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PA-Hamas Unity: PA Already Doing Propaganda for Hamas

Smoke billows over the city of Khan Younis in Gaza during an IDF ground assault. Photo: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Even before the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have formalized a unification that both sides are calling for, but will certainly take time, the PA is already acting as a propaganda arm for Hamas, by demonizing Israel, defending Hamas’ actions as self-defense, and presenting Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists as a war of “genocide” against innocent civilians.

One prime example are the PA’s regular casualty announcements, which are precise down to the single individual when it comes to PA/Hamas claims of civilian casualties, but according to the PA’s official announcements, none of those killed by Israel were Hamas terrorists.

For example, on Monday, the PA released a detailed list with 34 categories including killed, wounded, sick, and missing. The details are striking: 32,295 martyred and missing, of which 25,295 were martyrs who reached the hospitals, 11,000 child martyrs, 7,500 female martyrs, 337 medical staff martyrs, 119 journalist martyrs, and in all 34 categories with precise details. However, the PA does not list even one Hamas terrorist or even a member of Hamas among the killed, injured, or captured. For the PA, they are all innocent martyrs.

This is consistent with the PA defense of Hamas since the start of the war, when on the very first day, Mahmoud Abbas already declared the attack as a justified attack of self-defense. Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash said it more precisely: the war was justified because of the seven decades of “occupation,” meaning since Israel was created.

The united front with Hamas that the PA has adopted during the war, will be helpful in establishing the PA-Hamas unity. Another call for unity came this week, by Fahmi Al-Za’arir — Secretary of the Palestinian National Council:

“Unity is the necessary transition to victory, and it is the law of victory for every revolution in the world. And any revolution in the world that has internal disputes during the stage of national liberation, its path is delayed… The Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad have not objected to being under the framework of the PLO since 1989 and not only now.

[Official PA TV, Jan. 2, 2024]

The following is the official PA government announcement of “the most important statistics of the genocidal war waged by the ‘Israeli’ occupation.” (Parenthetically, it should be noted that the PA announcement put the word “Israeli” in quotation marks, as part of its non-recognition of Israel. In spite of its public statements to the international community, non-recognition of Israel remains a fundamental component of PA ideology.)

“The Government Media Office is publishing an update on the most important statistics of the genocidal war waged by the “Israeli” occupation on the Gaza Strip – Monday, January 22, 2024

(108) days of the genocidal war.

(2,119) massacres committed by the Israeli army.

(32,295) martyred and missing.

(25,295) martyrs who reached the hospitals.

(11,000) child martyrs.

(7,500) female martyrs.

(337) martyrs from medical staff.

(45) martyr from civil defense.

(119) martyr of the journalists.

(7,000) are missing, 70% of them children and women.

(63,000) injured.

(11,000) wounded need to travel for “life-saving and dangerous” treatment.

(10,000) cancer patients face the risk of death.

(400,000) infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement.

(8,000) cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement.

(60,000) pregnant women are at risk due to the lack of health care.

(350,000) chronic patients are at risk due to the lack of medication.

(99) cases of arrest among health workers.

(10) arrests of well-known journalists.

)2( million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.

(99) schools and universities completely destroyed by the occupation.

(295) schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.

(161) mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.

(253) mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.

(3) churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.

(70,000) housing units completely destroyed by the occupation.

(290,000) housing units partially destroyed by the occupation and uninhabitable.

(65,000) tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza.

(30) Hospitals taken out of service by the occupation.

(53) health centers that the occupation took out of service.

(150) health institutions were partially targeted by the occupation.

(122) An ambulance destroyed by the occupation army.

(200) archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.

Government Media Office – Monday, January 22, 2024″

The author is the founder and executive director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.

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Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Block Trump Deportations of Anti-Israel Protesters

Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights.

The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeks a nationwide temporary restraining order to block enforcement of two executive orders signed by US President Donald Trump in the first month of his term.

The lawsuit comes after the detention of a Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent US resident of Palestinian descent, whose arrest sparked protests this month.

Justice Department lawyers have argued that the US government is seeking Khalil’s removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” Rubio on Friday said the United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days.

Trump vowed to deport activists who took part in protests on US college campuses against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian terrorists.

The ADC lawsuit was filed on behalf of two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who say their activism and support of the Palestinian people “has put them at serious risk of political persecution.”

“This lawsuit is a necessary step to preserve our most fundamental constitutional protections. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression to all persons within the United States, without exception,” said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the ADC.

Chris Godshall-Bennett, the group’s legal director, said the litigation seeks immediate and long-term relief “to protect international students from any unconstitutional overreach that stifles free expression and deters them from fully engaging in academic and public discourse.”

The lawsuit centers on three Cornell University plaintiffs: a British-Gambian national and PhD student with a student visa; a US citizen PhD student working on plant science; and a US citizen novelist, poet, and professor in the Department of Literatures in English.

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Netanyahu Informs Shin Bet Chief to Vote on His Dismissal Next Week

Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo: Screenshot

i24 NewsPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security agency, that he will bring a vote before his government to dismiss him next week.

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Houthis Claim to Attack US Aircraft Carrier, Retaliating for Strikes

Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 2, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

i24 NewsThe Houthis claimed on Sunday that they targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other vessels in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the US-led attacks against the Houthis on Saturday comprised of more than 47 airstrikes on seven governorates, with the death toll expected to rise.

“The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing the Houthis “will continue to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of ​​operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.”

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