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Title on screen: "The Saftawi family holds Hamas fully responsible for the murder of one of its members and the attack on their homes" Muhammad Saftawi: "I'm the brother of Hisham. We live in the central Gaza Strip.. Yesterday, Oct. 17, [2025], we were surprised to find that [Hamas] gunmen..."

The PA/Fatah/PLO have never been even close to ostracizing Hamas or other terrorist factions.

Columnist for the official PA daily Bassem Barhoum: "Hamas today must bear the responsibility placed upon it. Hamas has to stop being nihilistic, thinking only of itself and of the international organization the Muslim Brotherhood. It needs to think about the Palestinian people who has paid a heavy..."

Israel's assertion that it must conquer Gaza City or Hamas will reassert control over the entire Gaza Strip was once again reconfirmed by Hamas' murder of an anti-Hamas clan leader.

Khaled Al-Azi, PhD in International Relations: "Hamas has destroyed Gaza. It has destroyed the stones and annihilated the people, and therefore it doesn't care about anything that is happening in Gaza... The aid is not a self-evident matter. We saw how people threw [the aid] from the sea and how..."

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Varsen Aghabekian Shahin: "Hamas has no governmental role on the day after in the Gaza Strip (i.e., when Oct. 7 war is over). Hamas needs to hand over its weapons to the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces because we do not want these weapons under our rule..."

Lebanese political science researcher Muhammad Ali Muqalled: "Israel operates militarily assuming that Hamas is hiding in tunnels underground. Not only the tunnel protects them, what protects them is the presence of [Gazan] people above the tunnel. Therefore, [Israel] is attempting to move the..."

Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate Chairman Nasser Abu Bakr: "In this entire war there are indeed attacks against journalists. We are monitoring and recording daily attacks by the Hamas Movement, and the 'Arrow Battalion' or something. It is a known group that belongs to Hamas that attacks..."

Tulkarem District Governor and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdallah Kmeil: "If it [Hamas] were bringing about the achievement of the national goals and goals that Hamas has declared, we would support it, even if another 50,000 Palestinians would die as Martyrs. If the result of all this was..."

Despite Palestinian Authority lies about 10,000 years of history, Fatah official admits “Palestinian people” only started after Ottoman occupation

Official PA TV reporter in the Gaza Strip: "I want us to express condolences to ourselves, the family of journalists, and to all members of our people over the Martyrdom of Hassan Aslih (i.e., Hamas terrorist journalist who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre)... Our Martyr colleague was..."

Israel is libeled for starving Gaza while Hamas steals aid and makes people pay for their own deaths

Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: There are organized and armed gangs whose members are masked. They roam the streets and places where there are many sales stalls, stores, and warehouses, regardless of who owns these warehouses. Whether they belong to merchants or international...

Hussein Al-Sheikh is no moderate and shows how the PA is far from any sort of either substantive or structural “revitalization”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The first priority is stopping the Israeli war of annihilation to which the Gaza Strip is being subjected (i.e., Israel's response to Hamas' Oct. 7 war). This really needs to stop. Every day there are hundreds of fatalities [in Gaza]. Why? 'Because we [in Hamas] don't..."

Abbas’ advisor posts a clip: Hamas failed negotiations because it is not “familiar with the Jews and their tricks

Director of Palestinian Center for Strategic Studies Muhammad Al-Masri: "Preserving the sole legal representative [the PLO], which is the national identity that unifies [us], is what can now shield and act as a mantle or umbrella to protect Hamas. This is a way out for it... If Hamas wishes to..."

International relations expert Dr. Khaled Al-Azi: "Hamas must accept the Arabs' proposals and the proposals of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and be part of reorganizing the Palestinian body, because if we have been following [the situation] from the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation (i.e., Oct. 7"

Fatah could then unite with Hamas to “besiege” Israel through “comprehensive popular resistance”

Citizens in Gaza can’t afford the humanitarian that was intended for them

Tulkarem District GovernorAbdallah Kmeil: "Whether the side that carried out the criminal offensive on the Palestinian people (i.e., Israel) or Hamas claims victory, thePalestinian people paid the high and great price: The blood that was spilled like rivers in the Gaza Strip. It could have helped..."

PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Majdalani: "If we make a simple comparison, what was before Oct. 7, [2023] and after Oct. 7 (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war) – was this worth all this sacrifice, in a reckless adventure and gamble that the Hamas Movement made? … The destruction of 80% of the Gaza..."

Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: "From the moment the traders' trucks or the humanitarian aid trucks set out from the gate of the Kerem Shalom Crossing until they arrive at Saladin Road, they encounter several ambushes by [Palestinian] robbers. Some pay transit fees, large sums to..."

Girl: "Students of the Gaza Strip, teach us a bit of what you know, for we have forgotten. Teach us how to be men, for we have men who have turned into dough. Teach us how the stone becomes a precious diamond in the hands of the children. How the child's bicycle turns into a mine and the silk..."

Fatah Spokesman in the Gaza Strip Mundhir Al-Hayek: "This is a direct message to the Palestinian negotiator [Hamas]. He should fear Allah. All the conditions today are not worth this awful sacrifice that we are making day and night. Every minute in Gaza Strip brings death… I convey a direct message..."