TEL AVIV — Talk of any U.S.-led initiative to revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is a “delusion,” charged Palestinian official Mahmoud Aloul, a Fatah deputy to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian officials are expected to meet with Turkish representatives in Turkey next week in talks to advance Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah and the Hamas terrorist organization, the secretary of Fatah’s Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, told Palestinian media.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set aside weeks of widespread and vocal pessimism over US peace efforts, saying that a deal with Israel is not impossible during a meeting with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a visit to the region with the aim of jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
The Palestinian Authority reportedly plans to give White House envoy Jared Kushner an ultimatum when he visits Ramallah on Thursday: deliver Israeli concessions in 45 days, or we blow up the peace process and go to the UN.
White House adviser Jared Kushner has touched down in Cairo, the latest stop on his Mideast trip to discuss the possibility of resuming the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
TEL AVIV — The Fatah movement, under the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, released a statement Monday marking 48 years since the Al Aqsa Mosque was set ablaze by a mentally ill Australian citizen, claiming that Israeli is an “occupying” country that has no sovereignty over the Al Aqsa Mosque.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of the arrival of a senior U.S. delegation to the region to jump start the peace process, Palestinian leadership has reiterated that “there will be no peace” without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
An Israeli general sharply criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for sending medical aid to distant Venezuela while cutting down on help to the beleaguered Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday declared the Trump administration to be in “chaos” and that the White House’s plans for peace were incomprehensible.
According to a report in Vanity Fair, while he served as White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon heavily lobbied President Trump to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, but the move was blocked by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday threatened to gradually cut all funding to the Gaza Strip until Hamas agreed to reconcile with Fatah.
TEL AVIV — Gaza Strip will soon begin receiving $15 million every month in aid from the United Arab Emirates for reconstruction, according to Samir Masharawi, a former Fatah official and current associate of Mohammed Dahlan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ main political rival from within Fatah.
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has clamped down on social media and news websites, the main outlets for debate and dissent in the West Bank, with a vaguely worded decree that critics say allows his government to jail anyone on charges of harming “national unity” or the “social fabric.”
JERUSALEM – Following the Temple Mount crisis which Palestinian leadership has warned is the first of many “rounds of battle,” the Palestinian Authority’s Presidential Guard posted a message urging people to “water freedom with the blood of Palestine’s sons,” Israeli monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch reported.
The Palestinian Authority has dramatically reduced financial support for Gazans seeking medical care outside the blockaded Gaza Strip, WHO figures showed Wednesday, as PA president Mahmoud Abbas seeks to squeeze the Hamas-run enclave.
On August 6, Arab Israeli terrorists lit an army jeep on fire in a vain attempt to intimidate Jews living in the eastern part of Jerusalem.
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Hamas has agreed to a reconciliation deal with the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party brokered by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Arab media reported on Sunday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Hebrew-language music video urging Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims to “tear” apart and “kill” Israeli Jews has begun circulating over Palestinian social media in the wake of the July 14 shooting death of two Israeli Druze policeman after Israeli Arab terrorists smuggled guns onto the Temple Mount complex and opened fire.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week hosted a Hamas delegation for a meeting to discuss Palestinian reconciliation.
China’s U.N. ambassador has been advocating for the international community to support a four-point proposal released by President Xi Jinping to guide Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill Thursday to cut US funding to the Palestinian Authority if it does not stop paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party is running a children’s summer camp named after the terrorist behind the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
TEL AVIV – Jared Kushner let slip in a private, off-the-record conversation with congressional interns on Monday that he was not sure the Trump administration was able to add anything “unique” towards solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – Jordan’s foreign minister on Tuesday slammed Israel for the record-breaking 1,300 Jewish “extremists” who “stormed” the Temple Mount for the Tisha B’Av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday held a rare meeting in Ramallah with a delegation from rival Hamas over possible reconciliation between the battling Palestinian factions.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli defense establishment is concerned with the deteriorating health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following another spate in hospital last week, an analysis in the Haaretz daily said.
TEL AVIV – More than a thousand Jews on Tuesday visited the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem for the Tisha B’av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s new budget now uses half of all its foreign aid for its Pay-for-Slay program rewarding terrorists and their families for carrying out attacks against Israelis.
TEL AVIV – Arab media from all over the world celebrated the removal of security measures at the Temple Mount and the subsequent return of Muslim pilgrims to the holy site by publishing cartoons poking fun at Israel for capitulating and saying the Jewish state acted out of fear.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was discharged from hospital on Saturday evening after undergoing “routine medical checks in hospital in Ramallah,” reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
TEL AVIV – A overwhelming majority of Israelis (77%) believe that the government’s decision to remove metal detectors at the Temple Mount following rioting by Muslims signified capitulation on Israel’s part, according to a poll commissioned by Israel’s Channel 2.
TEL AVIV – Violent clashes with Israeli security forces erupted as thousands of Palestinian Muslims returned on Thursday to the Temple Mount for afternoon prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque in celebration of Israel’s removal of all security measures installed at the site since a terror attack there saw two Israeli-Druze policemen murdered by three Arab gunmen two weeks ago.
Contents: Israel braces for new ‘day of rage’ at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday; Palestinian leaders incite protests and violence in Jerusalem and West Bank
Jordan’s King Abdullah II urged Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to work to calm spiraling tensions Wednesday, hours after Palestinian factions, backed by Abbas, called for violent demonstrations Friday over the Temple Mount.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has called for Muslims to “intensify the popular struggle” over the Temple Mount, despite the removal of metal detectors and security cameras from the holy site after a week of protests over the increased security measures.
TEMPLE Mt, JERUSALEM – Cries of “The nation of Israel lives” ring up from Jewish pilgrims about to ascend the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site and the location of the first and second temple, as police check for weapons and other dangerous objects such as Star of David pendants.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon presented a gruesome photo from the scene of last Friday’s Palestinian terror attack in Halamish, where three members of an Israeli family were killed, at the UN Security Council on Monday.
WASHINGTON — After dashing to Israel to defuse tensions surrounding the Temple Mount, a top White House envoy jetted to Amman on Monday evening for “additional discussions” regarding an escalating diplomatic imbroglio.
