Palestinian Media Watch

Palestinian Authority reiterates support for China’s 'One China' policy amid Taiwan tensions

Palestinian Media Watch said PA statements carried by official outlets in late December and early January backed Beijing’s stance on Taiwan, days after China held high-profile military drills.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023.
 Palestinian Authority chair Mahmoud Abbas against backdrop of October 7 destruction and Palestinian flag. (illustration)

PMW warns UN: Palestinian statehood without PA reform would empower more terrorism

NASSER ABU BAKR, chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, acknowledges that journalists in Gaza know that deviating from Hamas’s version of events places their freedom and even their lives in danger, says the writer.

Survival first, truth second: Why Gazan journalists are unreliable, and the PA benefits - opinion

 A guard is seen at an observation tower along a wall of Gilboa Prison, from where six Palestinian prisoners escaped, on September 6.

PA recognizes 899 terrorists captured in Gaza as POWs, commits to pay pensions, PMW report shows


Fatah links popular parkour athlete to terror promotion publicity campaign

The signature of professional freerunner Lynn Jung appeared on six mocked-up banknotes alongside images of Palestinian leaders and terrorists.

FATAH GUNMEN hold rifles during a demonstration in the West Bank.

PA determined to remit terror salary payments in defiance of Israeli law

The PA has declared its intention to continue paying terrorists' salaries through banks in the region, leaving the institutions vulnerable to prosecution.

Money seized by the police and Shin Bet from a terrorist's family in east Jerusalem

Calls made for ICC's Bensouda to address allegations of collusion with PA

The calls come in response to a recent Tweet by the ICC in which Bensouda defended herself against "misinformation and smear campaigns" without giving details.

Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) poses for pictures at The Hague, Netherlands October 26, 2016

Banks prove to be 'weak link' in terror funding, close terrorists accounts

The decision came ahead of legislation set to take force on Saturday, which makes the transfer of 'pay for slay' payments to terrorists a criminal act.

Gazans wait to draw money from an ATM of the Bank of Palesti

PA hiding terrorist salaries from donor countries in financial reports

In 2018 and 2019 the salary payments appeared in the PA's Budget Performance Reports, but this year they have disappeared, while spending on the PLO has shot up.

Palestinian terror attack in Hebron

Palestinian propaganda aimed at children depicts real-life terror attacks

The video, which has been shared on TikTok, an app popular with children, encourages terrorism by linking it with the State of Palestine.

Scene of stabbing attack in Petah Tikva

PA tells Palestinians: The Western Wall belongs only to Muslims

An official from Fatah called upon Palestinians to defend the site with their lives.

A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in the foreground and the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in the background June 24, 2019

Palestinian boys are raised to be ‘ammunition’

The tale starts with a little boy excitedly awaiting a gift that his mother promised him for finishing his food. However his mother shocks him: Instead of handing him a toy she hands him a rifle.

FATAH GUNMEN hold rifles during a demonstration in the West Bank.

Senior Palestinian claims Jesus was an Islamic martyr

A number of Palestinian leaders have this week claimed Jesus as one of their own, but one went further, naming him as the first Islamic Shahid.

Broken statues of the crucified Jesus Christ hang on the wall in the workshop of sculptor Nikolaus Duerlich of the ethnic minority of Sorbs, in Raeckelwitz, Germany, April 5, 2019.

Palestinian Authority depicts Santa as a victim, a fighter and Trump

For years during the Christmas season, the Palestinian Authority has used images of Santa Claus to further its agenda.

A Palestinian Authority cartoon in which Donald Trump is in a Santa Claus suit giving the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Israel