TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.
Days after the 12th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leaders descended into new recriminations over who may have been involved in the demise of the former president.
Dozens of Palestinian Authority public servants in Gaza have reportedly not yet received last month’s salary after being suspected by President Mahmoud Abbas of being loyal to his main challenger within the Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan.
Hamas has stepped up measures against Islamic State loyalists in the Gaza Strip, an official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – Israel is plotting to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just as it murdered PLO chief Yasser Arafat, members of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed.
Israel on Monday formally rejected France’s invitation to take part in a Middle East peace conference in Paris later this year, saying it was a distraction from the goal of direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Constitutional Court, a body set up months ago by President Mahmoud Abbas, ruled on Sunday that he can revoke the parliamentary immunity of lawmakers, a move that effectively allows him to sideline rivals.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday told visiting Italian President Sergio Mattarella that Israel was “gravely disappointed” by Italy’s abstention in a UNESCO vote last month that ignored Jewish and Christian links to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, but was heartened to hear a subsequent pledge from Italy’s prime minister that it would oppose such resolutions in the future.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ movement welcomed a shooting in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers wounded.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s top internecine rival, Mohammad Dahlan, often mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed the 81-year-old leader, said Sunday he will not run for president in future Palestinian elections.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”
JERUSALEM – Palestinian college students are being encouraged to die by committing terrorist attacks rather than dying natural deaths, as per the inscription of a new monument erected in Al Quds University.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with the heads of rival party Hamas in Qatar on Thursday, in direct talks aimed at ending years of hostility between the two movements.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian National Security Forces, the Palestinian Authority body that coordinates with Israel on security matters, published two cartoons demonizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli soldiers.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian children’s drawings posted by President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement show images of “Israel” drinking the blood of Palestinians and eating their bodies with knives and forks.
JAFFA, Israel – With social media becoming a growing source of political dissent, Arab law enforcement agencies have started targeting high-profile users whose posts have gone viral.
Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, welcomed on Thursday a UNESCO resolution which fails to acknowledge Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential pardon on Wednesday, nullifying a court decision to sentence a Palestinian Authority security officer to a year in jail for critiquing Abbas’ participation in the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
JERUSALEM – It seems that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party just doesn’t know when to quit. A day after the faction praised Sunday’s “heroic” terror attack that killed two Israelis, Fatah celebrated the deaths by posting a cartoon of the Dome of the Rock with a victorious hand clutching an assault rifle atop the mosque.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. blasted the “reprehensible and cowardly” attack in Jerusalem in which an Arab terrorist shot and killed two Israelis and injured six others, and further slammed Palestinian factions for celebrating the shooting.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official daily published a cartoon propagating the libel that Jews and Israel control the world by controlling every move the U.S. makes.
The latest anti-Semitic cartoon posted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party shows a yarmulke-wearing hooked-nose Jew relaxing in an armchair etched with a Jewish Star of David while he uses a remote control to bomb buildings in Gaza.
The 81-year-old Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, was given a clean bill of health on Thursday following an emergency heart procedure after suffering exhaustion and chest pains.
TEL AVIV – The nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is reported to be the most likely successor to head the Palestinian Authority after an aging Mahmoud Abbas steps down.
A West Bank hospital official says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will undergo a heart test after being hospitalized.
The Palestinian Presidential Guard has upped security measures for President Mahmoud Abbas following his controversial participation in former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral last week.
JAFFA, Israel – Some Fatah factions have joined the chorus of critics condemning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for attending former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral on Friday.
Palestinians will “defeat the occupation” and establish a state with Jerusalem as its capital, hopefully as early as 2017, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.
A top Hamas official said Saturday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was tantamount to “a Jew” for his participation in the funeral of former president Shimon Peres, Channel 2 News reported.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Friday.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the “unfinished business of peace” at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel’s founding fathers.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral on Friday of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli leader who won international acclaim for peacemaking with the Palestinians.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to attend Shimon Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem tomorrow, at the head of a PA delegation, Palestinian and Israeli officials said Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders have lambasted a Saudi newspaper for siding with Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu by criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to accept the Israeli premier’s invitation to address the Knesset.
JAFFA, Israel – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has come under fire for extending his condolences to the family of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – A Saudi daily chastised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for rebuffing an invitation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Israeli Knesset.
JERUSALEM – The summer vacation may be over but the after effects of summer camps geared at inciting Palestinian youth to violence are still being felt by Israelis who are coming to terms with six terror attacks that rocked the country over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Minister of Justice dismissed stabbings as “baseless excuses” for what he termed the “murder” and “summary executions” of “unarmed” Palestinians following nine terror attacks in five days.
NEW YORK — During his speech here at the United Nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the international body as a “moral farce,” and referred to one UN agency as a “joke” and another as a “circus.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian terrorist who attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem on Friday as “a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with his blood.”
