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Abbas’ advisor: Fatah has borne arms since 1965; Hamas only since 1990

Lebanese journalist Mohamad Barakat: "It is self-evident that a person has no right to sacrifice another person. You have no right to sacrifice your neighbor, no right to sacrifice your son, and no right to sacrifice your people. Are you sacrificing yourself? No problem. Do you want to die as a..."

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Since when did Hamas bear arms to say that its weapons are related to the existence of the occupation (i.e., Israel)? The occupation is 77 years old (i.e., since the establishment of modern Israel), or at least since 1967, and Hamas did not bear arms until 1990. On the..."

Official PA daily confirms what PMW has been reporting throughout the war

Tulkarem District Governor Abdallah Kmeil: "Many of the Gaza Strip residents are against [Hamas]. They are not against them after 'the [Al-Aqsa] Flood' (Hamas' name for Oct. 7 war). They were against them even before 'the Flood.' Don't forget that 350,000 left the Gaza Strip [before Oct. 7, 2023]..."

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..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas, with these rebellious and ISIS-like ideas and these illegal acts, is providing the occupation (i.e., Israel) with what it wanted to achieve. The occupation wants the Palestinian people divided,..."

Tulkarem District Governor Abdallah Kmeil: "I doubt everything Hamas says. It is impossible that within 48 hours they would capture a person, interrogate him, try him, and shoot him in this truly ISIS-like and disgusting manner, which distorts the image of the Palestinians after the overwhelming..."

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "I call on Egypt and [Egyptian] President [Abdel Fattah] El-Sisi personally to hold an urgent meeting between Fatah and Hamas to bridge the political gaps, organizational gaps, and gaps related to the struggle [against Israel], in a manner consistent..."

Tulkarem District Governor Abdallah Kmeil: "To lead an unarmed people into a war in which you [Hamas] are underground as a fighter, while the unarmed people with its children, women, and unarmed men are above ground, is the greatest disaster, because the one paying the price is the people… Leaders..."

Official columnist “We can look for ways to bring Hamas back to operation”

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

Roadmap outlines 10 concrete reforms to dismantle PA terror-supporting systems, ensuring accountability, transparency, and rejection of incitement.

Fatah official Bassem Al-Tamimi: The Hamas movement, in its current circumstances, is defined by many on the global level as a terrorist movement. This makes it difficult for Hamas to be able to secure rights for our people and to stop what is happening [the war] independently. Therefore, I think...

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "One of the intelligence agency heads asked me after the Martyrdom of [Hamas Political Bureau Chairman] Ismail Haniyeh who I think might replace him. I told him: I want someone who, first of all, will be able to maintain the unity of Hamas, and..."

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..."

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "I say to our brothers in Hamas, we in Fatah tell you: Let us reach an agreement regarding the vision that will reap the fruits of the sacrifice that the Palestinian people has made from 1948 until today. The Palestinian struggle did not start..."

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..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "There are [Gazan] civilians who are being shot and killed by Hamas every day. Hamas is killing them every day. Anyone who attempts to say ‘no' is considered either a traitor or a rebel by Hamas, and..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "[Hamas] have exploited themselves and the resources of their people, and they have hijacked the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years… They don't attach importance to the suffering of the Palestinian..."

PA Chairman Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "If Hamas wants to be part of the Palestinian national fabric - and it is part of it, and we cannot take that away from it. But if it wants to be a partner in the Palestinian decision-making, it must commit to..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas speaks one language and acts in another language in practice through its connection first and foremost with the Muslim Brotherhood and its adherence to the Muslim Brotherhood's plan, which wants..."

Former PA Prime Minister and Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Shtayyeh: "In the Gaza Strip we had 19,000 [PA] Security [Forces] personnel who received salaries on Oct. 7, in Gaza we had 18,204 [PA] public employees… All of them received salaries from the PA. Until Oct. 7… Although Hamas..."