Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed Jordanian King Abdullah II in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Abbas and Abdullah held a closed-door meeting at the [ More … ]
Direct and indirect communications are underway between Fatah and Hamas leaders, Azzam Ahmad, a member of Fatah’s central committee said on Thursday. The move, according to Fatah’s Azzam Ahmad, is to enable the two movements [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank overnight Tuesday, targeting so-called Hamas operatives in predawn raids, including exiled Jerusalem lawmaker Ahmad Attun. During a raid into the central occupied West [ More … ]
An alleged car-ramming attack occured at the Ofra junction near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ofra in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Thursday morning, according to the Israeli army, killing an [ More … ]
Israeli soldiers shot a 15-year-old Palestinian Friday evening with a live bullet near the village of Nilin in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an [ More … ]
A Palestinian youth was killed and three others were critically injured Thursday evening after Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle near the al-Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah city in the central occupied [ More … ]
Israeli settlers have started to assemble a new settlement outpost on Palestinian land in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, a local activist said on Tuesday according to Ma’an. Activist Kathem Hajj Muhammad [ More … ]
Greenblatt is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, is scheduled to [ More … ]
The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of the settlers from the illegal Amona outpost in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah within 48 hours, an army spokesperson said. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported [ More … ]
Jailed Palestinian resistance icon Marwan Barghouti won most votes in Fatah movement’s main decision-making body, preliminary results showed Sunday. The vote was held Saturday to elect 18 members of the 21-seat committee on the sidelines [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 81, was admitted to the Istishari Arab Hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, reportedly to receive cardiovascular tests after suffering from heart pains, foreign media reported. [ More … ]
– Hamas describes court decision to exclude Gaza Strip from elections as ‘politicized’ and ‘absurd’ – Ramallah’s High Court of Justice on Monday issued a decision to hold Palestinian municipal polls in the Israeli-occupied West [ More … ]
Israeli forces carried out multiple predawn detention raids across the occupied Palestinian territory between Monday and Tuesday and detained at least 23 Palestinians — including two minors — according to Palestinian and Israeli security sources. [ More … ]
A senior Israeli official has met with a visiting former Saudi military general, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. The meeting marks a rare public engagement between countries that have no official [ More … ]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Wednesday paid his first official visit to Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority’s administrative capital, where he voiced Egypt’s support for an independent Palestinian state, according to Anadolu Agency. “This is [ More … ]
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