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TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian officials on Monday categorically denied reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had agreed to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow.

TEL AVIV – The Fatah leadership has been in turmoil since media reports suggested that the movement has been milling the appointment of a former Hamas-affiliated politician as its nominee for the local elections in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli security guards at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem shot a Palestinian woman in the leg Tuesday after she charged at them and ignored calls to stop, police said.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not made a significant move to signal whom he wants to succeed him as the head of the PA, the PLO or Fatah.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to go anywhere to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to negotiate, but the setting of preconditions for such talks is a non-starter, a government source said Wednesday amid speculation of a fourway summit in Cairo.

Nine Jewish Israeli citizens were evacuated from Ramallah unharmed after local residents set their car on fire on Wednesday night, the army said.

TEL AVIV – Arab and Muslim leaders have been deliberately shunning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, disappointed at what they see as his failed leadership, a top Palestinian official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Recent corruption scandals may jeopardize stability in the West Bank, with Palestinians possibly turning their ire on the Palestinian Authority and not just Israel, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The IDF mistakenly killed a 15-year old Palestinian teen and mistakenly injured another Palestinian who where near a violent incident of stone throwing along Route 443 in the West Bank late Monday night.

Mellanox Technologies is looking to take advantage of a resource largely untapped by Israel’s high-tech companies: Palestinians.

Pilgrims to Bethlehem often return home with candles or rosaries, but for those who see religion as more than skin-deep, tattoo artist Walid Ayash is there to help. The 39-year-old Palestinian specialises in Christian themes. His repertoire includes around 100

TEL AVIV – An Arab American girl’s horrific story of being forced by her mother to become a teen bride to an older Palestinian older man and her subsequent escape back to the U.S. has gone viral.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — France’s prime minister said Tuesday that peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is also important for security in Europe.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A gated community of villas with well-tended flower gardens near the West Bank town of Ramallah may help explain why Palestinians almost universally believe there is corruption in the government of President Mahmoud Abbas.

TEL AVIV (AFP) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was Sunday in Israel to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of opposition from his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The new French peace initiative should set a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told reporters during an English-language press conference in Ramallah on Monday afternoon.

The Jerusalem Post reports: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was set to arrived in Israel Saturday night to update Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a new peace initiative his country plans to launch at the end of this month.

JERUSALEM — A leader of the international boycott movement against Israel on Tuesday accused Israeli authorities of imposing a travel ban on him as retribution for his political activities.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories this month in a bid to relaunch the peace process following the worst flare-up of violence in the Gaza Strip for two years, his office said Tuesday.

The Times of Israel reports: Kuwait’s minister of information, Sheikh Salman a-Sabah visited the Temple Mount on Saturday to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque, later meeting with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian driver who rammed his vehicle into three Israeli soldiers, injuring them, on a road in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army said.

Arutz Sheva reports: The radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has pursued an Islamic Caliphate since 1953, held a massive conference in Ramallah on Saturday, calling upon the armies of Jordan and Egypt to intervene directly and “free Palestine.”

JAFFA, Israel – Fatah’s uphill campaign to win a majority in the key election for Bir Zeit University’s student body failed as Hamas clinched 25 seats against 21 won by Fatah.

The Times of Israel reports: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (pictured) will arrive in Israel Monday for the first-ever official visit by a Singaporean head of state. Lee will be accompanied by a 60-member delegation, including his foreign minister

I’m starting to understand the attitude of the wildly misinformed anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. I’d be anti-Israel too if I believed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ slanderous statements about the Jewish state, especially regarding the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Israeli forces raided a money changer in the Palestinian political capital Ramallah early on Thursday, blowing up a safe and sparking a fire, which led to minor clashes, the army and witnesses said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the pre-dawn

The only power plant in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip was at a standstill on Tuesday due to an ongoing shortage of fuel caused largely by a dispute over taxes, officials said. The plant has been closed since Saturday night when

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  An Israeli colonel has been cleared of any criminal charges after shooting dead a Palestinian teen who stoned his jeep in the West Bank last year, the military said Monday. A rights group that distributed a video showing

JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah met with the family of the Palestinian murderer of an Israeli teenager, telling them that she is “counting the days until …Abd Al-Fattah [is] a free man,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of denying entry to the Indonesian foreign minister because she refused to meet with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi

Israeli forces raided the West Bank offices of Palestine Today television overnight and arrested its manager over allegations of inciting violence, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said on Friday. The operation targeting the station’s Ramallah offices was the latest

The Jerusalem Post reports:  The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it was unaware of any new US effort to resume the stalled peace process with Israel.  Ahmed Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the PA leadership

The Times of Israel reports: Financial aid to the Palestinian Authority should be granted irrespective of its educational policies, anti-Israel or anti-Semitic incitement, a Swedish minister said. Speaking in parliament at a debate Friday about Stockholm’s assistance to Ramallah, Minister

JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority will oppose an EU-brokered proposal to create a maritime route between Gaza and Cyprus, a PA official has said. Azzam Elahmad, head of the Fatah negotiating team with Hamas, said that the PA ruled out a proposal

TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian Authority officials told a group of British lawmakers on Wednesday that the MPs were responsible for causing the entire Israel-Palestine conflict, the Times of Israel reported. “It’s difficult to see that these people could be

TEL AVIV – Nearly half of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for attacks or attempted attacks against Israeli civilians during the ongoing so-called cycle of violence are aged 20 or less, and more than one in 10 were carried out by women,