Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a press conference on Tuesday, where the leaders stated that China would continue supporting the Palestinian people and announced the signing of several cooperation [ More … ]
Several Hamas-affiliated Palestinian lawmakers said on Sunday that the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) stopped payment of the salaries of 37 Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members living in the occupied West Bank. PLC member Ayman [ More … ]
United Nations humanitarian organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory appealed on Monday for funding to address the “spiraling” situation in the besieged Gaza Strip. According to a statement published by the UN Office for the [ More … ]
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper says the plan of installing Dahlan in Gaza aims to ‘neutralize’ the role of Qatar and Turkey in Gaza. An editorial board member of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper has said Israel, Egypt and [ More … ]
Israeli authorities implemented a third round of electricity supply cuts to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — honoring a request from the Palestinian Authority (PA) that announced last month it would drastically reduce its payments [ More … ]
After Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip at the request at the Palestinian Authority (PA), UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper characterized the ever-worsening crisis in [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused fellow Fatah members of using a recent prisoner hunger strike to ‘conspire against him’ over the recent hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Fatah [ More … ]
Hundreds of the prisoners have been refusing food since April 17 over conditions for about 6,500 Palestinian inmates. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United States to help end a weeks-long hunger strike by [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday morning. Palestinian presidential guard spokesman Ghassan Nimr told local media [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority ready to exchange three times as much territory as previously, official tells Middle East Eye ahead of Trump visit to West Bank Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be presenting a plan that [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi Sunday for a four-day official visit to India upon an invitation from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, according to official Palestinian news agency Wafa. The [ More … ]
A Palestinian delegation left the occupied West Bank on Sunday for the United States in order to prepare for a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Donald Trump scheduled for May 3. [ More … ]
Mahmoud Abbas says he will take ‘unprecedented steps’ to end the political division between his West Bank based autonomy government and the Hamas run Gaza Strip. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that he would take [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a special “Hope for Peace” prize at the Steiger Award ceremony in Germany on Saturday. The Steiger Award said on its website that it had chosen to hand the prize [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas left Cairo on Monday after a two-day visit to meet his Egyptian counterpart, Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, and other officials. The meeting was attended by the Egyptian and Palestinian heads of [ More … ]
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