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Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday of increasing pressure on Hamas in the Gaza Strip to “drag it to war with Israel.” Lieberman, who spoke at the Herzliya Conference, warned that “the situation in Gaza can’t last forever.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday warmly greeted US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, in Jerusalem.

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law, along with Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, met on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the president’s residence in Ramallah.

JERUSALEM – Ahead of the arrival of senior Middle East advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt in the region to advance a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority named yet another square after the terrorist mastermind behind the murder of 22 children.

TEL AVIV – Senior White House advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East this week in order to advance a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, according to a White House official.

Contents: Three Palestinians shot dead after killing female Israeli officer; Hamas, ISIS argue over who gets credit for killing female Israeli officer

TEL AVIV — Egypt and Hamas have agreed that Hamas will continue managing the Gaza Strip’s internal affairs while former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, a leading political opponent of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will help run Gaza’s foreign affairs, according to an Islamic Jihad official who gave an interview to a Lebanese television station.

Palestinian factions and terrorist groups hailed an attack carried out by three terrorists that killed a female Israeli police officer in Jerusalem on Friday and wounded others nearby.

Fatah, the political faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned Israel for killing three Palestinians who killed Israeli police officer Hadas Malka and injured four others in a stabbing and shooting terror attack in Jerusalem on Friday.

The Palestinian government in the West Bank has blocked 11 news websites affiliated with Hamas and other political rivals critical of President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Reuters news agency has reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) intends to continue paying stipends to families of terrorists, despite assurances that PA President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly made to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

TEL AVIV – Both Israel and the Palestinians have rejected claims made by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the Palestinian leadership has “changed its policy” and would cease its payouts of terrorist salaries in the near future.

JERUSALEM– The Palestinian Authority’s official television network broadcast a special edition of a TV show from the home of an imprisoned terrorist responsible for least five attacks on Israeli civilians, killing 14 including a baby, and praised him for bringing “pride and honor” to the Palestinian people.

The Egyptian government has been pressuring the leaders of Hamas to accept the official involvement of Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan in the Gaza Strip, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told senators on Tuesday that the Palestinian leadership had changed its policy and intends to stop paying the families of terrorists jailed for attacking or killing Israelis.

As it simultaneously confronts a domestic crisis in Gaza and an international one over Qatar, Hamas is living in “a perilous time,” a leading expert on the Palestinian Islamist terrorist organization told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Following the proposal of a new bill that would see a cut in funds to the Palestinian Authority equal to the salaries paid out to convicted terrorists, the chairman of the Palestinian Prisoners Club on Sunday vowed that the Palestinians will continue the payments regardless.

Contents: Qatar-Arab crisis is unlikely to be resolved soon; Differences between Qatar and Saudi Arabia run deep and will worsen

TEL AVIV – The recent appointment of a jailed terrorist to a senior position in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party is proof that salaries to terrorists and their families will not end anytime soon, a website for the party said.

Israel has reportedly decided to heed a Palestinian Authority request to cut electricity supply to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after the PA announced it would not continue to pay the bill as it stepped up pressure on its main rival.

A delegation of five Palestinian officials is expected to meet with US President Donald Trump’s administration in Washington, D.C. later this or next month to discuss reviving the peace process, a senior Fatah official said on Sunday.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will temporarily shelve his long-standing demand for Israel to freeze West Bank settlement construction in order to revive peace talks under the Trump administration, a top adviser said.

Planning is in full swing ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic visit to Israel next month, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — A State Department official said Tuesday that Israelis and Palestinians will “be forced to compromise” in order to achieve US President Donald Trump’s goal of brokering peace between the two sides.

Following insistent Palestinian denials that US President Donald Trump shouted at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about Palestinian incitement against Israel during their meeting last week, Abbas has conceded — in Arabic — that the story is true, according to a report by the London-based Qatari news site al-Araby al-Jadid.

There may be concerns that moving the embassy in Israel would put other embassies at greater risk of terrorism.

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 – The Palestinian Authority has paid out NIS 4 billion ($1.12 billion) over the past four years towards salaries for terrorists and their families, a former intelligence chief said on Monday.

Israel Law Center founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner told Breitbart News Daily in an exclusive Memorial Day radio special on SiriusXM 125 The Patriot Channel that it’s past time for the United States to cut funding to Palestinian terrorists and their families.

A senior Palestinian official on Monday denied a report about a confrontation between US President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the American leader’s visit to Bethlehem last week.

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.

US Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt returned to Israel on Thursday and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas to follow up on conversations they each had with President Donald Trump during his visit.

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.

TEL AVIV – As President Donald Trump embarked on the next stop of his overseas trip, Jewish American organizations from the right and left hailed his visit to Israel as a resounding success.

JERUSALEM – Peace will not happen when violence is funded and even rewarded, President Donald Trump said Tuesday at a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem.