TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has put himself on the receiving end of anger on Palestinian streets after telling Israel’s Channel 2 that he Western Wall “will remain under Israeli sovereignty. There’s no argument that this is a holy site for Jews.”
JERUSALEM – A television show broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV a day before PA President Mahmoud Abbas was set to meet President Donald Trump to discuss peace last week called for a return to the “days of the Intifada” and violence against Israels.
Palestinian officials have expressed their displeasure at the decision of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip to build the home of the Qatari ambassador on the landing strip used for the plane of the former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
TEL AVIV – Norway’s foreign minister on Friday slammed the Palestinian Authority for using donations from the country to build a women’s center in the West Bank named after one of the most notorious female terrorists responsible for the deaths of 38 Israelis.
The United Nations Middle East envoy warned the Security Council on Friday that a power struggle between the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements had worsened a humanitarian crisis in Gaza that now risked exploding into another conflict.
JERUSALEM – Ahead of President Donald Trump’s proposed meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas next week in Bethlehem, official PA TV broadcast a child reciting a poem encouraging Palestinians to go to “war” in order “to smash the oppression and destroy the Zionist’s soul.”
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas invited the mother of four jailed terrorists to a special meeting at his office to reassure her that her sons’ “just cause” and his desire to “ease their suffering” was high on his agenda.
A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday and was shot at the scene.
TEL AVIV – Amid the international soccer governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s annual congress, a tournament named after the terrorist responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis took place under the auspices of the Palestinian Football Association – the same group that is demanding that Israel’s FIFA membership be revoked.
More than 30 Israeli families who have lost relatives to terrorist attacks have signed a letter to FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, accusing the Palestine Football Association (PFA) and its president, Jibril Rajoub, with severe violations of its statutes, including incitement to terrorism.
TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of the central committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority president’s movement, has lashed out at Hamas in a television interview with al-Quds, saying that Fatah is Israel’s greatest enemy and not Hamas.
France’s presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron on Friday said he would not unilaterally recognize the state of Palestine if he is elected on Sunday.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outright lied to Donald Trump’s face at a joint appearance at the White House earlier this week in which the two addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, charged Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein during his regular segment on the national John Batchelor Show.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with President Donald Trump, his Fatah party released statements addressing donor countries with the outlandish claim that paying salaries to terrorists was actually helping the Palestinian Authority usher in peace to the region.
TEL AVIV – Standing alongside President Donald Trump at the White House today, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attempted to whitewash decades of official PA incitement to violence and anti-Israel indoctrination that continue unabated until today.
US President Donald Trump will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday for their first face-to-face talks, with the PA leader hoping the billionaire businessman’s unpredictable approach can inject life into long-stalled peace efforts.
JERUSALEM– The Palestinian Authority’s official television network broadcast a special edition of a TV show from the family home of a terrorist who murdered his Israeli employer 15 years ago, referring to him as a “hero” and a “source of pride for Palestine.”
JERUSALEM – “Water the soil with your blood,” was the message conveyed by a cartoon published last week in the official Palestinian Authority daily depicting a Palestinian prisoner watering a blooming plant with blood directly from his vein.
Fatah, the ruling party of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, on Wednesday bested its political rival Hamas in West Bank student university elections for the second time this month.
At least 86 Palestinian prisoners said Saturday they were ending their hunger strike, the Israel Prisons Service said. They joined some 100 other prisoners who ended their strike on Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed The New York Times for publishing an opinion piece written by jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti without noting he is serving multiple life terms for the murder of Israelis.
As over a thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons prepared to begin a mass hunger strike called by an imprisoned senior Fatah terror chief, Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that the strike is really about internal Palestinian politics and not an alleged dispute over prison conditions.
Palestinian official said Sunday that the much-touted first meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Donald Trump will take place on May 3 in the White House.
TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official slammed the White House Saturday for being full of “settlers,” Hebrew-language media reported. “We used to say there were settlers in the Israeli coalition borne of the far right that detests Palestinians, Arabs
JERUSALEM – The real meaning of “The Promised Land” is the place where Allah will fulfill his promise to exterminate all the Jews, a Palestinian woman said on Fatah TV.
Two Palestinian men convicted in Israel of murdering a US citizen who was hiking near an Israeli archaeological site could face charges in the United States if they are ever released from an Israeli prison.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has decided to freeze salary payments to tens of thousands of its employees in Gaza.
The Palestinian Fatah movement’s student body issued a call for violence on April 17, when the Palestinian Authority marks its annual “Prisoner’s Day.”
An assailant stabbed two young men and a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday afternoon, wounding them, before being shot and killed by security forces, police said.
TEL AVIV – The families of American victims of Palestinian terrorism are calling on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to deny entry to senior Palestinian official and former terrorist, Jibril Rajoub.
JERUSALEM – The student movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party promotes the notion that the “blood of martyrs” will eventually lead to the creation of Palestine, erasing Israel in the process.
Egyptian and Palestinian leaders are holding talks in Cairo in what Egyptian media reports are branding a “reconciliation” meeting.
TEL AVIV – In a first, the U.S. has issued an extradition request for a Jordanian woman charged with the killing of Americans in a Jerusalem bombing during the Second Intifada.
The army confirmed that a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel Wednesday night. There was no damage or injuries and no siren sounded as the rocket landed in open territory in the Negev, the IDF spokesperson’s unit said.
Senior Palestinian officials say Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will travel to the US to meet with President Donald Trump next month, during which the American leader will propose that the Palestinians restart peace negotiations with Israel in exchange for a freeze on Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and a promise not to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Twenty-four Palestinian Authority schools funded by the UK and EU are in flagrant violation of demands that foreign aid be cut if the schools do not put an end to the promotion of violence against Israelis.
During meetings this week with terrorists released from Israeli prisons, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to “make every effort to end the suffering of our heroic brothers and release them from the occupation’s prisons so they can take part in building the homeland for which they sacrificed,” the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on Wednesday.
One day after Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with US Vice President Mike Pence, the Arab League on Wednesday voted unanimously in Cairo for a resolution blocking the proposed relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority named a youth camp starting this week after a female terrorist responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in Israel’s history which claimed the lives of 38 civilians including 13 children.
The Palestinian Authority announced Tuesday that municipal elections scheduled for May 13 will be held only in the West Bank and not in Gaza.
