fathi Hammad said that the Arab regimes that have normalized relations with Israel will be "buried in the trash heaps of history" alongside the Jews, who are Allah's enemies. He said that the children of Gaza will be taught how ...

On February 24, 2019, Al-Alam TV (Iran) aired a report about the Al-Quds Brigades, which is one of the military wings of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. Abu Hamza, the Brigades' spokesman, said that the Al-Quds Brigades are a comprehensive military system that has many offen...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech that aired on February 19, 2019 on PA TV (Palestinian Authority) that Israel has been taking a three-percent cut of customs and taxes that belong to the PA because it controls the ports and borders. Abbas was addressing a deleg...

Ata Abu Rmeila, the secretary of Fatah's branch in Jenin, was shown brandishing an assault rifle and surrounded by cheering Palestinian men in a video that was uploaded to the internet on February 17, 2019. Gunshots could be heard in the background and the men chanted: "With our ...

In a February 14, 2019 broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), the mother of Muhammad Said Muhammad Ali, a 19-year old Palestinian who was killed when he attacked Israeli policemen with a knife at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, said that her son had been "a lion." She praised how he w...

Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub said in a February 9, 2019 interview on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) that the way to achieve regional peace and stability is to end the suffering of the Palestinians and confront the Israeli occupation. He said that Netanyahu was ...

Gazan scholar Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra, a lecturer at the Shari'a and Law College of the Islamic University of Gaza, said in a February 3, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that it is a religious duty to fight the Jews in Palestine who, he said, occupy the land, vio...

Palestinian Journalist Hussam Al-Dajany, who also lectures at Gaza Open University, said in a January 30, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that Hamas is accepting Bitcoin donations. He said that Bitcoin is an opportunity to unite people who are afraid to or cannot openly...

Professor Maher Al-Susi, who teaches at the Islamic University of Gaza's shari'a school, said during a January 4, 2019 broadcast on Al-Quds TV (Lebanon) that it is a problem that Muslim intellectuals are accepting secular Western ideas such as separation of religion and state. He...

On January 18, 2019, a Gazan comedian Ali Nassman uploaded a satirical music video to his YouTube channel. The song shows Nassman and other young men dressed in humorous costumes and singing: "Hurry up, oh Qatar, where are your dollars and diesel?... The people are besieged and i...

On October 30, 2018, the Islamic State's (ISIS) Al-Hayat media released the eighth installment in its video series "Inside The Khilafah [Caliphate]," which is intended for non-Arabic speakers. This installment was released in Arabic and in English and it highlights ISIS supporter...

For the 54th anniversary of Fatah's founding, an Alkofiya TV (Gaza) reporter visited the Nidal Al-'Amoudi Battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The Nidal Al-‘Amoudi Battalion is a Gaza-based Fatah splinter group that claims to be the true followers of Yasser Arafat’s legacy...

Palestinian cleric Saed Al-Tubasi said in a video posted on January 7 on Alfoz Internet TV (Kuwait) that the desires of the Jews are not limited to Palestine, as evidenced by the blue stripes on the Israeli flag, which he claimed symbolize the Nile and Euphrates rivers. He claime...

On December 17, 2018, London-based political analyst Catherine Shakdam appeared on Press TV (Iran). She praised Hamas for uniting the Palestinian people with their ideology of standing against oppression. She said that the Palestinians will eventually be liberated through armed s...

During a December 23, 2018 interview on Baladna TV (Gaza), Palestinian author Mushir Al-Farra said that the Palestinians should be more cautious while representing their cause on media outlets in order to avoid speaking in a way that weakens it. He gave the several examples of st...

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said in a December 23, 2018, interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) that Iran does not ask anything in return for the aid it provides to Hamas. He added that the presence of an American embassy in Palestine is totally unacceptable, even if it were b...