Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate with the US although he was under pressure from Arab countries, a Fatah movement official said Sunday, Anadolu reports. How Do #Democrats and #Republicans Differ on #Palestine and […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today that the condition of the endurance of the Palestinian cause and enhancing the political program lies in the elections, promising to do everything possible to facilitate it. #US Envoy […]
Senior officials from Fatah and Hamas, along with those from other Palestinian organizations, are discussing the creation of committees to expedite the decisions taken at the secretary general-level meeting held in Beirut last week. On […]
Palestinians were left furious after Suha Arafat, the widow of former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat apologized to the UAE for protests against UAE-Israel normalization, the New Arab reported. The 57-year-old former first lady, who has not […]
Hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday held a protest in the occupied West Bank against last week’s announcement that Israel was normalizing ties with the United Arab Emirates. Members of all Palestinian factions took part in […]
Preparations are underway for a massive unity rally between Hamas and Fatah, which is said to be the first of its kind since the two Palestinian factions clashed in the summer of 2007. News of […]
For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding the release of the bodies of […]
In two separate statements, top Russian and Turkish officials declared their countries’ support for unity between the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions. On Friday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed a joint press conference a […]
Hamas and Fatah have agreed to unite to confront Israel’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank, they said in a statement yesterday. Saleh al–Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, and Major General Jibril Rajoub, secretary of Fatah‘s Central Committee (FCC), […]
Israeli Prison Service today transferred a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner to solitary confinement, according to a statement released by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) placed Sami Janazreh, who […]
On Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces “brutally and barbarically” arrested Fatah MP Hussam Khader from his house in the West Bank city of Nablus, his daughter, Amira Khader, revealed. “[PA] Protective Security Services broke […]
Members of Fatah’s Central Committee, Rawhi Fattouh, and Ismail Jaber arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Erez Crossing on Friday morning, Quds Press reported. #Kushner Blames Palestinian President for Uptick in Violence https://t.co/fgv5ZfIUyu via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/ZCkX2QhEsp […]
Fatah and the PLO have postponed their delegations’ visits to Gaza, in what Hamas said was a “negative message” to Palestinians, Quds Press reported yesterday. Head of Fatah’s parliamentarian bloc Azzam Al-Ahmad speaking to Palestine TV yesterday that his […]
Imprisoned senior Fatah official, Marwan Barghouti, will run against the incumbent Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the country’s upcoming presidential election, member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council Hatem Abdel Qader announced yesterday. Abdel Qader told Quds […]
Palestinian prisoner General Fuad Al-Shobaki has slammed members of PLO’s Central and Executive Committees as well as members of Fatah’s Military and Revolutionary Councils for ignoring the issue of prisoners being held in Israeli jails, […]
Fatah is ready to run in the Palestinian elections alongside Hamas, a member of the movement’s Central Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad said yesterday. In an interview with Al-Resalah, Al-Ahmad said that Hanna Nasser, the head of the […]
15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu Ammar” have been shared across numerous social media platforms remembering a […]
Illegal Jewish settlers yesterday attacked Fatah’s deputy leader Mahmoud Al-Aloul as he toured the occupied Old City of Hebron (Al-Khalil), Anadolu Agency reported. Hebron Municipality said in a statement that a “group of Jewish settlers” attacked […]
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, yesterday met with representatives of Palestinian factions in Gaza to discuss the upcoming elections. In a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the UN […]
A delegation from the Palestinian Elections Committee entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening for a meeting with factional and NGO officials, Safa news agency has reported. The Chairman of the #Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC), Hanna […]
The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian and Arabic websites, including Quds News Network sites, following a decision by a local Magistrate’s Court. Palestinians are angered at the decision which was revealed yesterday, as not a single site on […]
The Palestinian Central Elections Committee is to start meetings and discussions with Palestinian factions and NGOs in preparation for holding parliamentary elections, Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday. The #Palestinian Centra #Elections #Committee is to #Start […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formed a commission to follow up on the plan to hold elections in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), reported Asharq Al-Awsat. The formation of the commission took place in a meeting […]
The Islamic Palestinian movement, Hamas, announced on Thursday its readiness to carry out presidential parliamentary National Council elections, a statement confirmed. In the statement, a copy of which was sent to MEMO, Hamas announced: “Based […]
Sixty-one percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip want President Mahmoud Abbas to step down, a poll has found. Felesteen.ps reported that a survey conducted by the by Palestinian Centre for Political […]
The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey and all over the world. The Conference was a rare opportunity aimed […]
The Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah on Saturday slammed recent Israeli offensives on the blockaded Gaza strip since Friday which have killed at least five Palestinians and left dozens wounded, reports Anadolu Agency. Hamas on […]
The West Bank is under threat of annexation by Israel now; the caged Palestinians in Gaza are clamoring, at a grassroots level, for the right to return to their homes and property a few kilometers […]
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has returned “millions of shekels” to Israel, which the latter had secretly-transferred to the Fatah movement, Israel’s Channel 7 announced yesterday. The channel said: “The Israeli government has secretly-transferred millions of shekels […]
Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah and PLO President Mahmoud Abbas said talks with the US are “useless”, Arabs48 reported yesterday. During the first meeting with the new PA government, which sworn in on Saturday, he said: “The coming […]
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