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Municipal elections that were to be held in the West Bank and Gaza early next month have been postponed by a Palestinian Authority Supreme Court decision but it is already being contested. The court that made the ruling is based Read more
While Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas seeks to mobilize international support for the French proposal to hold an international peace conference to solve the Palestine-Israel conflict, Hamas claims that peace talks with Israel have “failed” and deems the French initiative an Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority presided over the swearing-in ceremony of three new ministers but the move was not welcomed by Hamas as one of its leaders accuse Abbas of sidelining national consensus in such matters and also Read more
Hamas handed over control of the late Yasser Arafat’s home in Ramallah to Fatah on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the demise of the iconic Palestinian President in 2004, following a mysterious illness. The handing over of the Read more
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was in Jerusalem on Tuesday in an unannounced visit and met with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as tensions continue in the West Bank and Jerusalem. He said his visit “reflects the Read more
The Palestinian Authority, on Thursday, announced that a long awaited reshuffle of the Palestinian cabinet had been agreed upon but Hamas rejected the move citing that it is illegitimate. Despite Hamas’s position, the new cabinet members are expected to be Read more
The consensus government known as the Unity government between Hamas and Fatah could resign in the following hours after some officials of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement who were present at a meeting held in Ramallah with President Mahmoud Abbas Read more
The Palestinian government has frowned at an Israeli government report on the 2014 Gaza war which lasted for 50 days that the U.N claimed killed around 2,200 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and 73 Israelis, most of them soldiers. The report prepared Read more
The two-day convention of the 110-member Palestinian Central Council (PCC) in Ramallah ended with a statement urging President Abbas and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee to suspend “all forms of security coordination, given Israel’s systematic and ongoing noncompliance with Read more
US Secretary of State John Kerry could be throwing in towel as his efforts to end the long standing conflict between Israel and Palestine seem limited. Kerry has crisscrossed between the two countries to bring the two authorities together but Read more