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The Palestinian Authority agreed Monday to end the so-called “Pay to Slay” policy of paying stipends to Palestinian terrorists, alive or dead — though Israel said that the Palestinian government was simply trying to reroute the funds.

A growing number of young Gazans have long sought to leave the enclave due to political repression under Hamas, economic collapse, and lack of basic freedoms, a trend that has gained renewed attention following President Donald Trump’s call for other countries to take in displaced Palestinians, especially as more than a year of war has left Gaza in ruins and intensified the desire to emigrate.

Outrage erupted after the Palestinian leader commended Yasser Abu Bakr, a convicted murderer who was released in Israel’s ceasefire deal with the terrorist group Hamas.

The Palestinian Authority froze operations of Al Jazeera for “broadcasting inciting materials and reports characterized by misinformation.”

A group of families of Israeli hostages said Tuesday at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, that their government should strive to achieve an agreement in which all 100 captives remaining in Gaza are freed, not just a few.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro declared over the weekend that his regional far-left coalition ALBA-TCP — a notoriously anti-U.S. and anti-Israel group — would one day hold a summit in a “free Jerusalem.”

The government of Saudi Arabia hosted the inaugural meeting of the “International Alliance to Implement the Two-State Solution,” a nebulous coalition organized by Riyadh to formalize the creation of a Palestinian state.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed a terrorist leader in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Thursday, along with several other terrorists. In response, the Palestinian Authority arrested an Al Jazeera reporter who was blamed for supposedly identifying the targets.

The government of Saudi Arabia will reportedly end an eight-year embargo on funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with millions of dollars in relief money for the “humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demanded Israel be stripped of membership in the United Nations in his address to the 2024 General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday.

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan held meetings on Monday with the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Islamist President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, all in New York in anticipation of the U.N. General Assembly.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution Wednesday that effectively bars Israel from self-defense in any of the territory it captured in a defensive war in 1967, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.

The socialist government of Brazil announced on Monday that it had enacted a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority, the organization in charge of the West Bank, in a show of solidarity with the anti-Israel cause.

The Palestinian Authority appeared to condemn Iranian “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for celebrating the Hamas atrocities in Israel on October 7, stating on Monday that Iran was “sacrificing the blood of the Palestinian people for its own interests.”

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military wing of the “moderate” Fatah party to which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas belongs, claimed Tuesday that it was involved in the October 7 terror attack on Israel.

Roughly a third of Democrat voters revealed that they feel President Joe Biden should be “tougher” on Israel, according to a recent poll.

Israel declined to confirm or deny reports Thursday that the Biden administration had given it a “green light” for limited strikes against Hamas in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, which it had previously opposed.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reportedly told other UN agencies to reject funding and tasks that ordinarily would fall to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has been linked to Palestinian terror.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government performed the empty gesture of resignation on Monday — with the notable exception of President Mahmoud Abbas — in an attempt to appease U.S. pressure for “reform” as a condition for governing postwar Gaza.

Participants at an ongoing meeting of the top diplomats of G20 states achieved “virtual unanimity” on demanding the establishment of a state of “Palestine” carved out of Israel, host country Brazil declared on Thursday – in apparent disregard of the fact that both Israel and the government of Gaza, the terrorist organization Hamas, reject that proposal.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in an interview published Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, was a “capable and credible” entity that should be considered a contender to govern both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, united in a hypothetical state of “Palestine.”

The moment when the UK formally recognises a Palestinian state at the end of Israel’s war with Hamas might be drawing nearer, the Foreign Secretary David Cameron suggested Monday. The diplomatic move would come despite the fact doing so would reward Hamas for the terror attack of October 7.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly scolded Sunday by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after he twice refused in as many days to accept a two-state solution to the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

The U.S., Qatar, and Egypt have reportedly proposed a deal in which Hamas would free the remaining 136 Israeli hostages (or their bodies) in exchange for Israel withdrawing from Gaza and ending the war without destroying the terrorist organization.

During a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority refrained from displaying an American flag behind the U.S. official in a move that was seen as “humiliating” for the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he trusts Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas to “reform” the PA so that it can take over governing functions in Gaza at the end of Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists there.

The leadership of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in the West Bank, suggested creating a fusion government with the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (IJ) to take control of Gaza, a report on Sunday claimed.

Shay Germay, 19, an officer in Israel’s Border Police, was killed overnight Saturday into Sunday by a roadside bomb planted by terrorists near the West Bank city of Jenin.

Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Hamas terrorist group, published a pre-recorded speech on Tuesday in which he claimed Hamas is “open” to forming a unity government with the more moderate Palestinian Authority.

The West “stole” Christianity from the Palestinian people, according to an influential Palestinian author and leading columnist in Jordan

President Joe Biden is reportedly putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to transfer tax money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) that Israel collects on its behalf, but which it has suspended since the terror attacks of October 7.

Egypt, whose autocratic regime is supposedly a U.S. ally, has drafted a “peace” plan for Gaza that would save Hamas from destruction and reward it for terrorism by granting it a share in a postwar government with the Palestinian Authority.

NPR published a glum report on Thursday that found that support for Hamas, its militarized Qassam Brigades, and even the horrific atrocities Hamas terrorists perpetrated on October 7 is soaring among Palestinians in the West Bank.

A new poll shows more than four-fifths of Palestinian respondents from the West Bank agreed with the terror group’s decision to execute the barbaric attacks.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), like Hamas, seeks the utter demise of the State of Israel, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who asserted that the difference between the two groups is only a matter of methodology, as he vowed to never have the “hostile” PA control a post-Hamas Gaza. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stirred controversy in Israel by reportedly comparing the scale of death during the October 7 attack to the deaths that occurred as a result of Palestinian terrorism in the wake of the Oslo Peace Accords of 1993.