December 29, 2014
7:20 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas: Palestinian statehood bid to go to UN this evening

A vote on the resolution could be delayed until next year as the text is translated into different languages

By Times of Israel staff and Elhanan Miller

December 29, 2014
5:29 pm

Palestinian AuthorityPrime Minister Rami Hamdallah, center, arrives at the Palestinian side of the Beit Hanoun border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Members of the new Palestinian unity government assembled in Gaza on Thursday for their first Cabinet session in the war-battered territory - a largely symbolic meeting meant to mark the end of absolute Hamas control of the coastal strip. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

PA ministers arrive in Gaza to kickstart reconstruction

Ramallah officials visit Hamas-run Strip, estimate rehabilitation will cost $4 billion

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

December 29, 2014
8:32 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the latter's residence in Amman on November 13, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/POOL/Nicholas Kamm)

Kerry said to hint at sanctions if Palestinians push UN bid

Abbas phones US secretary of state to inform him Ramallah submitting amended resolution Monday despite pressure to delay

By Marissa Newman

December 27, 2014
10:08 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Senator Lindsey Graham at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 27, 2014. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

US senator Graham threatens to defund UN over Palestine bid

Netanyahu tells visiting Republican lawmaker that Israel will stand firm against effort to impose statehood terms

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

December 26, 2014
7:25 pm

Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator, during a news conference in Ramallah in the West Bank on January 2, 2012. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/ FLASH90)

Erekat: UN vote on Palestinian statehood by Monday

Top PA official, in interview with Arab media, makes extreme comparison between Islamic State’s al-Baghdadi and Netanyahu

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

December 25, 2014
5:15 am

People gather to watch Christmas celebrations in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity as Christians gather for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Thousands flock to Bethlehem for Christmas celebrations

Due to Gaza war and unrest, tourist attendance down from previous years; Abbas calls for end to ‘extremism and terror’

By Daniel Estrin

December 25, 2014
1:27 am

Chile's Palestino soccer team and their jerseys, which replace the numeral 1 with an outline of the entirety of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. (photo credit: Facebook/Club Deportivo Palestino)

Abbas congratulates Chile’s ‘Palestino’ soccer team

PA president hails club, whose jersey boasts a map representing Palestine, for qualifying for South American regional cup

By JTA

December 23, 2014
7:15 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after addressing the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Abbas’s UN gambit: Capricious and possibly self-defeating

With resolution sure to be vetoed in current form, European diplomat calls it ‘a classic they-never-miss-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity situation’

By Raphael Ahren

December 23, 2014
6:39 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 23, 2014, in Algiers. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE)

Abbas: I’ll cut ties with Israel if UN move fails

PA president says if statehood bid does not pass Security Council, Palestinians ‘will no longer deal’ with Jerusalem

By AFP

December 19, 2014
5:18 pm

On April 22, 2014 Hamas and Fatah leaders met in Gaza for talks on Palestinian reconciliation. An agreement was signed the next day. Pictured left to right: Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmed, head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh, and deputy speaker of the Palestinian Parliament Ahmed Bahar (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Palestinian reconciliation is dead; Gaza rehabilitation might be too

Abbas, under criticism from multiple quarters, looks to the UN to win back public support

By Avi Issacharoff

December 18, 2014
10:46 pm

Palestinian supporters of dismissed senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan shout slogans during a protest in Gaza City on December 18, 2014 (Photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Gazans rally for ex-strongman as corruption trial opens

Thousands of supporters of exiled Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan protest after PA sacks members of the security forces who back him

By AFP

December 18, 2014
6:55 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference held in Jerusalem, December 17, 2014. (Emil Salman/POOL/FLASH90)

Ramallah’s UN moves will lead to Hamas takeover, PM warns

Day after Palestinian statehood bid submitted to Security Council, Netanyahu vows to rebuff ‘unilateral diktats’

By Times of Israel staff and Elhanan Miller

December 18, 2014
3:19 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 14, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Abbas favors peace conference idea, limits talks to a year

Palestinians may still sever security ties with Israel, says PA foreign minister, admits UN resolution was submitted hastily due to popular pressure

By Elhanan Miller

December 18, 2014
8:46 am

Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz addresses the seventh Annual INSS conference in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Palestinian UN bid is an ‘act of war,’ minister charges

Yuval Steinitz says Israel may have to mull dismantling PA after draft statehood resolution submitted to Security Council

By Ricky Ben-David

December 18, 2014
12:28 am

Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour addressing journalists after a UN Security Council meeting, May 2014. (photo credit: UN/Devra Berkowitz)

Palestinians submit UN statehood resolution, but don’t seek quick vote

Draft sets 1-year deadline for a deal, demands Israeli West Bank withdrawal by end of 2017; Palestinians say text not final

By AFP, AP and Times of Israel staff

Topic: Mahmoud Abbas