BEIJING — China will host a symposium between Israel and the Palestinians later this year, a Chinese official said Tuesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “ceaselessly” contribute towards peace in the region.
JERUSALEM — Muslim rioters engaged in violent clashes targeting Israeli security forces in Jerusalem’s Old City near a main entrance to the Temple Mount, with reports of at least 34 people injured, including 14 requiring hospitalization.
The Temple Mount is “a holy place for Muslims only, and no one but the Muslims have any religious or historical right there,” Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
Israel has no historic or religious right or affinity to the al-Aqsa Mosque, and “Israel’s actions in that place are unilateral actions meant to strengthen Israel’s grip on Jerusalem,” Hatem Abdel Qader, the head of Jerusalem matters for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called for a “Day of Rage” on Wednesday to protest new security measures installed at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem starting Sunday, two days after a terror attack by three Israeli-Arabs killed two Israeli police officers.
TEL AVIV — At least three people were injured on Monday when dozens of Palestinian Muslim worshippers clashed with Israeli security forces outside a main entrance to the Temple Mount.
JERUSALEM – In the aftermath of Friday’s Temple Mount terror attack in which two Israeli policemen were killed by Arab-Israeli gunmen, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction rebroadcast Abbas’ 2014 call to stop the Jews from “defiling” Muslim holy sites using “in any way whatsoever.”
Contents: Muslim leaders express outrage at metal detectors at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount; Concerns grow of a new round of violence at compound
On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to discuss the Taylor Force Act, which, if passed, would cut financial aid from the United States to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the PA stops its “pay for slay” payments which reward terrorists.
TEL AVIV — Former Palestinian Welfare Minister Shawqi al-Issa has revealed in a Facebook post the reasons for his resignation two years ago from the government of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, setting off a storm within the Palestinian Authority.
TEL AVIV – Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special representative to the Middle East, returned to Israel Sunday night for the second time in a month, a White House official said.
TEL AVIV – The murder of 22 children and their teachers in a terror attack in the 1970s was an “act of heroism,” a program broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV declared last week.
The Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers as part of a series of measures to get the terror group to cede control of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reports said on Sunday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is expected to sit down on Sunday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for a meeting that is being described as critical to the future relations of the two sides.
The umbrella group that represents leading Jewish organizations in the US issued on Thursday a stinging rebuke to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for his defiant confirmation that the policy of so-called “martyr payments” — monthly donations to approximately 35,000 families of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists that are higher than the average wage in the PA — will not be halted.
TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday slammed U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Haley for carrying out a “one-woman crusade” against the Palestinian people.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to never cease paying terrorists their monthly salaries – even if it costs him his job, according to an announcement on his party’s Facebook page Sunday.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will travel to Cairo over the weekend to meet with Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi for “urgent” talks, the PA’s envoy to Egypt said Tuesday, amid tensions over Egypt’s involvement in an internal Palestinian rift.
TEL AVIV – Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday re-erected a monument in honor of a Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the massacre of Israeli schoolchildren in the 1970s, a day after it was bulldozed by the Israeli military.
TEL AVIV — The Fatah movement, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has harshly condemned an incident in which the IDF destroyed a monument that was erected in the city center of Jenin of a Palestinian terrorist who was involved in the murder of dozens of Israelis.
The Algemeiner reports: The US is seeking to establish a “Palestinian entity,” not an “independent state,” a top Hamas official claimed this week, the Hebrew news site nrg reported. Furthermore, Moussa Abu Marzouk — the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau — asserted
The State Department rejected claims that a meeting last week between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and senior White House official Jared Kushner went awry and an unconfirmed report that US President Donald Trump was ready to pull the plug on efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists and their families would seem to argue against Mahmoud Abbas being a serious partner for peace. One simply cannot seek peace and reward the most cold-hearted perpetrators of the most savage violence.
TEL AVIV — The number of Palestinians who have died since the Palestinian Authority (PA) refused to pay for their hospitalization in Israel has risen to 12, including three infants, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.
TEL AVIV – Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon joins the chorus of security officials expressing support for U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would cut off American funds to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
TEL AVIV – A group of former top Israeli security officials have expressed support for a proposed U.S. legislation that would cut off American funds to the Palestinian Authority until it stops the payment of salaries to terrorists and their families.
Contents: Saudi Arabia, UAE leak 13 demands to end Qatar crisis; UAE threatens ‘parting of the ways’ unless Qatar meets 13 demands; Al-Jazeera takes center stage in the Gulf crisis
TEL AVIV – Relatives of American-Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks warned President Donald Trump’s advisors Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt on Friday that peace between Israel and the Palestinians was impossible until the Palestinian Authority ends both of its policies of paying salaries to terrorists and their families and inciting and educating violence against Israelis.
A meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and senior White House official Jared Kushner reportedly left the Palestinian leader fuming and refusing to agree to watered-down demands that Ramallah cut off payments for some convicted terrorists and their families.
This week, the Palestinian leadership met with President Donald Trump’s envoys to the Middle East and refused, point blank, to stop paying terrorists and their families.
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday of increasing pressure on Hamas in the Gaza Strip to “drag it to war with Israel.” Lieberman, who spoke at the Herzliya Conference, warned that “the situation in Gaza can’t last forever.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is committed to reaching a serious peace deal, Palestinian media quoted Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saying following a late night meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday warmly greeted US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, in Jerusalem.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law, along with Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, met on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the president’s residence in Ramallah.
JERUSALEM – Ahead of the arrival of senior Middle East advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt in the region to advance a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority named yet another square after the terrorist mastermind behind the murder of 22 children.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas reportedly said on Sunday that it neither wants nor expects another round of conflict with Israel, despite recent tension over the energy crisis in the coastal enclave.
TEL AVIV – Senior White House advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East this week in order to advance a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, according to a White House official.
Contents: Three Palestinians shot dead after killing female Israeli officer; Hamas, ISIS argue over who gets credit for killing female Israeli officer
TEL AVIV — Egypt and Hamas have agreed that Hamas will continue managing the Gaza Strip’s internal affairs while former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, a leading political opponent of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will help run Gaza’s foreign affairs, according to an Islamic Jihad official who gave an interview to a Lebanese television station.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Palestinian Authority for its failure to condemn Friday’s terror attack in The Old City of Jerusalem, and urged the international community to put pressure on the Palestinians to end the practice of paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
