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President Mahmoud Abbas made Monday unplanned trip to Riyadh leading Palestinians to wonder if their leader is also resigning from office few days after Lebanese former Prime Minister Saad Hariri surprisingly announced his resignation from the Saudi capital. The President Read more
Doha will fund the construction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) headquarters in Gaza in a move supporting reconciliation between West Bank-based government dominated by Fatah and Gaza ruler Hamas, Qatar’s envoy to Gaza said on Tuesday. “Qatar has agreed to Read more
Hamas has announced it sealed a unity agreement with rival West Bank-based Fatah after two days of talks in Cairo. The Head of Gaza-based Islamist group Ismail Haniyeh said both parties reached a deal on the management of Gaza, which Read more
President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas has indicated that he will not accept any copy of Lebanon-based Hezbollah in Palestine in reference to Hamas’s control of the Gaza Strip. Abbas’s Fatah which controls the PA has been re-accepted Read more
Palestinian internationally recognized Prime Minister answering leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected in Gaza today to make the turn of Fatah which controls the Palestinian Authority as schism with rival Hamas looks edging towards end. Rami Hamdallah is expected in Gaza Read more
UN Chief Antonio Guterres ended Wednesday his three-day tour of Palestine and Israel by announcing $4 million aid for Gaza, which is living one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes the world have ever known. Guterres was in the enclaved Strip Read more
King Abdullah of Jordan and president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Monday to establish a joint crisis committee that would follow up the Israeli violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to PA Foreign Minister Riyadh Al-Maliki, Abbas and Read more
The Islamist Hamas Movement ruling Gaza Strip has warned against the holding of the Palestinian National Council meetings in Israel-occupied West Bank arguing that the move opposes the agreement reached by factions in Beirut early this year. The movement’s spokesperson Read more
Fatah and Hamas could be on the verge of reaching a power-sharing agreement, which could further relax the blockade on the crossing point with Egypt. Revealing details of the possible agreement in a telephone interview with Associated Press, Mohammed Dahlan, Read more
Jordan, in its capacity as the custodian of the Al-Aqsa mosque, has sent its Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi to Brussels to meet with European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Moghreini. State-run Jordanian Petra News Agency reported that Safadi “warned against Read more