Palestine

Fatah Revolutionary Council Member Mphammad Al-Lahham said that Palestinian diplomatic efforts must be combined with "means of struggle." He said that in 1969, Fatah had shelled the building that is now the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and that Fatah should not be expected to "remai...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to remain loyal to the "national enterprise" and saluted Palestinian prisoners and their relatives. In an October 10 statement he posted on his YouTube account on the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death, Abbas said that the Palestinian g...

Former Hamas Minister of Religious Endowments Ismail Radwan said that those who cooperate and collaborate with Israel will be gathered in the Hellfire with the Jews whom Allah transformed into "apes and pigs." He said that those who normalize relations with the Zionist occupation...

Sheikh Iyad Abu Funun appeared in a segment on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV (Gaza Strip) in which he gave viewers advice on how to properly carry out terror attacks. The video shows two young men cleaning and loading guns with a mobile phone on the table next to them, and Abu Funun explaine...

During an interview on the Egyptian Mehwar TV channel, Kuwait's former Minister of Information Sami Abadullatif Al-Nesf praised Oman for supporting the "Deal of the Century" and for wanting to arrive at realistic solutions to the Palestinian issue. Al-Nesf said that the Palestini...

During a Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, Imam Hasan Sabri criticized U.S. President Trump's "Deal of the Century" as "treason," and said that Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land. "If a land is occupied or plundered, it should be liberated from its occu...

Speaking at a PLO Central Council meeting, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian government will continue to pay salaries to the families of martyrs, prisoners, and wounded Palestinians, even if salaries are subtracted from Palestinian money held by Israel...

In an October 2 interview with the Tunisian Musaique FM radio channel, Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi said that people should slap Israeli soldiers, "regardless of whether they did anything or not" and that it should become a "regular thing." She pledged "to continue on the pat...

A recent Al-Manar TV report on the drug problem in the Gaza Strip claimed that the quantities of narcotic pills and bricks of hashish recently destroyed indicate "that the youth of Gaza are being targeted from several directions." Ashraf Abu Sido, Head of Legal Affairs in the Ant...

During an October 19 Friday sermon delivered at the village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the West Bank, the preacher said that the Israeli government had not learned the lessons from history, from "the two times that the Israelites spread corruption upon the land." "They have not learned ...

In an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian preacher Sheikh Abu Mus'ab Al-Hadra criticized Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for having the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi carried out in the Saudi consulate. After spending infinite funds on weapons and forei...

Interviewed on the Palestinian Authority's TV channel, Abdel-Elah Atira, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, said: "I don't want to defend the Oslo Accords, but these accords brought in 850,000 Palestinians, who are now living in the West Bank and Gaza... This figure equ...

Speaking on the Palestinian Authority's official TV channel on October 8, Egyptian political analyst Dr. Wassim Al-Sissy said that Lord Balfour had made three demands of Chaim Weizmann in return for his support for Jewish emigration to Palestine. Al-Sissy, who is a urologist by p...

In an address delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh 'Issam Amira said that Muslims are "undergoing a major crisis regarding the honor of their womenfolk," which he said is being "targeted" more than their lives or property. Pointing to social media, TV, and women leaving the ho...

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, interviewed on France 24 TV on September 17, said that she does not regret expressing her support for Hizbullah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah despite the ensuing outcry. She further said that she agrees with his positions against America a...

Palestinian Judge Sheikh Muhannad Abu Al-Rumi delivered a Friday sermon at the Palestinian village of Khan Al-Ahmar on October 5. Sheikh Abu Al-Rumi criticized "the peddlers of the Deal of the Century" and said that the liberation of Palestine and the departure of the Jews consti...

Mahmoud Al-Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was interviewed on Palestine TV on September 8, 2018. Al-Habbash said that in some cases, a woman's legal testimony might not be enough because her "mental nature cannot yield an authentic testimony." He said ...

Palestinian author Adham Sharkawi was interviewed on Al-Istiqama TV network from Oman. During the interview, he said that according to Islam, the Jews will return to Palestine "in droves, so that they could be killed and slaughtered." Sharkawi said that the Europeans supported th...

During an interview on Turkey's Channel 9 network, Hamas official and political analyst Talal Nassar said that while Hamas has accepted a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders, it does not accept a two-state solution or "relinquish" the rest of Palestine. Nassar gave the ...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki was interviewed on Palestine TV on September 15. Al-Maliki said that Paraguay's moving of its embassy back to Tel Aviv was an important "slap" in the face of the American administration. He said that Palestine filed a complaint against...

During an interview on the Baladna TV network from Gaza, former Mayor of Khan Yunis Dr. Fayez Abu Shamala said:  "Unless the siege is lifted through tahdiya [a ceasefire period,] Gaza will go for an all-out confrontation with the Israelis, with missiles on Tel Aviv and on Be...

Muhammad Al-Hindi, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said that the number of Palestinian refugees was dwindling anyway, noting the destruction of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus and the absorption of the refugees in the general population of the countries where they...