Fatah official and regular columnist for the official PA daily Muwaffaq Matar: “We will not reconcile with those (i.e., Hamas) who give excuses to slaughter our people. We cannot under any circumstances reconcile with those who make excuses to slaughter our people. Our people’s blood and the life of every Palestinian child are a million times more important than the Hamas leadership, and we will never let them enter the PLO at the expense of the blood of our sons and the blood of our people.”
[Al-Arabiya TV (Saudi Arabia), YouTube channel, July 13, 2024]