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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Israel behaves like any state or side with colonialist ambitions and conflicts. It is attempting to change the existing situation in the territory under occupation. It is also trying to create and..."

Gazan poet Adel Al-Ramadi: "Jerusalem is a trust entrusted in my hands, O nation of the Arabs… In the journey of history [the Jews] turned blood into water Their names are robbery, even the names [they stole] They amended the Torah to divide the fathers… How they persecuted Jesus They crucified..."

Text on screen: "The occupation (i.e., Israel) connects the Jewish Quarter [of Jerusalem's Old City] to the Al-Buraq Wall Plaza (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) via a Judaizing tunnel" Chairman of the Committee to Defend the Lands of Silwan Fakhri Abu Diab: "The so-called electric..."

Ma'arouf Al-Rifai, media advisor to the Jerusalem District: "The area adjacent to the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) in particular, is part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and an Islamic waqf (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment in..."

When Jews and Christians pray at the Western Wall or on the Temple Mount, the PA condemns what they call “Talmudic ceremonies”

Official PA narrator and text on screen: "The Jews call it the Wailing Wall, because their prayers next to it are conducted in the form of crying and lamentation… It served the Jews as a place of worship only after the cursed Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917. The Palestinians noticed the..."

Official PA TV narrator: "Jerusalem, the occupied capital… For the colonialists, it was a target they wanted to achieve. And for this purpose, they created false stories justifying their occupations throughout the generations. This is a Canaanite city from time immemorial, with a deep and ancient..."

Director-General of the PA Ministry of Culture and Antiquities in the Nablus District Dirgham Al-Fares: "Enough of harming our sites and our history, and enough of the unjust actions to Judaize these religious and historical sites through false claims. Those who spread these false claims are..."

Commentator Faisal Tahboub: "The extremist Israelis or this [Israeli] government, together with the religious Jews and settlers, are attempting to prove that they have a status in the Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount). The final goal is destroying the Noble Sanctuary and actually building..."

Official PA TV "Israeli affairs expert" Rasem Obeidat: "[The Jerusalem Day celebrations aim to] disseminate the Torah-based and Talmudic Jewish narrative regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque (i.e., the Temple Mount), [including] denying the identity of Jerusalem's Arab residents by severing their..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is an inseparable part of our religious faith, our national identity, and our presence that has lasted thousands of years on our historical homeland Palestine, is being subjected to the most abhorrent plot by the occupation (i.e.,..."

Official PA TV narrator: "Immediately after East Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Old City [of Jerusalem] fell into the hands of the occupation (i.e., Israel), the Israeli excavations began… Excavations continued in all the areas adjacent to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, above and below ground,..."