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On Feb. 10, 2025, under intense pressure from Western countries, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced the cancelation of the PA Commission of Prisoners' terror rewards program known as Pay-for-Slay, saying that the payments to terrorist prisoners and so-called Martyrs' families would be moved to the Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution (PNEEI) and be based on social welfare criteria.

While many Western leaders have praised the PA for promising to stop paying terrorists in prison, the PA has another huge terror rewards program for released terrorist prisoners with more than 10,000 hidden Pay-for-Slay recipients receiving more than $230 million a year. And the PA has no intention of disclosing it or stopping it. The PA enlarged this already existing program in 2021, when it took nearly 7,500 released prisoners who were receiving payments and moved them from the PA Commission of Prisoners into other frameworks. In addition, there are more than 13,500 families of Martyrs and injured living outside the PA areas who are receiving over $86 million a year. (See part 2)

The PA Prisoners and Released Prisoners Law requires the PA to reward terrorists who were imprisoned for more than five years with lifetime salaries. After Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed in 2020 that there were at least 7,500 released prisoners to whom the PA was paying monthly terror reward salaries, the PA was condemned by the donor countries. As the PA explained: \"Europe, the US, and Israel\" did not accept that the PA paid released terrorists merely because \"they killed.\"

The PA acted quickly. In early 2021, Mahmoud Abbas issued a Presidential Order to \"integrate\" all the thousands of released terrorists receiving Pay-for-Slay salaries into government and PA Security Forces (PASF) jobs, and he changed PA pension laws to enable thousands of ineligible terrorists to receive PA pensions. The PA set up a special committee to work continuously, \"even on vacation days,\" to hide these recipients. By the end of 2021, all 7,500 recipients of terror salaries were erased from the Commission of Prisoners lists and, although unqualified, were granted jobs and pensions to receive their hidden Pay-for-Slay without Western scrutiny.

These recipients are so well hidden that some Western donor countries, to avoid funding Pay-for-Slay, have been designating their support specifically to pay civil servants or PASF salaries and pensions—the very places that the PA has hidden its terrorists.

With this terror reward program below the West's radar, the PA is not planning to stop these terror payouts to released terrorist prisoners. PMW estimates that with these two programs, at least 23,500 terrorists received hidden Pay-for-Slay payments in 2025, amounting to $315 million in hidden Pay-for-Slay.

Part 3 of the report includes transcribed conversations between recipients of Pay-for-Slay in the first months of 2026, confirming that the PA is expanding its Pay-for-Slay by at least 6,000 recipients. The PA is intentionally lying to the US, the EU, France, and other Western countries, while working continuously to find ways to secretly reward Palestinian terrorists.

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In the first week of February 2026, the Palestinian Authority camouflaged the files of 6,000 Pay-for-Slay recipients. The PA turned some of those terrorists into "pensioners," and others are now being paid salaries in the civil service for fictitious jobs, so the payments are obscured from international scrutiny and impossible to monitor.

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Palestinian Media Watch has acquired original copies of the following three conversations held between recipients of Pay-for-Slay.

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Conversation #1: PA disguises 6,000 prisoners and injured terrorists as pensioners:

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"Has anyone received a call from any government office and been asked to provide a bank account number in the last two weeks?"
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[There was no response.]
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"How many times have we told you: demand, demand, demand [your payments]. And what happened? The whole matter was reduced to only 6,000 cases that were transferred to [government] offices, and now they're verifying their names, calling them, and asking for active bank account numbers to deposit their salaries."
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Member A: "Who told you?"
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Member B: "Who is this about?"
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Member C: "On what basis did they choose the 6,000?"
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Member B: "No one knows."
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"This is the issue: The wounded and prisoners – 6,000 of them [had their files] transferred to pensions in different offices, and they are now registered there, and they are calling them one by one, asking them for bank account numbers to confirm them as pensioners."
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There was great frustration that no one in this particular group of Pay-for-Slay recipients had been notified that they were among the 6,000 new camouflaged members.

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Conversation #2: Released prisoner: I went to the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and they confirmed that salaries for released prisoners are being paid and "all matters will be resolved:"

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"I was at the [PLO] Commission [of Prisoners' Affairs], I went to have them sign my insurance and asked them about the salaries. They told me word for word that there are currently salaries for those who served 5 years, meaning for released [prisoners] who served 5 years or more. They are given a salary of 1,500 [Israeli] shekels ($500 - ed.), and those who served 10 years are given a salary of 3,000 shekels ($1,000 - ed.), as he told me. I asked him, what about someone who is under 5 years. He told me word for word, come back to us in a month, Allah willing the issues will be resolved. In other words, don't [complain] every day: 'The salaries, the salaries, the salaries.' Allah willing, from now on the matters will be resolved."
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Conversation #3: All families of Martyrs and wounded will be moved to government offices

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Member A: "Good morning. We have learned that the issue with the last payment is being fixed. There will be allowance payments soon, Allah willing. And we have learned that the committee that was established is studying several proposals to handle the matters definitively. When approval and agreement on a procedure [is reached], we will inform you about it... and coordinate the necessary steps with you, with Allah's help. Explicitly, they are going to divide up [the families of] the Martyrs and the wounded across government offices."
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Member B: "Okay. So we understand from this that there will be a payment soon[?] ... At the same percentage. Will they commit[?]"
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Member A: "The old percentage of your salary. The [PA] Labor Ministry took on some of those [Martyrs and wounded] who weren't paid. Other government offices also took on those about whom there is no [information]. PNEEI is done with; this is the last salary we receive from them. Do you understand? Be well."
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Member B responds to Member A: "That's what I meant."
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Member A: "Sure, the [old] percentage of your salary."
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Member B: "Okay. The distribution to government offices [will be] under which clause [?]"
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Member A: "There will be a payment before Ramadan."
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All of these authentic conversations among recipients of Pay-for-Slay confirm beyond a doubt that the PA is intentionally lying to the US, the EU, France, and other Western countries, claiming to have stopped Pay-for-Slay, while working around the clock to find ways to secretly continue rewarding Palestinian terrorists.

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In April 2025, long before the Palestinian civil engineer Ali Shaath imagined that he would be asked to chair the future administration of Gaza, he spoke on a podcast. Not yet hindered by the need to present himself as a moderate, he let his views about Israel and terror be known. And his ideology is taken directly from the Palestinian Authority's playbook of hate and terror promotion.

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First and most important, Shaath declared the existence of Israel to be an American and European colonial implant. Shaath, the so-called apolitical leader to build Gaza, sees Israelis as foreigners and denies Israel's right to exist:

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Civil engineer Ali Shaath: "This colonialist [Israel] who was planted by America and Western Europe – they planted it in Palestine since the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration)."
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[Ahmad Biqawi, YouTube channel, April 24, 2025]
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This fundamental hate message of the Palestinian Authority is the PA's justification for promoting Palestinian terror and is behind the PA's ideology that Israel's destruction would be historical justice. Shaath's worldview that Israel is a colony in the service of America should immediately invalidate him from any role in Gaza.

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Accordingly, during the interview, he uses the PA term for Israel—"the occupation"—instead of calling Israel by name. In the PA lexicon, all of Israel is an "occupation," and all Israeli cities are "settlements."

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Shaath also bragged about his role as a terror organizer in his youth.

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Civil engineer Ali Shaath: "Like every Palestinian I did an activity with young people at school, demonstrations against the Israeli occupation, and we would stand in areas where there are checkpoints of the occupation (i.e., Israel) and their positions and throw rocks at them… We set this day ablaze, and I actually was the organizer of this activity or this national act in the city of Khan Yunis [in the Gaza Strip]. I succeeded in awakening all the opinions and feelings of the people and they set out to the occupation's positions."
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[Ahmad Biqawi, YouTube channel, April 24, 2025]
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If the United States wants this experiment for Gaza's future to have any chance of success, it must immediately remove Shaath from his position and appoint a replacement who is honest enough to recognize Israel's history and its right to exist and brave enough to say it publicly.

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Since late December, Palestinian Media Watch has been targeted by a sustained campaign of cyberattacks aimed at undermining access to our website and undermining our impact. Our cybersecurity team has identified persistent and coordinated intrusion attempts from infrastructure in multiple regions, primarily China and Iranian-controlled areas of Iraq.

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While technical indicators cannot attribute these attacks to specific actors, the sophistication, precision, and clear strategic intent behind the activity point to a well-organized operation, far beyond the scope of isolated hackers or digital vandalism. This campaign appears designed to suppress PMW's exposure of the Palestinian Authority's support and rewards for terrorists, hate-promotion, and systematic Antisemitism.

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Among the clear indicators is a sharp increase in targeted interference from specific countries. For example, hostile connection attempts linked to Chinese infrastructure have risen by more than 650% each week, resulting in a huge number of attempts, as can be seen from these analytics captured by our monitoring tools.

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Palestinian Media Watch notes that these coordinated attempts to suppress PMW's impact only emphasize its importance. PMW will continue its mission: to document PA/Fatah/Hamas hate and terror-promotion activities, statements, and policies, thus ensuring that the public, and decision-makers in particular, have the information they need.

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Palestinian Media Watch reported yesterday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its Pay-for-Slay payments outside the PA areas beyond US and EU donor oversight. Families in Jordan and Syria confirmed the salaries were paid yesterday. Today, families in Lebanon also reported receiving their Pay-for-Slay payments while families in Egypt were told "Thursday or the beginning of next week."

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So, how is the PA keeping these monthly terror salaries flowing without triggering EU and US scrutiny?

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The PA's own budget exposed the foreign Pay-for-Slay payments

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The PA's 2017 budget book included a breakdown of how many "Martyrs and wounded" families receive monthly allowances—both inside and outside PA-controlled areas. (The PA has not published the figures about the number of Martyr family recipients since 2017.) Although the file is no longer available online, PMW downloaded it at the time.

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The relevant section on page 622 states:

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"13,500 families of Martyrs and wounded received monthly allowances. The Institution [for Care of the Families of the Martyrs and the Wounded] pays monthly allowances to the families of the Martyrs and the wounded through the institution's branches abroad."
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The budget continues:

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"21,500 families of martyrs and wounded inside the homeland (the PA areas and Israel) received allowances. Providing financial allowances to the families of the Martyrs and the wounded inside the homeland through the institution's branches."
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This was the PA admitting—in its budget—that it maintained an organized foreign-branch system to pay 13,500 terror "allowances" outside the "homeland."

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The minimum foreign Pay-for-Slay total: NIS 18.9 million per month

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Under PA regulations, the minimum monthly payment to "Martyrs' families" is 1,400 shekels.

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The 2017 figure for overseas recipients:

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13,500 families × 1,400 shekels = 18,900,000 shekels per month

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This figure of 18.9 million is clearly a minimum for 2026:

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Payments rise based on family status (+400 shekels for a wife and +60 shekels for each child). For simplicity, PMW has ignored the extras.
The number of eligible "Martyrs" families has certainly increased since 2017.
PMW did not calculate the exiled Palestinian released terrorist prisoners who have continued to receive monthly payments.

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The method: The PA hides foreign payments under the PLO heading

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This money avoids EU and US donor scrutiny because the PA does not pay terrorists' families outside the country through the PA's local Commission of Prisoners. Instead, the PA routes payments through the PLO, where donors are not demanding transparency. Donors scrutinize PA payments; donors do not scrutinize PLO payments. The PA exploits that gap.

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Looking at the PA transfers to the PLO in 2025 confirms PMW's analysis. In 2025, the PA reported transferring to the PLO 269,434,600 shekels, averaging 22.5 million shekels per month, listed as "transfer expenses"—the budget category used to describe the terrorist payments.

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That number aligns cleanly with what the PA already documented in 2017:

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Foreign terror payments in 2017 were NIS 18.9 million/month (minimum)
A 2025 monthly transfer average of NIS 22.5 million/month to cover these "transfer expenses" reflects an expected increase over eight years

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Case study: Ahlam Tamimi — paid in Jordan, protected from scrutiny

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This month, Ahlam Tamimi should have received 6,000 shekels, bringing her total PA salary since arrest to 1,158,800 shekels.

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Tamimi is one of the most notorious freed terrorists. She orchestrated the Sbarro restaurant bombing, in which 16 people—including 8 children—were murdered. Two victims were US citizens. After being released in the Gilad Shalit deal, Tamimi was exiled to Jordan.

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According to PA law, released prisoners continue receiving monthly salaries. Tamimi has therefore continued receiving her PA salary while living outside PA areas. As a celebrated PA figure, there is no reason her payment would have stopped, meaning she certainly would have received her salary yesterday with the thousands of other Jordanian Pay-for-Slay recipients.

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PMW recommendation: Force transparency where the PA is hiding the money

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If the US and EU want to seriously eliminate Pay-for-Slay, they must stop ignoring PA transfers to the PLO.

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PMW recommends that the US and EU demand full disclosure of the recipients of "transfer expenses" in the PLO's budget, including the names and countries of where the PA is paying terrorists and their families beyond donor oversight.

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As long as the donors turn the other way and ignore the foreign payments, even the PA "reform" of Pay-for-Slay will remain a sham, and Pay-for-Slay will continue, on schedule, every month.

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• Four hours ago, recipients of Palestinian Authority terror payments living in Jordan reported receiving their Pay-for-Slay salaries.
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\n• Dozens of payments were made to accounts in known banks.

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Recipients of Palestinian Authority terror stipends residing in Jordan reported over the last three hours that their monthly payments had been deposited into their bank accounts. According to multiple firsthand accounts, the sums transferred were identical to those received previously, suggesting that the payment scale remains unchanged. Reports further indicate that dozens of transfers were processed through recognized banking institutions.

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Palestinian Media Watch has received confirmation from several recipients and a shared bank notification.

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In one exchange, a recipient announced:

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"Jordan salaries have officially entered the bank – for released prisoners and wounded. Praise Allah."
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Another responded:

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"Praise Allah... Hopefully soon to us as well."
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A third participant asked whether the payments had been reduced:

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"How much did you get, at what rate? As before or reduced?"
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The reply came back:

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"As before."
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An administrator in the same discussion added:

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"Payment in Lebanon [will also be] today, please Allah."
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Additional correspondence echoed the same development. One individual wrote:

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"The salaries of the Martyrs in Jordan have been deposited, so they say."
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Another replied:

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"Right, they were transferred to the banks, we are waiting for the banks," followed again by: "Praise Allah."
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Further details emerged from a recipient describing a family member's visit to an official office handling these payments in Jordan:

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"Today my sister was at the office of the Martyrs and Wounded Families in Jordan... They told her that the order to transfer the payment to the families of the Martyrs has been issued, and today the money will be deposited in the bank accounts. [They also said that] those who do not receive regular deposits in the bank will receive them at the office [of Martyrs and Wounded Families]. People started receiving today… She was told it was August's salary."
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The same individual added a complaint about non-payment elsewhere:

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"Well, and we in Gaza who receive salaries of military Martyrs, what shall we do [they have not been paid]? By Allah, our situation is grave."
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One recipient also shared a screenshot of a bank notification, with identifying details removed:

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"Salary received in the amount of JOD ---- to account No. ---- [numbers deleted] on January 26, 2026. Log in to your account using the online banking service or the Arab Bank App."
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Meanwhile, in Ramallah there are demonstrations today because terrorists living under the PA have not yet received payments.

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Conclusions

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According to PMW's assessment, the Palestinian Authority continues to distribute terror salaries despite prior assurances to Western donor countries that such payments had been canceled and replaced with welfare-based assistance. The payments now appear to be continuing in areas believed to be beyond direct donor oversight, including Jordan and Lebanon. While the PA has clearly not yet determined how to do so in the PA areas without attracting international scrutiny, an official from Fatah, the PA's ruling party, revealed earlier this month that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has indicated his intent to maintain payments to all recipients:

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Fatah Revolutionary Council Deputy Secretary Fayez Abu Aita: "What we heard from His Honor [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, and according to what all those involved in the matter and present emphasized, is that there is a plan to maintain all our duties and commitments towards our sons, the sons of the Martyrs, towards our sons, the sons of the Palestinian prisoners (i.e., terrorists) and the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation's (i.e., Israel's) prisons… This group is the best of the Palestinian people. For many years we heard late Martyr [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat say: The best of my people are in the prisons. And President Mahmoud Abbas said: If the PA had only one penny left, we would spend it on our prisoner sons and their families, because they have shouldered the burden of sacrifice and the Palestinian national enterprise."
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[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Jan. 12, 2026]
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8,000 PA Security Forces to be trained by Egypt, Jordan and the EU, to control the Gaza Strip
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"[PASF] Police forces are training in Egypt and Jordan, and they may number in the thousands. They will return to the Gaza Strip"
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As the US launches today the second phase of the 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip, one component that could guarantee that terror returns is the inclusion of the PA and its terrorist PA Security Forces (PASF) to run Gaza.

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Palestinian Media Watch has repeatedly exposed not only the fundamental terror role played by Fatah and the PASF but also the repeated bragging by PASF, PA and Fatah officials about their primary role in terror. Just last week, a senior Palestinian leader again bragged about the leading terror role played by Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and the PA Security Forces:

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Host's question: "The Fatah Movement has effectively abandoned the armed struggle. What is your response?"
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Fatah Central Committee member, Abbas Zaki: "This is slogan talk that does not reflect reality. Look at the [Palestinian] prisoners in the [Israeli] prisons before Oct. 7, 2023 (i.e., Hamas' attack), most of them are from Fatah. Look at the lists of Martyrs and graves, most of them are from Fatah… If Fatah had abandoned its struggle, it would not have such a large number of prisoners, which is equal to the total number of prisoners of all the other Palestinian movements, and even several times more than that of its rivals and competitors (i.e., Hamas, PFLP, etc)… A large number of Security Forces commanders died as Martyrs and carried out special operations (i.e., terror attacks), and this is conclusive proof that this people, and this Fatah, cannot be easily contained or tamed."
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[Arabi 21, London-based Arab news website, Jan. 9, 2026]
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Israeli PM Netanyahu has explicitly stated that Israel won't accept that either Hamas or the PA will rule Gaza. Yet the PA's official daily reported that Egypt is training up to 5,000 PA Police officers from the Gaza Strip to undertake "security tasks" there, after the end of the war." Moreover, the EU plans to train 3,000 police officers from the Gaza Strip:

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"A senior Palestinian official revealed that police officers in the Palestinian [PA] police from the Gaza Strip are receiving training in Egypt to participate in a force that is supposed to take on security tasks in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war (i.e., Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below -Ed.).
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced… that Egypt is working on a plan to train 5,000 Palestinian officers and security personnel in Cairo, in preparation for their deployment in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war.
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A senior Palestinian official told AFP that more than 500 police officers and police officials underwent operational and theoretical training in Cairo in March, and that hundreds more have been continuing similar training since the end of September...
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The Palestinian official clarified that those who recently underwent training will be part of a force comprising 5,000 police officers, all from the Gaza Strip but receiving their salaries from the PA.
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The Palestinian official said that the Egyptian training program is being conducted in coordination with the PA.
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A high-ranking security officer in the PA said that [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas instructed [PA] Minister of Interior Ziyad Hab Al-Rih to coordinate with Egypt to train the police and security force in the Gaza Strip...
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A senior European official in Brussels reported that the European Union (EU) intends to train approximately 3,000 police officers from the Gaza Strip outside the Gaza Strip. Since 2006, the EU has been funding a delegation to train the [PA] police in the occupied West Bank, with a budget of approximately 13 million euros (about $15 million) [parentheses in source]."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 1, 2025]
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Similar information was reported on official PA TV by a Palestinian official, Ramzi Oudeh, that thousands of PA Security Forces members are training abroad for later when they will "restore control" over the Gaza Strip:

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Secretary-General of the International Academic Campaign against the Israeli Occupation and Apartheid Ramzi Oudeh: "The information I have, although unofficial, says that… there is a large number from the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces [such as] police forces that are training in Egypt and Jordan, and they may number in the thousands. They will return to the Gaza Strip and restore control over it. It is also impossible to imagine stabilization forces without the presence of a substantial Egyptian force... Some of the Islamic states like Indonesia and Pakistan may send small forces and the like, but the essential force will be a burden on the Palestinian and Egyptian forces, the major burden will be on them... Regarding the American force, its purpose is supervision, meaning its purpose is guidance and supervision."
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[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Nov. 23, 2025]
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Placing the terrorist PASF to rule the Gaza Strip would replace the Hamas terror organization with the Fatah terror organization, and this, by the PA's own admission and bragging. If the US wants a quick solution, grabbing some available terrorists might create a perception of progress. If the US wants a terror-free Gaza Strip, it will have to find another solution.

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The following is a longer excerpt of the report in the official PA daily:

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Headline: "Egypt trains a Palestinian police force to participate in maintaining security in the Gaza Strip after the war"
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"A senior Palestinian official revealed that police officers in the Palestinian [PA] police from the Gaza Strip are receiving training in Egypt to participate in a force that is supposed to take on security tasks in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war (refers to Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below -Ed.).
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced in August [2025], during a visit to the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing together with his Palestinian counterpart [PA Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs] Muhammad Mustafa, that Egypt is working on a plan to train 5,000 Palestinian officers and security personnel in Cairo, in preparation for their deployment in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war.
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A senior Palestinian official told AFP that more than 500 police officers and police officials underwent operational and theoretical training in Cairo in March, and that hundreds more have been continuing similar training since the end of September...
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The Palestinian official clarified that those who recently underwent training will be part of a force comprising 5,000 police officers, all from the Gaza Strip but receiving their salaries from the PA.
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The Palestinian official said that the Egyptian training program is being conducted in coordination with the PA.
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A high-ranking security officer in the PA said that [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas instructed [PA] Minister of Interior Ziyad Hab Al-Rih to coordinate with Egypt to train the police and security force in the Gaza Strip...
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Mahmoud (pseudonym) [parentheses in source], a deputy-level officer who participated in the first course, said that the training included theoretical security and policy lectures, which dealt with the ‘implications' of Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ‘damage' to the Palestinian cause.
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He added that the lectures also addressed the role of the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, and in ‘maintaining the dream of establishing the' Palestinian ‘state'...
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A senior European official in Brussels reported that the European Union (EU) intends to train approximately 3,000 police officers from the Gaza Strip outside the Gaza Strip. Since 2006, the EU has been funding a delegation to train the [PA] police in the occupied West Bank, with a budget of approximately 13 million euros (about $15 million) [parentheses in source]."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 1, 2025]
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For its anniversary video, Fatah chose to feature Abu Iyad—head of Black September who planned the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre in which 11 athletes were murdered—and Abu Jihad who planned terror attacks in which 125 people were murdered
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Fatah "renews oath" of Abbas and Arafat: "Flag of Palestine" will fly "over Jerusalem" and "revolution until victory"
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Celebrating the 61^st anniversary of the launch of the Fatah terror organization, PA Chairman Abbas' movement uploaded several videos and posts to social media to remind Palestinians that Fatah was and remains a terror organization. One of them stressed that "Jihad" remains part of Fatah and that it can fight Israel "any way" it wants. For emphasis, Fatah posted this video at least three times in the days leading up to the anniversary.

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The video archive included footage of terrorist Salah Khalaf "Abu Iyad," who headed the terror organization Black September when it murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and arch-terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir "Abu Jihad," who was responsible for the murder of 125 people in different attacks:

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Terrorist Salah Khalaf "Abu Iyad": "We went to Fatah to realize the slogans of Jihad. It is our right to fight in the way we see fit."
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Terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir "Abu Jihad": "The only thing we rely on is this willpower, which does not waver and will never waver in any way!"
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[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Dec. 25 and 31, 2025, Jan. 1, 2026]
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In another video, Fatah included archive footage of speeches by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. Both statements express hostility toward Israel. Abbas recalls Arafat's "oath" that "a [Palestinian] boy or girl will wave the flag of Palestine" over Jerusalem. The quote expresses the political and religious aspiration for Palestinian sovereignty over Jerusalem Israel's capital city. The footage of Arafat shows him shouting his famous slogan coined in the 1960s: "Revolution until victory." The words express continued terror against Israel and reject compromise in favor of total "liberation of Palestine." The three words have since been adopted as the official slogan of Fatah:

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "This is our oath, that a [Palestinian] boy or girl will wave the flag of Palestine over the mosque minarets of Jerusalem and the churches of Jerusalem."
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Former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: "We swear, we swear that the procession will continue until victory, until victory, revolution, revolution until victory."
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Text on screen: "We do not recall history, rather we renew an oath."
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Posted text: "On the anniversary of Fatah's Intilaqa, we do not recall history – rather we renew an oath.
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[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Telegram channel, Dec. 31, 2025]
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Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed additional statements by Fatah glorifying terror against Israel. Fatah's terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, promoted "armed struggle" as the "foremost" form of "resistance."

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Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf)

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Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir)

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PA sees Maduro as a great leader:

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Maduro is among "great leaders who are restoring the memory of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara."

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PA in 2018 after US threats against Maduro, following his first fraudulent election:

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"The new cowboy [US President Trump] blatantly threatened a sovereign state – Venezuela – and its president. He announced that his administration will attack President Nicolás Maduro and unequivocally incited the army to carry out a coup against a president who was legally elected. He also attacked socialism as if his capitalist system is in better shape..."

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The Palestinian Authority has had a special and warm relationship with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, and before him with Hugo Chavez, as one of soulmates. The PA has actively and openly placed itself firmly in the camp of the notorious human rights-abusing Venezuelan dictators. Following the US raid and arrest of President Maduro and his wife, the PA has remained silent for now, fearing a US reaction to its support for Maduro.

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However, the PA camaraderie with Maduro is fundamental to PA policy. A few months ago, when President Trump started to threaten Venezuela, the PA held an anti-American demonstration at the Venezuelan embassy in Ramallah in support of Maduro. Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam participated and posted her anti-American messages and pictures on her Facebook page:

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Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam: "As a sign of rejecting the American threats against friendly Venezuela, I participated in the solidarity vigil that was organized by the national forces in front of the Venezuelan Embassy building of Caracas in the State of Palestine in order to affirm our people's support for the people and government of Venezuela."
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[Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam, Facebook page, Sept. 18, 2025]
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Mahmoud Abbas' appointee, Ahmad Assaf, who is the director of official PA TV, has a small statue of the late Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez, prominently displayed in his office to show all visitors where the PA's ideology and values stand.

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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 10, 2025]

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The PA has prominently supported Latin American dictators for years. In 2024, Venezuela held an election, and according to opposition sources, 70% voted against Maduro. Many Western democracies declined to recognize Maduro's election. Consistent with its historic support for communist dictators, the PA welcomed Maduro's rule, and Abbas sent his special envoy to the inauguration.

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"President Abbas' Advisor on International Affairs and Special Envoy Minister Riyad Al-Malki participated in the inauguration ceremony of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, as the representative of President Mahmoud Abbas…
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Al-Malki conveyed President Mahmoud Abbas' congratulations to President-elect Maduro and wishes for success in serving his country and his people… He also emphasized that the State of Palestine is showing interest in strengthening the relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in all areas of common interest."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 12, 2025]
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In 2024, the PA sent Fatah leader Abbas Zaki to an event in Venezuela under the auspices of President Maduro. The PA leader praised the human rights-abusing communist dictators of Latin America and compared Maduro to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara:

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"Thank Allah who created in Latin America – which is geographically far but closest to the Palestinians' hearts – great leaders who are restoring the memory of [former Cuban President] Fidel Castro and [former Communist leader Che] Guevara like President Maduro."
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Maduro, in turn, expressed his support for the PA: "Maduro described what is happening in Palestine as the Israeli occupation committing a genocide against the Palestinian people for 75 years," i.e., since Israel's creation [Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, June 18, 2024].

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In 2023, Mahmoud Abbas sent the Chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, to Venezuela to deliver a personal message from Abbas to Maduro:

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"Fattouh also laid a wreath of flowers on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas on the monument of historic leader Hugo Chavez."
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[WAFA, official PA news agency, July 27, 2023]
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[Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh, Facebook page, July 28, 2023]
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The PA has long been in the political camp of communist dictators and has acted against US interests. In 2018, Western democracies also rejected Maduro's election victory and announced that they would recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader. Russia, China, Mexico, Syria, Iran, and Turkey supported Maduro while the US, EU, Canada, Israel, and some countries in Latin America backed Guaidó. Aligning with the anti-democratic regimes, the PA rallied behind Maduro.

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PA Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad Al-Malki participated in Maduro's inauguration ceremony and brought Maduro personal congratulations from Mahmoud Abbas:

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"Al-Malki congratulated President Maduro on receiving the presidency, wished him success in his service of the Venezuelan people, and conveyed to him the congratulations and wishes of [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership that always stands by Venezuela and its people, as Palestine does not forget its friends."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 12, 2019]
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The PA Foreign Ministry "condemned several states" for their "interference" against him:

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"The PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its concern given the events taking place in Venezuela and condemned several states' interference in the state's internal affairs and direct [interference] through support for the coup attempt against legally elected President Maduro."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 25, 2019]
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PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Majdalani attacked the US and also accused it of "interference" in Venezuela's affairs while condemning the "coup attempt" against Maduro:

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"The blatant American interference in states' affairs, as is happening in Venezuela, is a direct continuation of the policy of [US President Donald] Trump's administration, whose goal is to usurp the will of the peoples... and [condemned] the coup attempt against the legitimacy of elected President Maduro."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 25, 2018]
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The PA official daily reported on demonstrations supporting Maduro:

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"The Palestinian and Venezuelan peoples face the same enemy - which is the US."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 25, 2019]
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An op-ed in the official PA daily ripped into US President Trump's speech at the UN about Venezuela:

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"The new cowboy (i.e., US President Donald Trump) blatantly threatened a sovereign state – Venezuela – and its president. He announced that his administration will attack [Venezuelan] President Nicolás Maduro and unequivocally incited the army to carry out a coup against a president who was legally elected. He also attacked socialism as if his capitalist system is in better shape..."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 27, 2018]
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Subsequently, protesters held posters with Venezuelan and Palestinian flags at a solidarity rally in Ramallah, where PA leaders also participated. One poster showed pictures of Donald Trump with an "X" across his face and the words: "American Imperialism, Enemy of the Nations..

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The rally participants chanted: "America is the head of the snake, blessings from Ramallah to proud Caracas."

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[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 21, 2019]

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As a sign of the friendship, the Palestinian embassy in Venezuela erected a statue of "President Martyr Yasser Arafat in Liberator Simon Bolivar Monument Square." PA Ambassador Linda Sobeh "again emphasized Palestine's support for Venezuela in light of the situation that it is going through (i.e., violent clashes between regime and opposition forces following Maduro's fraudulent election)" [official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 17, 2019].

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As a further sign of camaraderie, the PA named a hospital after the dictator, which was called "the Palestinian-Venezuelan Hugo Chavez Eye Disease Hospital… according to the instructions of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, and [which] constitutes a source of Palestinian national pride [official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 1, 2018].

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Support for Maduro is shared across the spectrum of Palestinian factions. For example, Laila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who hijacked a plane in 1969 and again in 1970, personally addressed Maduro at the International Conference on Solidarity with Palestine in Venezuela in 2024 and exclaimed:

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"We would not have been here if there were no freedom and dignity on this Venezuelan soil, where there is a heroic people who deserve a great leader. Therefore, I say to President Maduro: my comrade, my president, our president, we are very proud of you."
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With the Palestinian Authority desperate for US aid and support as it seeks to have a position of power in some future Gaza entity, the PA can be expected to hide these opinions and its support for anti-American and communist regimes around the world. Therefore, it would be wise policy for the US to understand the true ideology and partnerships the PA has developed, and to draw conclusions about what they reveal regarding the PA's values, before accepting it as a legitimate entity or considering it for any role in Gaza.

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"Violence and murder crimes in the Palestinian society" within Israel is because of "a conspiracy by the Israeli police" – official PA daily
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Israeli Arab libels Israel: Israeli "government is behind every act of murder" in Israeli Arab society
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In 2025, the number of murdered Arab citizens of Israel reached a record high of 252. Most of these killings were linked to organized crime organizations, clashes between rival clans, family disputes, and honor killings [i24 News, Dec. 28, 2025].

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But not if you ask the Palestinian Authority.

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The PA claims – and wants the Palestinian public to believe – that the many killings of Arabs by Arabs in Israel are the result of a "conspiracy by the Israeli police":

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"The number of those murdered in the Palestinian society in the Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel) [has reached] 234 since the start of the current year [2025]...
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This is in the shadow of a severe and unprecedented rise in cases of violence and murder crimes in the Palestinian society within the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), against the backdrop of a conspiracy by the Israeli police and negligence in performing its duty: fighting crime."
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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 27, 2025]
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Similarly, Director of Arab popular committees in the Triangle region of northern Israel Sheikh Khairi Iskandar, an Israeli Arab citizen, stated that it is the Israeli government that is "behind every murder attempt, and behind every act of murder":

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Official PA TV host: "This year there has been an increase in murders and violence offenses against women in the Arab community [in Israel], bringing the total number of victims since the beginning of the year to 20 women." …
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Director of Arab popular committees in the southern Triangle region of northern Israel Sheikh Khairi Iskandar: "We believe and assume that the [Israeli] government is behind every murder attempt, and behind every act of murder."
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[Official PA TV, Panorama, Nov. 25, 2025]
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Palestinian Media Watch has shown that the PA as policy blames Israel for every internal problem in Palestinian society and within the Israeli Arab community in Israel. According to the PA, terror attacks and murder of Jews worldwide are Israel's fault too, as was the Bondi massacre in Sydney.

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The following is a longer excerpt of the PA's report on the number of killed Israeli Arabs in 2025:

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"Yesterday morning, Wednesday, [Nov. 26, 2025,] a 40-year-old man was murdered in a shooting crime in the town of Tel Sheva in the Negev (i.e., in southern Israel; refers to murder of Arab man by Arab gunmen)...

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This brings the number of those murdered in the Palestinian society in the Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel) to 234 since the start of the current year [2025]...

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This is in the shadow of a severe and unprecedented rise in cases of violence and murder crimes in the Palestinian society within the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), against the backdrop of a conspiracy by the Israeli police and negligence in performing its duty: fighting crime."

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[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 27, 2025]

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When Israel released 734 terrorists in exchange for Israeli hostages, PMW wanted the world to understand the full extent of PA terror rewards. We created a table (see below, a portion of the table) showing the reward that each released prisoner received, which totaled over half a billion shekels and resulted in 316 new Palestinian terrorist millionaires. We sent this to the media and posted it on Twitter, where it was retweeted by figures like former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and military expert John Spencer, receiving over 2,048,000 views. It was reported by major news agencies and media worldwide such as The Wall Street Journal. The resulting outrage led to increased US pressure on the PA. The following month, the PA announced that it would end its "Pay-for-Slay" program.

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Since then, PMW has been following the PA's compliance, or more correctly, lack of compliance with its promise to end Pay-for-Slay, which has been used actively by the Israeli foreign ministry and US Ambassador Huckabee's office.

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In recent months, PMW has been able to expose the precise hour at which the PA paid terrorist prisoners their monthly terror-reward salaries, and both the US and Israeli governments have been citing PMW information the day PMW sends it to them.

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PMW report "Terrorists in Uniform"

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PMW updated its report titled "Terrorists in Uniform," which shows the PA Security Forces' active involvement in terror, and supplied it to The Washington Free Beacon, which published an advance article. The story had over a million Twitter views in 24 hours. Two weeks later, the US announced the freezing of PASF funding.

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When the report was finalized, PMW supplied The Wall Street Journal with the report in advance, and the paper published an entire editorial summarizing the report and criticizing the PA.

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PMW report to Marco Rubio leads to first-ever US sanctions on PA

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The US has legislated that if the PA works with the International Criminal Court to try and prosecute Israeli leaders, it will become ineligible for US funding. President Trump went further and imposed sanctions on the ICC and those who work with it. In response, PMW prepared a special 20-page report and sent it directly to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, detailing the PA's ongoing violations of US law through its engagement with the ICC. PMW's report documented extensive evidence, and the letter asked Rubio to have the US impose sanctions on the PA:

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Three weeks after PMW's report and letter, Rubio announced sanctions on the PA for precisely these violations – along with additional breaches of US law that PMW has repeatedly exposed:

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The US prohibited visas for all PA and PLO officials as well as their families, and for the first time ever, neither Mahmoud Abbas nor any PA officials were allowed into the US for the UN General Assembly meetings.

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Working with Israeli security since the war started

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Immediately following the October 7 attack, due to our broad knowledge of the Palestinian terror structures and activities, we were contacted by security officials. We continue to supply real-time information and life-saving info. PMW has continued its surveillance programs to provide real-time information to security services about terrorists and terrorism.

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US legislation

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PMW has written a report showing that the Palestinian Authority continues to justify terror and presents the murder of Israelis and Americans in Israel as legal under international law. We presented the report to a member of US Congress who has written legislation. We expect this will have a major impact on the PA's standing.

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Civil lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority for the murder of Taylor Force and Tzeela Gez

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PMW was approached by the National Jewish Advocacy Center in DC to help with the civil lawsuit in the US against the PA for the murders of Taylor Force and Tzeela Gez, who were American citizens in Israel. Tzeela was murdered in May 2025 while in labor and being driven by her husband to the hospital to give birth. PMW supplied critical evidence, which we are confident will lead to a conviction.

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PA TV complains that PMW is watching them around the clock

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An indication of how comprehensive PMW's work is and how much it concerns the PA is the PA's repeated attempts to delegitimize PMW. During one of his daily reports, official PA TV's "Israeli affairs expert" Fayez Abbas complained about PMW's thorough monitoring of PA TV: "An extremist right-wing organization Palestinian Media Watch prepared a report saying that the Red Cross fills out forms for the prisoners… This guy [Itamar Marcus] comes out against me day and night. There is no doubt that he is watching me now, recording me, and preparing reports. I heard him with another report, preparing reports that are all exaggeration, lies, and evasion… The budget of this institute, PMW is $20 million per year (sic, actually $1.3 million – ed.)."

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Lectures to MPs, media, and diplomats worldwide

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PMW has continued to make very important presentations around the world. Recently, a series of PMW lectures was given to four separate delegations of retired senior military officials from a wide range of Western countries. The material shocked them and left a veritable impact, and PMW was asked to supply the presentation to the participants.

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PA leadership support and defense of Oct. 7

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Much of the world thinks that only Hamas is problematic, but PMW is preparing a report showing that the PA actively supported the Oct. 7 atrocities and continues to justify them. PA leaders declared Oct. 7 as "heroic and epic," and Abbas' senior advisor called the massacre "legitimate resistance" five times in the same interview.

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PA abusing its own children by convincing them to be Martyrs

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PMW is preparing another report for parliaments showing the brainwashing of children to prefer death over life. We are working with members of Congress and parliaments to have the PA declared a "child abuser."

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PA Ministry of Education report

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PMW is finalizing a comprehensive report on the PA Ministry of Education showing that not just the schoolbooks but also the activities, messages, and even Oct. 7 celebrations define the school system as one that is engineered to promote terror.

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These are just some of the new reports PMW will disseminate in 2026.

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Itamar

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Official cleric in Qatari daily two months before Doha Forum:

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"Truth [Islam] does not reconcile with falsehood [Christianity and Judaism]"
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"The existence of each negates the other. Therefore, the struggle between faith [Islam] and disbelief [Christianity and Judaism] has been an existential struggle that does not tolerate compromises."
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Qatari belief:

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Islam is truth while Judaism and Christianity represent falsehood and ignorance with which there can be no coexistence and against which there is an existential struggle

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Muslim Brotherhood belief as illustrated in Jihad Is the Way:

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"The Islamic Ummah [nation]... can regain its power, be liberated, and assume its rightful position, which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men"
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Muslims should "know your status, so that you firmly believe that you are the masters of the world"
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"Jihad and preparation for Jihad are... for the purpose of... establishing an Islamic state, strengthening the religion, and spreading it around the world"
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Who speaks for Qatar? The Doha Forum or the official Qatari daily?

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Qatar's Doha Forum, held last week, positions itself as a beacon of "diplomacy, dialogue, and diversity"—a global platform for critical discussions on the world's most pressing issues. It claims to bring together policy leaders to address interconnected challenges, offering a space for exchange of ideas to drive action-oriented solutions. However, in opposition to this lofty rhetoric lies a radical Islamic belief expressed by an official cleric writing in the official Qatari daily.

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A column published two months ago in Al-Sharq, which is controlled by Qatar's ruling family, offers a picture of the Qatari Islam that is in glaring contradiction to the Forum's purported values in the very country that serves as a key diplomatic player vis-a-vis Gaza's future. The article, written by Dr. Ahmad Al-Mahmadi, a member of the Qatari Ministry of the Waqf, explicitly denies the possibility of Islamic-Jewish-Christian coexistence.

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The article first quotes a verse from the Quran, portraying Jews and Christians as a fundamental religious threat:

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"In Allah's book, there is a precise verse that must be considered and not left misunderstood. Allah, exalted be He, said: ‘The Jews will never be pleased with you, nor will the Christians, until you follow their religion' [2:120]."
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[Al-Sharq, Oct. 19, 2025]
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The article then asserts that "truth [Islam] does not reconcile with falsehood [Christianity and Judaism]" and that "the struggle between faith and disbelief has been an existential struggle that does not tolerate compromises." It goes further: "Islam refuses half-solutions and does not accept mixing truth with falsehood" and "Islam came to destroy ignorance, not to coexist with it."

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The Qatari belief is that Islam is truth while Judaism and Christianity represent falsehood and ignorance with which there can be no coexistence and against which there is an existential struggle. This is not merely a theological position but an ideological stance that explicitly rejects dialogue, peace, and coexistence between different faiths and cultures.

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This ideology is actually that of the Muslim Brotherhood and was laid out quite clearly by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1996 to 2002 in his book, Jihad Is the Way:

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"...The Islamic Ummah [nation]... can regain its power, be liberated, and assume its rightful position, which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men, as the teachers of humanity."
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Jews and others must be taught while Muslims should "know your status, so that you firmly believe that you are the masters of the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation."

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Regarding this existential struggle:

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"It should be known that Jihad and preparation for Jihad are not only for the purpose of fending-off assaults and attacks against Muslims by Allah's enemies, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state, strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world..."
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While Qatar has been working very hard to present itself as a moderate around the world, even recently signing a defense agreement with the United States, the country's adoption of such ideology, as expressed clearly in the Al-Sharq column, raises crucial questions: Who speaks for the true Qatar? How can the country simultaneously host a so-called "dialogue platform" like the Doha Forum for the outside world to see, while promoting Islamist supremacy and an existential conflict with Jews and Christians to its own people in its state-controlled media? Is the Doha Forum then merely a façade designed to disguise a more nefarious agenda and a tool for advancing Qatar's own geopolitical ambitions? How could a people that believes in an existential and eternal war with Christianity and Judaism be in a defense agreement with the US? And how has this country been so successful in misleading the international community about its religious beliefs?

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If this is the ideology that is going forth from Doha, then it is no different than that of the Palestinian Authority, which presents a welcoming pluralistic face when meeting foreign diplomats, but constantly spews religious hate by its religious leaders on its official channels.

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The following is a longer relevant excerpt from the article cited:

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"In Allah's book [the Quran], there is a precise verse that must be considered and not left misunderstood. Almighty Allah said: 'And never will the Jews and the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion' [Quran 2:120]. This is a verse that establishes an eternal rule on the relationship between truth and falsehood. It clarifies that the difference between them is not in branches or details, but rather in roots, principles, and goals. It decisively announces that the people of the book's (i.e., Jews and Christians) approval [of the Muslims], and even more so – the approval of all those who do not follow the straight path – is not a goal that will be achieved through dialogue, pleasant words, or the abandonment of some principles, but rather is conditioned on an inherently unacceptable condition: that the believer will abandon what has come to him through divine revelation and follow the whims of others.

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Truth does not reconcile with falsehood, and falsehood cannot tolerate the continued existence of truth, because the existence of each of the two negates the other. Therefore, the struggle between faith and heresy has been an existential struggle that does not tolerate compromises.

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[In this verse], Allah informs His honored Prophet Muhammad that his effort to guide people on the straight path does not mean he will gain their approval, as long as he adheres to what has been revealed to him. This is because the problem is not with him personally, but rather with the message he brings.

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Some people are liable to delude themselves that this hostility might pass with time or soften over the centuries. But Almighty Allah revealed the truth about it from the start, and clarified that it continues as long as Islam maintains its dawah (i.e., proselytizing), and as long as the groups of heresy continue in their deviation from the straight path.

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As for the reasons for this hostility, they are deep and intertwined. They combine faith with interest and history with geography. They can be summarized by four main issues:

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Because Islam is a religion that does not compromise and does not agree to a truce. Islam is a religion that declares exclusive belief in Allah, refuses half-solutions, and does not accept mixing truth with falsehood. It came to destroy Jahiliya (i.e., pre-Islamic 'Age of Ignorance'), not to coexist with it...

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Therefore, Islam is intolerable to its enemies unless it is stripped of its spirit and turns into formal rituals with no impact on reality – that is, when it gives up on itself.

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Because it is a project that opposes their projects. Islam is not an abstract spiritual idea, and not moral teachings detached from life, but rather a complete cultural project that outlines a path of worship, politics, economy, and society. It is a project that liberates man from enslavement to money and power and does justice based on belief in Allah alone. This makes it an adversary to any colonial or material project seeking to keep man a prisoner of desires and interests. Therefore, their hostility towards it stemmed from defending their cultural existence, not just religious belief.

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Because its land is the heart of the conflict. The first land of Islam is the cradle of the [divine] missions, the place of the start of divine revelation, and the center of monotheism in the world. It is the land that Allah chose to serve as the spreader of light, and therefore it has been the aspiration of all forces that wanted to control the [course of] history. Whoever controlled this land controlled the religious heart of humanity, and whoever lost it lost their spiritual symbolism. Therefore, the battle for Jerusalem and the blessed land remains the heart of the conflict between Islam and its enemies since the dawn of the [divine] mission until today.

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Because [the land of Islam] is the land of natural resources and key points. Since ancient times, the land of the Muslims has been a crossroads between continents, a source of natural resources, and a trade route. Today it is the energy hub of the world, the center of control over the shipping routes, and the economic gateways of the world. The struggle over it therefore is not only religious but rather a struggle between interests and strategies, in which the economic aspirations are intertwined with the faith-based leaning. Thus for the enemies of Islam, religion becomes cover for aspirations of control and hegemony."

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[Al-Sharq (Qatar) website, Oct. 19, 2025]

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