In this Feb 14, 2022 file photo, Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli forces demolished part of the residence in the village of Silat al-Harithiya near the flashpoint town of Jenin in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestine on Thursday called for international intervention to stop the expansion of Israeli settlements […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye speaks during a joint press conference with Libya's interim prime minister in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Feb 14, 2022. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye said Monday that Israel's decision to withhold 600 million shekels ($176 million) in tax revenues it has collected for […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis attend a news conference at Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, capital of Romania, July 19, 2022. (CHRISTIAN CRISTEL/XINHUA) BUCHAREST – Visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called on Israel to cease "unilateral action that undermines the two-state solution." Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that […]
The flag of Palestine flutters on a rooftop across from the newly-built Israeli settler outpost in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on June 18, 2021, following a protest against Israeli settlements. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) BERLIN – Nine European Union states said on Tuesday they would continue working […]
This combo photo shows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. (PHOTOS / AP) JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz held a rare meeting in the occupied West Bank in an effort to calm tensions and coordinate on security days before US President Joe Biden's […]
A handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office on June 11, 2022, shows President Mahmud Abbas (right) meeting with Special Assistant to the US President and Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa Barbara Leaf at the presidency headquarters in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. (THAER GHANAIM […]
Israeli police enter the Al-Aqsa mosque compound where they clashed with Palestinian protesters following early morning prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, April 22, 2022. (MAHMOUD ILLEAN / AP) RAMALLAH – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called for an end to the violent escalation between the Israelis and the Palestinians and urged the two sides […]
Mourners carry the body of Ghofran Warasnah, killed by Israeli security forces after she approached a soldier with a knife, during her funeral at Al-Aroub refugee camp north the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 1, 2022. (HAZEM BADER / AFP) HEBRON, West Bank – A knife-wielding Palestinian woman threatened an Israeli soldier in […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye speaks during a joint press conference with Libya's interim prime minister in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Feb 14, 2022. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Tuesday called on the European Union to pressure Israel to stop its violations against the Palestinians […]
This picture shows a general view of the West Bank town of Jenin on April 12, 2022. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) Israel’s new rules to tighten foreigners’ visits to the West Bank areas that it occupies could threaten the sustenance of some 2 million people who need humanitarian assistance, experts said. The new rules target […]
Double standards across media, politics highlight 'unbalanced' order, experts say Israeli army forces and Palestinian protesters clash near the West Bank city of Nablus, April 13, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) With the latest skirmishes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, analysts say the international community's response to the plight of the Palestinians, when compared […]
Palestinian protesters retreat amid tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against Jewish settlements and in support of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, on the main street of Beita village in the occupied West Bank, on April 15, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) JERUSALEM – At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh speaks during a joint press conference with Libya's interim prime minister in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Feb 14, 2022. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) RAMALLAH/UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday told the Palestinian cabinet that the Israeli court's decision on the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a […]
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki gestures during a press conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) on Feb 26, 2020 at the UN Office in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Monday said the European Union was still withholding its financial aid from the treasury of […]
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during a clash in the occupied West Bank as troops prepared to demolish the home of a man accused of killing an Israeli, the Palestinian Health Ministry and witnesses said on Monday. The fighting erupted late on Sunday in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, home to a […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during an emergency meeting of the Fatah Central Committee and the PLO Executive Committee in the occupied West Bank City of Ramallah, on May 12, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the need for reform in the Palestinian Authority in a phone […]
Israeli soldiers stand on guard by the fence along the border with the Gaza Strip near Moshav Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel on Dec 7, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) JERUSALEM – An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the military said, after a rare visit to Israel […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during an emergency meeting of the Fatah Central Committee and the PLO Executive Committee in the occupied West Bank City of Ramallah, on May 12, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday night met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to discuss how to […]
File photo of Palestinian flag. (PHOTO / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestinian and US officials on Tuesday held the first senior-level economic dialogue in five years, during which the two sides recognized the importance of restoring political and economic ties. Officials from the Palestinian Authority and the United States met virtually to renew the US-Palestinian economic dialogue, […]
A Palestinian woman holds a baby as she casts her vote at a polling station during municipal elections, in the West Bank village of Kifl Haris, Dec 11, 2021. (MAJDI MOHAMMED / AP) RAMALLAH/GAZA – The Palestinians on Saturday held the municipal elections in the West Bank despite the opposition of the Islamic Resistance Movement […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a memorial service at the Mount Herzel military cemetery in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021, commemorating soldiers who died in the 2014 Gaza war. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) JERUSALEM – An Israeli state planning committee on Monday delayed granting further approval of a major settlement project […]
A member of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, takes part in a parade in Gaza City on Nov 14, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestine on Saturday rejected Britain's decision to designate the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) as a terrorist group, calling it an unjustified attack on […]
In this Sept 18, 2019 photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye speaks in an exclusive interview with Xinhua in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (PHOTO / XINHUA) RAMALLAH – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday called on the US Congress to recognize an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem […]
In this photo taken from video, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Sept 24, 2021, at UN headquarters. (PHOTO / AP) RAMALLAH – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday told a US official that he is ready to go for a peace […]
Palestinian demonstrator burns tires at the entrance of the village of Burqin, west of Jenin, in the Israeli occupied West Bank on September 26, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israel's military said Sunday that two soldiers were seriously injured in shootouts with Palestinian gunmen during a West Bank raid in which Israeli forces […]
This combination of pictures created on Aug 30, 2021 shows (left to right) Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas during a diplomatic meeting in Ramallah in a handout photo provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) on Aug 1, 2021; and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz giving a press conference at his party's office in the […]
Palestinian supporters of Fatah rally in support of president Mahmud Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 10, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) RAMALLAH – Israel and Palestine discussed steps of trust-building for improving security and economy in the region, Israeli and Palestinian media reported on Tuesday. On Monday night, Palestinian […]
A member of Israeli security forces runs amid clashes with Palestinian protesters at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday amid growing anger over the potential eviction of […]
A man uses his phone to film a televised speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas regarding the upcoming Palestinian elections at a coffee shop in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on April 29, 2021. (HAZEM BADER / AFP) JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday postponed planned parliamentary elections amid […]
EU representative in the Palestinian Territories Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff speaks to journalists in front of the headquarters of the Palestinian Election Commission, in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 30, 2021. Palestinian legislative polls have been called for May 22 and a presidential vote on July 31, the first Palestinian […]