Yahya Sinwar, the political chief in Gaza for the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, stated on Tuesday that the group’s military capability is better than ever, and reiterated that it will not disarm as part of a reconciliation deal with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.
A delegation of senior Hamas officials arrived in Iran Friday on a mission to improve ties between the Palestinian terror group and the Islamic Republic.
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s king has endorsed a fledgling Palestinian reconciliation agreement that is meant to end a decade-old political and ideological split between rivals Hamas and Fatah.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian university welcomed incoming students with a giant banner depicting Palestinian arch-terrorists as “heroes.”
TEL AVIV — Jordanian authorities have decided not to open any official Hamas embassy or consulate in the kingdom, according to a report in the Jordanian Al Ghad newspaper.
JERUSALEM – A top aide to US President Donald Trump said Thursday that an emerging Palestinian unity government must recognise Israel and disarm Hamas, Washington’s first detailed response to a landmark reconciliation deal signed last week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Tuesday announced the Israeli government would cease all so-called peace talks with the Palestinian Authority after it secured a reconciliation deal last week with the Hamas terrorist organization unless Hamas met certain conditions.
NEW YORK — Now that the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terrorist organization have sealed a pact to create a unity government, the Trump administration should immediately halt all attempts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian deal, argued Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein.
Fatah and Hamas agreed in talks in Cairo last week to make joint decisions on matters related to escalating violent conflict with Israel as well as making peace, the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday, citing well-informed Palestinian sources.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Fatah movement has not demanded that Hamas recognize the state of Israel, Ahmad Guneim, a member of Fatah’s revolutionary council, told Breitbart Jerusalem just hours after it was announced that Hamas and Fatah had reached a reconciliation deal on Thursday.
Contents: Iraqi troops and tanks seen massing near Kirkuk, poised to attack Kurds; Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas announce unity agreement; Turkey’s tanks and troops cross border into Syria’s Idlib in apparent truce with HTS
Hamas and Fatah declared December 1 as the deadline for the Palestinian Authority to take over the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Contents: Palestinian reconciliation talks ignore Hamas commitment to destroy Israel; Palestinian unity talks face disagreement on Hamas’s ‘resistance weapons’
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will visit Gaza for the first time in a decade within a month, a top official in his Fatah party said on Thursday, after reconciliation talks with rivals Hamas.
High-level Hamas and Fatah delegations are scheduled to participate in reconciliation talks in Cairo on Tuesday in a bid to start work on ending the decade-long territorial division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV — The inclusion of Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, the director general of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, on the FBI’s most wanted list of terrorists was slammed by a member of the central committee of Fatah, the movement led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party recently distributed high school planners to Palestinian youth featuring the arch terrorists behind the Black September terror group responsible for the Munich massacre.
TEL AVIV — Hamas will continue to hold onto its weapons in order to fight Israel, the terrorist group’s so-called political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said in an interview with the Egyptian television station ON.TV.
Joint (Arab) List party leader Ayman Odeh on Tuesday night called Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah movement, to congratulate them on the reconciliation talks between their respective movements.
The PA cannot reconcile with Hamas at Israel’s expense, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in his first reaction to the latest unity deal between the Palestinian factions.
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt called on the Palestinian leadership on Monday to recognize Israel and commit to nonviolence as a precondition to resuming negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
The government of the Palestinian Authority is set to begin fulfilling governmental roles in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said Monday, announcing that his government has arrived in the enclave to move into governmental offices and accept responsibility for security and border crossings.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party is running yet another children’s summer camp named after the terrorist behind the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
TEL AVIV — The movements of Hamas and Fatah are continuing to prepare for the possibility of a reconciliation deal that would see Hamas ostensibly hand over of power in the Gaza Strip to the government of the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah, the movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
TEL AVIV — The Hamas movement won’t agree to any movement on the issue of relinquishing weapons currently held by Hamas during reconciliation discussions with Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, according to Hamas deputy politburo chief Mousa Abu Marzook.
TEL AVIV – Residents of Har Adar, where three people were murdered Tuesday by a Palestinian terrorist who was once employed there, are rethinking whether they should continue to employ Palestinians at the settlement.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah movement praised the terrorist who shot and killed three Israelis on Tuesday as a martyr who was willing to die for his stolen homeland.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian terrorist organizations praised the terrorist attack carried out Tuesday by a 37-year-old Palestinian who murdered three Israelis.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to condemn Tuesday’s terror attack in Har Adar that saw two security guards and one border police officer murdered.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian terrorist who shot and killed three Israelis in Har Adar on Tuesday morning was a “completely normal” and “good-natured” man who was employed as a cleaner for some of the families at the settlement, one of the residents said.
TEL AVIV – Israeli lawmakers said Tuesday’s terror attack in Har Adar near Jerusalem is a “message” to Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt – who arrived the same day in Israel to continue U.S. efforts to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations – that the Palestinians are not interested in peace.
Three Israelis were reportedly killed and another was moderately wounded in an apparent terrorist attack outside a West Bank Jewish community northwest of Jerusalem.
Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah will travel to the Gaza Strip on October 2 as part of renewed reconciliation efforts with Hamas, which runs the enclave, his government said Monday.
Contents: Hamas announces it will reconcile with the Fatah and Palestinian Authority; Egypt forces Hamas to capitulate to Fatah and reconcile.
President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on Sunday welcomed a pledge by its Hamas rivals to accept key conditions for ending a decade-old Palestinian political and territorial split, but said it wants to see vows implemented before making the next move.
JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah recently declared that the Palestinian Authority will remain loyal to “martyrs” – i.e. terrorists – who are “perfuming the ground with the scent of their blood” by getting killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis.
Ismail Haniya, head of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, travelled on Saturday to Egypt for his first visit there since his election, the group said.
TEL AVIV — Financial support from Qatar to various projects in the Gaza Strip has been significantly reduced since the beginning of the crisis in relations between Qatar and the Gulf states, leaving a vacuum that has begun to be filled in the last several weeks by the United Arab Emirates, Arab media has reported.
TEL AVIV — Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to call on the UN General Assembly to determine Palestinian state borders when it convenes in two weeks, according to Dalal Salama, a member of Fatah’s central committee.
TEL AVIV – Speaking in Germany at an inauguration event for a long-awaited memorial to the 1972 Munich massacre, President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday slammed the Palestinian Authority for continuing to glorify the Black September Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympics that year.
