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TEL AVIV – Following the carnage in Brussels, Palestinian Authority Security Forces Spokesman said that the U.S. and Europe had created international terror and were therefore responsible for attacks on Western nations, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

The Times of Israel reports: Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Gadi Eisenkot (pictured) said a recent covert Israeli offer to end IDF operations in parts of the West Bank was part of an effort to bolster security measures

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Science, Technology, and Space Minister Ofir Akunis on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being the worst inciter against Israel over the past six months of violence, the Times of Israel reported. “The [Palestinian] Authority has

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian schoolteachers agreed to end a month-long strike on Saturday, heeding a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to go back to work despite only some of their demands being met, the teachers’ union said. More

TEL AVIV – Israeli opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog, head of the leftist Labor party, the largest faction in the Zionist Union party, spoke out against the radical left on Saturday, Arutz 7 reported. “The public is tired of hearing

The Times of Israel reports: Israel is routinely left off maps, Israeli cities are said to be in Palestine, martyrdom is celebrated, and there is not a single mention of the Holocaust in more than 70 official Palestinian Authority textbooks,

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV channel broadcast an Islamic cleric claiming that if fish fight among themselves, the Jews are behind it. He added, “As long as the Jews are causing devastating corruption, humanity will never live in comfort,” Palestinian Media Watch reported.

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JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority will oppose an EU-brokered proposal to create a maritime route between Gaza and Cyprus, a PA official has said. Azzam Elahmad, head of the Fatah negotiating team with Hamas, said that the PA ruled out a proposal

The Times of Israel reports: A children’s playground at the West Bank settlement of Beit El was hit by sniper fire Saturday night. No one was injured in the attack. According to Channel 10 television, the gunfire is believed to

The Jerusalem Post reports: Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti (pictured) intends to run in the next Palestinian Authority presidential election when and if they take place, his wife, Fadwa Barghouti, announced on Wednesday. Barghouti  told a Hamas-affiliated online newspaper that it

The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian officials told local media on Saturday that Israel will soon free Mohammad al-Qiq, the journalist who has been on a hunger strike since being placed in administrative detention three months ago for alleged Hamas-linked activities. An

Israel’s i24 News reports: Two Israelis were injured in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus gate by the Old City on Friday. The injured were reportedly border police and were lightly wounded by stab wounds to the upper body. A Palestinian

JAFFA, Israel – Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan (pictured) has condemned the Palestinian Authority for continuing its security cooperation with Israel after a top member of the movement was arrested by the Israeli army. Dahlan publicly rebuked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,

The Times of Israel reports: In a striking rejection of relentless international efforts to broker new talks, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Monday that the Palestinians will “never” return to direct negotiations with Israel. Peace talks collapsed in

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority called for international protection on Sunday, claiming that the IDF deliberately killed three teenage Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank. An Israeli official responded by stating “the problem is the Palestinian Authority, which continues

The Times of Israel reports: Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday called for Israel to start taking steps toward annexing parts of the West Bank while helping the Palestinian Authority establish “autonomy on steroids” in other parts of the territory.

The Times of Israel reports: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power reiterated Saturday her country’s commitment to advancing a two-state solution as well as a peaceful resolution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as she arrived in Israel for a

The Times of Israel reports: The UN’s human rights rapporteur in the Palestinian territories accused Israeli security forces of using excessive force against Palestinians, and called on Israel to investigate and prosecute perpetrators, Reuters reported. “The upsurge in violence is

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi man sentenced to four year’s imprisonment on terror charges surprised authorities with the copious amounts of pornography found on his personal computer alongside bomb-making instructions.

TEL AVIV – Following the Netherlands House of Representatives’ election of a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim woman as speaker, a columnist for the Palestinian Authority newspaper blamed Arab regimes’ “swing towards violence and terrorism” on the lack of democratic electoral systems, and

The Jerusalem Post reports: A senior Palestinian official has suggested that the West ignores the Palestinians when they maintain security, rhetorically asking if they have to resort to “hijacking planes” and “destroying airports” to garner Western support for the Palestinian

Arutz Sheva reports: The head of the Israeli Fund for UNICEF (The UN Children’s Fund) has condemned the culture of incitement which encourages children to carry out terrorist attacks, as “child abuse.” Jonny Cline, Executive Director of UNICEF’s Israeli Fund, made

The Jerusalem Post reports: RIO DE JANEIRO – A new building housing the first Palestinian Authority embassy in the Western Hemisphere was inaugurated in Brasilia. The PA’s envoy to Brazil, Ibrahim Alzeben, led Wednesday’s event, which was attended by leftwing Brazilian government

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TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority slammed Israel’s decision to expand the prayer section of the Western Wall to accommodate egalitarian services, with the claim that the “Jews have no connection to it whatsoever.” The PA further claimed that the

JAFFA, Israel – Gaza Islamists held a press conference on Saturday urging members of the Palestinian Authority security forces to follow in the footsteps of a Palestinian policeman who carried out a shooting attack against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank earlier that

Hamas leaders have met Iranian officials in a continuing bid to upgrade the Islamic Republic’s financial support for Gaza’s Islamist rulers, a top source in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Billions of dollars in aid money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) are being used to fund terrorism against Israel, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister claimed in an oped for The Wall Street Journal on Monday.  “Large amounts

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is sponsoring training for Fatah and PLO loyalists in Lebanon to prevent the fall of Palestinian refugee camps into the hands of the Islamic State, a top Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem. The

The Jerusalem Post reports: In the past few weeks, pro-Palestinian activists have been waging an international campaign for the release of Ahmad Manasrah, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who stabbed two Israelis in a Jerusalem suburb in October. Manasrah carried out the

TEL AVIV – An official from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party claimed that Hitler was not morally corrupt, he was daring, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.  After Fatah leader and Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi made his remarks on

JAFFA, Israel – During the 10 years since Hamas’ election victory, unemployment in the Gaza Strip has reached 45 per cent, and the number of residents relying on foreign aid has hit 80 per cent, A Sharq al Awsat newspaper reported on

TEL AVIV – Top Palestinian security officers and a number of Fatah leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas, have been at odds recently over the latter’s wish to step up the recent wave of Palestinian terror attacks, a senior Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

A senior aide for the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was arrested by PA security forces on suspicion of spying for Israel. In an interview about the arrest, Erekat said Netanyahu has destroyed the Arab’s “culture of peace.” Erekat

The Times of Israel reports: Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan canceled a cultural event in East Jerusalem on Sunday, when he discovered the Palestinian Authority was behind it, his office announced. Erdan, however, discovered that a Palestinian Authority representative was