TEL AVIV – In a rare move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah party said Sunday that it will stand behind its rival Hamas in opposing a U.S.-drafted resolution condemning the terror group at the United Nations General Assembly.
A man was killed and two women were seriously injured after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip scored a direct hit on an apartment building in Ashkelon.
The San Diego Union-Tribune published a front-page story on Thursday examining Ammar Campa-Najjar’s family history, noting that the Democrat’s grandfather was not merely a member of a terrorist organization, but a leader.
Egypt has warned PA President Mahmoud Abbas not to impose new sanctions on the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official in Ramallah said on Wednesday.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Security forces of the rival Palestinian governments routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests, among other tactics, to quash dissent by peaceful activists and political rivals, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
The leaders of Hamas and Fatah have failed their people and have turned them into “beggars and street vendors who can hardly earn a living,” senior Hamas official Ahmed Yousef said on Monday.
A senior Egyptian delegation is scheduled to visit Ramallah on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avert a military confrontation in the Gaza Strip and end the Hamas-Fatah rift.
A senior Hamas official on Sunday accused Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas of fomenting violence in the region and pushing Israel toward a new war in the Gaza Strip.
A group of Hamas leaders met with an Egyptian security delegation in the Gaza Strip to discuss Cairo’s efforts to advance Palestinian reconciliation Saturday.
JERUSALEM – Israel has invented a state-of-the-art method of injuring Palestinians that is undetectable by cameras, according to the latest conspiracy theory touted by an official of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Tuesday razed the home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli man in a stabbing attack last month, the Defense Ministry said, adding that rioting Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at soldiers involved in the demolition.
Since taking office eighteen months ago, President Donald Trump has proven himself beyond a doubt to be the most pro-Israel president in American history. However, even close friends with the best of intentions at times need a gentle nudge to realize that their approach needs some realignment. Trump’s statements about Israel at a campaign rally last night in Charleston, West Virginia, suggest that this might be the case.
Israeli tanks struck two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip Friday evening after a grenade was hurled at troops and amid intense violence during mass riots in several locations along the border
This week’s massive escalation of rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip spotlights the security dangers faced by Israel if the Jewish state evacuates territory either unilaterally or in a deal with the Palestinians, contended Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein.
A woman was seriously injured early Thursday morning when a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a home in the Eshkol regional council near the Palestinian enclave.
Hamas said on Sunday it was “disgusted” by the stance its rivals in Fatah have taken toward Egyptian and UN efforts to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip, and charged Fatah with wanting Gaza to remain under siege and shelling.
The ruling Palestinian Fatah faction on Saturday warned Hamas against reaching a cease-fire agreement with Israel in return for humanitarian and economic aid to the Gaza Strip and said such a deal would be a “free gift to Israel.”
JERUSALEM – The teenage terrorist who murdered a 31-year-old father of two on Thursday was hailed by the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah party as a “martyr.” Terrorist Muhammad Tareq Dar Yusuf, 17, snuck into the Adam settlement outside
Police forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque during clashes with Muslim worshipers Friday afternoon that led to an hours-long closure of the Jerusalem holy site.
The stone that fell from the Western Wall earlier this week proves that Israel has devised a plan to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, a spokesperson for the ruling Fatah faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Thursday.
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed three Israeli men after entering the West Bank settlement of Adam, northeast of Jerusalem, on Thursday night, the IDF said.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday vowed that his government will continue to pay salaries to terrorists and their families even if “we have only a penny left.”
TEL AVIV – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov on Sunday appealed to the Palestinians to cease all rocket, mortar and incendiary kite attacks on Israel.
The Security Cabinet is to convene for an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon to deal with the escalating violence in Gaza, as Palestinians fired dozens of rockets into Israel and the IDF attacked more than 40 targets in the Strip on Saturday in the most extensive daytime assault since 2014’s Operation Protective Edge.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority warned Israel that it’s newly passed law to deduct terrorists’ salaries from its monthly tax revenues is “a declaration of war on the Palestinian people.” “The Palestinian presidency strongly refuses to accept this severe
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has slammed the ongoing Jerusalem Festival of Light as an Israeli attempt to “Judaize” the city.
At least two Palestinians were killed and five injured on Saturday evening in an explosion in an apartment in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for issuing a blanket rejection of the U.S. peace proposal before seeing it, but added that the U.S. is willing to work with the Palestinian leader, in a rare interview published Sunday.
Undercover Hamas operatives attacked Palestinian protesters on Monday during a march held in Saraya Square in the center of Gaza City.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is “the copy of Hitler” who would rather see Palestinians “dead” than free, an official from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction wrote in an oped published in the PA’s daily Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The official Facebook page of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction this week published a photoshopped image of President Donald Trump being “arrested” on the Temple Mount by soldiers of “Palestine” due to his decision to transfer the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas has been hospitalized with fever.
In recent days, we have been treated to the remarkable spectacle of international outrage and criticism of Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on account of his latest anti-Semitic speech.
President Mahmud Abbas was reelected head of the Palestine Liberation Organization Friday, as the veteran leader seeks to strengthen his control over politics in the occupied West Bank.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party recently marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Abu Jihad, the architect of the first Intifada credited by the PA for the murder of at least 125 Israelis, by calling for more attacks in his honor, naming children’s camps after him and hailing him as a “role model.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will no longer be responsible for what happens in Gaza if Hamas continues to refuse to hand over full control of the coastal enclave and its weapons to the PA government, he said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Having female terrorist leaders is proof of gender equality in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, the PA’s official newspaper quoted its secretary-general as saying earlier this month in honor of International Women’s Day.
Contents: Gaza Palestinians burn tires to hide protests from Israel’s army; Hamas and Fatah/PLO criticized for contradictory strategies
Some 1,500 people took part in a demonstration in the Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin Saturday in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip.
NEW YORK — The international news media has been “spreading Hamas propaganda” by citing unverified casualty numbers and depicting the Hamas-instigated Gaza border riots as protests intended to be peaceful, Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein charged.
