Palestinian political parties began registering candidates for municipal elections on Wednesday, the first step in years toward a democratic vote but one that threatens to re-inflame tensions between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements.
Egypt’s Attorney-General has ordered an inquiry into two prominent politicians suspected of spying for Hezbollah.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian children performed in a play depicting “Zionist jailers” executing “heroic prisoners” as part of a closing ceremony for summer camps organized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian prisoner authority said Monday that Israel has agreed to hand over for burial the bodies of Palestinian terrorists killed while carrying out recent attacks on Israelis.
The United Nations on Saturday said a Gaza employee had diverted tonnes of rubble on instructions from the Palestinian Authority (PA) days after Israel charged him with aiding Islamist movement Hamas.
Despite pledges early in the primary season to maintain neutrality in dealings with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Donald Trump has since emphasized his pro-Israel bona fides and hinted at a major deviation from policies supported by presidents of both parties since the 1967 Six Day War, including the two-state solution, Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria, and America’s embassy in Israel.
TEL AVIV – Hamas illegally siphoned off tens of millions of dollars of aid money from the U.S. and Europe to build terror tunnels and fund weapons purchases, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.
Contents: Iran furious at Palestinian meeting with Iran opposition group; Maryam Rajavi: Leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO); Negative interest rates creating increased anxiety
A retired Saudi general who visited Israel last week and met Israeli officials as head of a delegation of academics and businessmen, denied Tuesday that the trip was part of efforts to normalize ties between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
TEL AVIV – Israel orchestrated Muslim infighting between Sunnis and Shiites in order to blow up both groups, or so claims a new cartoon published by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.
Earth movers dig into sand dunes on land where once Jewish settlements stood – prime real estate that the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas group hopes will ease its worsening financial crisis.
TEL AVIV – In the latest act of farce in the Palestinian Authority’s theater of the absurd, the PA’s chief peace negotiator slammed Israel over the death of a Hamas terrorist responsible for murdering a prominent rabbi at the beginning of the month.
Contents: Arab League in chaos as it fails to address Arab existential threats; ASEAN in chaos as it fails to address South China Sea threats; France’s François Hollande declares war on ISIS after terror attack kills priest; Turkey fears that Gulen will flee the United States
Hamas has announced that it will field a full list of candidates in Palestinian local and municipal elections scheduled for October, in an apparent surprise for the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Hamas is likely to win the Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for October, Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials fear.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas has uploaded a promotional video for a military training summer camp that promises to make “strong and powerful heroes” out of Palestinian teenagers willing to wage “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”
Dozens of Palestinians jailed by Israel are refusing food in support of an inmate on hunger strike for 39 days over his detention without trial, the Palestinian Authority said Saturday.
DOHA – Qatar said it would give $30 million to help pay the salaries of thousands of Gaza Strip public sector Hamas workers left without a full wage package since 2013.
JAFFA, Israel – The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday raided an arms cache near Nablus, in the West Bank, arresting 13 suspects in trade and illegal possession of firearms, including the head of security at the city’s Al Najjah University.
Qatar said on Thursday it would give $30 million to help pay the salaries of thousands of Gaza Strip public sector workers left without a full wage package since 2013.
JERUSALEM – Ignoring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request not to honor terrorists, the Palestinian Authority erected a monument on Sunday in honor of the mastermind behind the 1976 “refrigerator bombing” in Jerusalem, with Palestinian officials expressing their hope that it will inspire young minds to continue following the path of “legendary martyrs.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority leaders, jockeying for power, have started arming loyalist groups as President Mahmoud Abbas is estimated to step down at some point in the near future, a Palestinian security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the Palestinian Authority this week, official Palestinian press clamored to praise those “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were tied up carrying out terror attacks against Israelis but who will nonetheless merit “Paradise.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not made a significant move to signal whom he wants to succeed him as the head of the PA, the PLO or Fatah.
Israel is halting mail service to the Gaza Strip “in light of multiple attempts to smuggle banned items… used for terrorism against Israel,” Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in occupied territories, posted on Facebook on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – A Canadian teacher is being investigated after speaking at a rally urging Palestinians to fight back against Israel and praising terrorists, CBC News reported.
Thirteen Gazans have been arrested in Turkey over the last month on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State organization, jihadi sources and the relative of one of the suspects in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – America is responsible for any bombs that kill Muslims in Muslim countries, a Palestinian preacher claimed in his sermon on Friday at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
TEL AVIV — The family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli teenager asleep in her bed will receive $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for “martyrs,” prompting Israel to deduct the funds from its tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly offered to host direct talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as part of Cairo’s fresh efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
An advertisement for a German television documentary which will deal with how children in the Palestinian Authority are taught to hate and kill has caused an uproar for claiming that Israeli children are also taught to hate and kill Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – A Belgian Jewish newspaper is demanding that European leaders condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for spreading the libel that rabbis in Israel urged Jews to poison Palestinian water, JTA reported.
TEL AVIV – A cartoon on a Fatah-owned Palestinian TV station recently aired in honor of Ramadan features Jews fighting alongside the devil against Muslims and the prophet Muhammad.
Taysir Kubaa, deputy head of the Palestinian National Council, on Thursday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to abandon the path of negotiations with Israel which, he said, does not lead to success for the Palestinians.
JERUSALEM – Early Islamic teachings show that all Jews are liars, a Palestinian university professor and television host recently said on official PA TV.
TEL AVIV – The families of teenage Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons were invited to Jerusalem over the weekend for a special Iftar dinner, the traditional break-fast meal for the Muslim festival of Ramadan, Ynet news reported.
JERUSALEM – Officials from both the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah party held rallies to celebrate the release of a terrorist involved in one of Israel’s most heinous murders – that of Israeli teenager Ofir Rahum, who was killed in 2001 after being lured to the West Bank by a female terrorist he met and fell in love with online.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he consulted with the Palestinian Authority and with Hamas before moving forward with a reconciliation deal with Israel, signed last week.
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away, the U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace warned on Sunday, after both sides shrugged off criticism by international mediators.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s security services foiled a large-scale terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Friday, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
