Top PA official Rajoub calls for unity with Hamas “to besiege” Israel “and those who stand behind it” Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub:

“We in the Fatah Movement support building bilateral rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas: … a rapprochement in the field of the struggle, so that our strategic option in the next stage will be comprehensive popular resistance (i.e., term that also refers to the use of terror); and an organizational rapprochement that pertains to the PLO and that all the national action factions, whether they are in the PLO or out of it, and in particular our brothers in Hamas and the [Islamic] Jihad Movement, will receive all the commitments provided by the PLO … What [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu and [US President] Trump have said must constitute for us an incentive to achieve our unity and re-examine many political policies. I hope our brothers in Hamas will also understand that they need to do some self-inspection in a way that will allow building a future for our people and besiege this occupation (i.e., Israel) and those who stand behind it.” [Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Feb. 15, 2025]

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." At the time Abbas said this, 14 Israelis had already been murdered.