Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
Months of increasing repression and arrests leave even those supporting the Palestinian Authority wondering if it is on the verge of collapse Middle East Eye has reported that while a Palestinian Authority insider last weekend [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asked his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to support the internal Palestinian reconciliation efforts and the plans for Palestinian elections. The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that Abbas spoke [ More … ]
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that America is considering replacing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan. Friedman made the comments yesterday in an interview with ‘Israel Today’ newspaper, which [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that Palestine will reconsider the deals and understandings reached with both Israel and the US, should Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank. “We will hold the US [ More … ]
Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, revealed that his movement has rejected holding talks with the US due to its bias towards the Israeli occupation, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday. Mansour told reporters [ More … ]
Journalists and human rights defenders say Lebanese popular uprising has prompted the Palestinian Authority to stifle free speech The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian news websites and social media pages, following a request by [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed Wednesday the Palestinian position on the cessation of all agreements signed with Israeli if the later decides to impose sovereignty on any part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Abbas said [ More … ]
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday directly accused Hamas of carrying out a bomb attack against Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza last week and threatened fresh sanctions against the Gaza, prompting Hamas to call for [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince and Egyptian President reportedly told PA chairman he has no choice but to accept Trump’s peace plan. Leaders from two important Arab nations have advised Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to [ More … ]
BY: Dr. Said Elhaj* Some politicians resort to addressing the world public opinion at significant political or historical stations through publishing articles in worldwide newspapers. This is exactly what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas did on [ More … ]
Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday. Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian [ More … ]
With expectations surrounding US peace efforts low among Palestinian leadership, Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, has arrived in the region, where he and other members of a US delegation met [ More … ]
BY: Grant Rumley & Ghaith al-Omari* Earlier this summer, it seemed like war in the Gaza Strip was inevitable. Israel had accepted Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ request to cut off electricity for the approximately two million Gazans who live under [ More … ]
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