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The Palestinian Authority Denied Oct. 7 and Lied About It
Partygoers at the Supernova Psy-Trance Festival who filmed the events that unfolded on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: Yes Studios
Last week, Israel marked one year since Hamas’ gruesome massacre and murder of approximately 1,200 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The number of Israelis murdered on Oct. 7 was 20 times greater than Americans murdered on September 11, 2001, proportional to the population.
On October 7, a reported 3,800 Hamas terrorists and 2,200 Gazan civilians entered Israel from the Gaza Strip accompanied by massive rocket fire, murdering children, youth, women, men, elderly, and the disabled.
Hamas beheaded babies and burned entire families alive in their homes. They raped women in front of their children and shot children in front of their parents. They executed the elderly. They took 251 young and old people hostage — dead or alive.
Since Hamas’ attack and launch of its terror war against Israel, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah’s reactions to the massacre, to Hamas and Hezbollah’s continued attacks on Israel, and to Israel’s response.
While praising Hamas’ carnage in southern Israel, the PA/Fatah also denied the massacre had even taken place, or else claimed that Israel had started the war and even committed the Oct. 7 atrocities itself.
In addition, the PA/Fatah added that Hamas’ attack served as an excuse for Israel to advance a pre-planned plot to empty not only the Gaza Strip, but also the West Bank of Palestinians.
Here are some of PMW’s reports on PA/Fatah denying and lying about Oct. 7 in the weeks after the massacre:
PA libel: Oct. 7 attack, beheading of babies, rape, and burning of women are “stories and tales spun from the imagination”
Outrageous PA libel: Israel itself committed the October 7 massacre to justify the attack on Gaza
Israel wanted Hamas attack to happen just as the US wanted Sept. 11, 2001 attacks — Fatah official libels Israel and the US
Top PLO official: Israel “killed their [own] civilians, committed all these crimes and burned the bodies”
PA denies Hamas murdered Israeli civilians, claims it fought “military squads”
PA TV libel: Israel lied about Hamas killing children
Top PA official lies, claims Hamas didn’t murder children
Abbas’ advisor lies, claims Hamas didn’t murder children
Ignoring evidence, Abbas’ advisor repeats libel that Israel — and the US — bombed Gazan hospital
Don’t confuse us with the facts — PA repeats lie about hospital bombing
Abbas’ advisor: Israel’s defense is “satanic Israeli plan supported by the US” to empty “Palestine” of Palestinians
Abbas’ advisor: Israel’s goal is “to uproot and erase the Palestinian people”
October 7 denial: Palestinian Authority lies led to worldwide phenomenon
As more and more evidence has surfaced of the atrocities on Oct. 7, the outright denials of the massacre have become fewer.
Some PA officials have instead shifted to criticizing Hamas for not consulting with the PA in advance:
Abbas’ advisor criticizes Hamas for not “consulting and briefing” the PLO about October 7 massacre insert video to play
Others have called for more of the same and even for the genocide of Jews — kill them “one by one.” You can see a video of that here.
Meanwhile, others justify the massacre and all previous terror as “self-defense”:
PA Shari’ah Judge justifies Oct. 7 massacre and previous Palestinian terror waves as defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque insert video to play
Even though there has been a diversity of comments and reactions to the Oct. 7 horrors, it would be difficult to find a Palestinian who openly speaks against what Hamas did to Israelis that day. On the contrary, Palestinian Media Watch exposed a poll showing that 98% of Palestinians say that the events of Oct. 7 “made them proud.”
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
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UN Security Council Meets on Iran as Russia, China Push for a Ceasefire
Members of the Security Council cast a vote during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at UN headquarters in New York, US, Feb. 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
The U.N. Security Council met on Sunday to discuss US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites as Russia, China and Pakistan proposed the 15-member body adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Middle East.
It was not immediately clear when it could be put to a vote. The three countries circulated the draft text, said diplomats, and asked members to share their comments by Monday evening. A resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China to pass.
The US is likely to oppose the draft resolution, seen by Reuters, which also condemns attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites and facilities. The text does not name the United States or Israel.
“The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Sunday. “We now risk descending into a rathole of retaliation after retaliation.”
“We must act – immediately and decisively – to halt the fighting and return to serious, sustained negotiations on the Iran nuclear program,” Guterres said.
The world awaited Iran’s response on Sunday after President Donald Trump said the US had “obliterated” Tehran’s key nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that while craters were visible at Iran’s enrichment site buried into a mountain at Fordow, “no one – including the IAEA – is in a position to assess the underground damage.”
Grossi said entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit at Iran’s sprawling Isfahan nuclear complex, while the fuel enrichment plant at Natanz has been struck again.
“Iran has informed the IAEA there has been no increase in off-site radiation levels at all three sites,” said Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran requested the U.N. Security Council meeting, calling on the 15-member body “to address this blatant and unlawful act of aggression, to condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Israel‘s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement on Sunday that the U.S. and Israel “do not deserve any condemnation, but rather an expression of appreciation and gratitude for making the world a safer place.”
Danon told reporters before the council meeting that it was still early when it came to assessing the impact of the U.S. strikes. When asked if Israel was pursuing regime change in Iran, Danon said: “That’s for the Iranian people to decide, not for us.”
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Israel Rejects Critical EU Report Ahead of Ministers’ Meeting
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
Israel has rejected a European Union report saying it may be breaching human rights obligations in Gaza and the West Bank as a “moral and methodological failure,” according to a document seen by Reuters on Sunday.
The note, sent to EU officials ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting on Monday, said the report by the bloc’s diplomatic service failed to consider Israel’s challenges and was based on inaccurate information.
“The Foreign Ministry of the State of Israel rejects the document … and finds it to be a complete moral and methodological failure,” the note said, adding that it should be dismissed entirely.
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Pope Leo Urges International Diplomacy to Prevent ‘Irreparable Abyss’
FILE PHOTO: Pope Leo XIV holds a Jubilee audience on the occasion of the Jubilee of Sport, at St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican June 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
Pope Leo on Sunday said the international community must strive to avoid war that risks opening an “irreparable abyss,” and that diplomacy should take the place of conflict.
US forces struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites overnight, joining an Israeli assault in a major new escalation of conflict in the Middle East as Tehran vowed to defend itself.
“Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility: to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable abyss,” Pope Leo said during his weekly prayer with pilgrims.
“No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, the stolen future. Let diplomacy silence the weapons, let nations chart their future with peace efforts, not with violence and bloody conflicts,” he added.
“In this dramatic scenario, which includes Israel and Palestine, the daily suffering of the population, especially in Gaza and other territories, risks being forgotten, where the need for adequate humanitarian support is becoming increasingly urgent,” Pope Leo said.
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