“Oct. 7 was a plan that existed” in Israel, they used it “to destroy the Gaza Strip”

Head of the international relations and communications unit of the PA-controlled Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Younes Arar: "They have unleashed the reins for the colonialist terrorist [settler] gangs to act as they wish under the full protection of the occupation (i.e., Israeli) army, legal and political protection, funding, and they use the excuse… which is Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas' terror war on Israel). [They use] the excuse of preventing another Oct. 7 from happening in the West Bank... The Oct. 7 that they used to destroy the Gaza Strip - and completely destroy the Gaza Strip - is a plan that existed in the occupation state, and they talked about it for a long time."

[Official PA TV, Panorama, Dec. 9, 2025]