GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinians including a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, officials said, while Gaza rocket squads fired salvos into southern Israel, deepening the worst round of violence between the sides in more (...)
RAMALLAH: A rare public rift broke open Sunday in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic movement Hamas over a reconciliation deal that would require it to relinquish key areas of control in the Gaza Strip.
The deal, brokered by Qatar, was (...)
CAIRO: The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas took an important step toward reconciliation on Thursday, announcing plans for the Islamist group to join the umbrella group that has overseen two decades of on-and-off peace talks with (...)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians are resigned to defeat in their quest for full membership at the United Nations, officials say, and have started work on their backup plan — seeking an upgraded observer status that would give them access (...)
GAZA CITY: Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps.
Hamas, which had (...)
RAMALLAH: Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates.
Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal to Fatah, (...)
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates.
Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal (...)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is pressing ahead Tuesday with his diplomatic campaign to gain full U.N. membership, brushing aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto as the issue of Palestinian statehood (...)
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians on Tuesday said they would not give in to American pressure to drop their bid for statehood at the United Nations, taking a tough position ahead of a meeting with a senior U.S. delegation.
Two senior White (...)
A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank.
Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers said they had (...)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — After four years of turbulent rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant group Hamas is weighing a new strategy of not directly participating in future governments even if it wins elections — an approach aimed at (...)
RAMALLAH: After four years of turbulent rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant group Hamas is weighing a new strategy of not directly participating in future governments even if it wins elections — an approach aimed at avoiding isolation by (...)
RAMALLAH: The government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday postponed municipal elections by three months until October, saying it needs more time to ensure the vote can be held in both the West Bank and Gaza.
The decision was part (...)
RAMALLAH: There are growing signs that the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, could be on his way out, as the rival Fatah and Hamas movements prepare to sign a reconciliation deal this week and form a new "unity government."
An ouster of (...)
GAZA CITY: Thousands of Palestinians thronged major squares in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday to deliver an impassioned appeal to their leaders to end the long-running feud that has divided the Palestinian people between two rival (...)
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank promised to hold long-overdue general elections by September, a surprise move spurred by political unrest rocking the Arab world and embarrassing TV leaks about peace talks with Israel.
In (...)
RAMALLAH: Washington's Mideast peace efforts are in trouble as it is, but an additional complication is often overlooked: Should 76-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a heavy smoker prone to threats of resignation, leave office, there's (...)
NABLUS: A senior Israeli commander in the West Bank recalled that he used to carry a thick notebook full of names of wanted militants. Today, the list is so thin it "almost doesn't exist," he said.
And when Israel's military chief recently (...)
RAMALLAH: Fatah, the divided movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West s best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a comeback.
On Tuesday, Fatah is supposed to open its first convention in 20 years, hoping to clean (...)
RAMALLAH: Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Monday that he is swearing in a new government without his Hamas rivals by midweek, further dimming chances of a power-sharing deal.
Abbas also announced that his Fatah (...)
RAM: Palestinians may not have a state, but now they have a way to express their national pride - through football.
On Sunday, the national team was hosting an international match for the first time, in the West Bank s only regulation-size (...)
RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinian business people and professionals, led by an influential billionaire, launched a new political movement, reflecting growing disillusionment with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party.
Fatah dominated (...)
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia: Rival Palestinian leaders began crucial talks in this holy city Wednesday, vowing to reach a power-sharing agreement to avert civil war between them, a key step toward resuming the peace process with (...)