DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel attends a meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers and heads of intelligence at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 2018. (Khaled Elfiqi/Pool photo via AP)

August 16, 2018, 8:20 am

Head of Egyptian intelligence visits Israel to discuss Gaza truce

Arabic daily Al-Hayat says Major General Abbas Kamel will meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Thursday

By TOI staff

Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh (C) argues with police during an event in East Jerusalem hosted by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror groups on June 18, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

June 19, 2018, 11:52 am

Minister urges probe of Arab MK for attending event held by terror groups

Gilad Erdan brands Ayman Odeh an ‘enemy of the state’ after the Joint List party leader took part in PFLP and DFLP conference in Jerusalem that police closed down

By TOI staff

Israeli security forces and forensics are seen at the site where a Palestinian rammed a car into a group of Israeli soldiers near Mevo Dotan in the north of the West Bank on March 16, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

March 17, 2018, 1:23 am

Palestinian terror groups praise car-ramming attack that kills two soldiers

Factions say terror attack a response to ‘Zionist crimes’ and US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel

By Khaled Abu Toameh

File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

February 11, 2018, 12:35 am

Palestinians cheer downing of F-16, warn Israel not to attack Gaza

Military wing of Hamas announces it’s ‘raising the state of alert’ along the Gaza border in wake of the tensions in northern Israel

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Illustrative: IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

January 9, 2018, 1:55 pm

IDF forces conduct manhunt for suspected Palestinian shooters near Nablus

Israeli father of five, a resident of the Gilad Farm outpost in the northern West Bank, reportedly shot from passing car on Route 60

By TOI staff

A monument to 'martyr' Khaled Nazzal in a Jenin square named after him. Nazzal was the mastermind of the 1974 Maalot massacre in which Palestinian terrorists murdered 22 schoolchildren and 4 adults. (Palestinian Media Watch)

July 2, 2017, 6:09 pm

Palestinians re-erect Jenin terrorist memorial razed by IDF

Democratic Front activists restore stone structure praising Khaled Nazzal, who planned a 1974 attack that killed 26 people, mostly children

By Dov Lieber

A marquee tent where the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine planned to hold an illegal rally supporting terror, February 21, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

February 21, 2017, 6:12 pm

Police prevent Jerusalem terror group rally, arrest 6

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine planned show of force to mark release of member from prison

By Stuart Winer

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on April 13, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ POOL / SERGEI ILNITSKY)

September 8, 2016, 11:56 am

Ramallah laughs off report Abbas was KBG agent, as Hamas keeps mum

PA leader’s spokesperson says allegation was made because Jerusalem ‘is troubled by [Palestinians’] strategic relationship with Russia’

By Dov Lieber

Mahmoud Abbas in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 31, 1975, during a meeting to discuss the opening of a Palestine Liberation Organization office on the island. (AP Photo)

September 7, 2016, 10:43 pm

Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was working for Soviets in Damascus in 1980s while Putin’s current Mideast envoy was stationed there

By Tamar Pileggi

Akram Rajoub, who said on April 26, 2016, that he had been fired from the post of governor of Nablus by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Screenshot: YouTube)

April 27, 2016, 1:16 pm

Abbas sacks Nablus governor, reportedly over public criticism

Some Palestinian outlets also speculate that Akram Rajoub was fired for walking out of Samaritan Passover Seder after settlers arrived

By Dov Lieber

Azhar Abu Srour, mother of 19-year-old Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour (portrait), who carried out an April 18, 2016, bomb attack on a bus in Jerusalem, mourns with family members at al-Ayda refugee camp on April 22, 2016. (AFP/Musa al Shaer)

April 25, 2016, 1:53 pm

For mother of Hamas bus bomber, son’s attack was ‘self-defense’

Abed al-Hamid Abu Srour has just become the first suicide bomber in years. While others in the local refugee camp celebrate and Hamas hails its new martyr, his parents veer from bitterness to denial to blaming Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian supporters of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) chant slogans during a demonstration against Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 19, 2014. Photo By Issam Rimawi/Flash 90.

April 14, 2016, 8:49 pm

For second time this week, Abbas cuts funding to rival party

The PA president and Fatah leader halts money to DFLP, days after similar move with PFLP; seen as bid to tighten grip on power

By Dov Lieber

Palestinian children hold posters outside an UNRWA school in Gaza during a protest on August 11, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

July 26, 2015, 11:58 pm

Gazans protest cutbacks in UN services

UN agency for Palestinian refugees forced to reduce aid to Gaza as it struggles to overcome $100-million debt

By TOI staff and AFP

Illustrative photo of Palestinians playing soccer while rallying for hunger-striking prisoners outside Ofer Prison in the West Bank, on June 11, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

June 26, 2015, 4:27 am

Palestinians name soccer teams after terrorists

Month after FIFA row, squads honoring killers of numerous Israeli civilians to compete in Ramadan youth tournament

By TOI staff

Illustrative photo of masked Palestinian gunmen (Wissam Nassar/Flash 90)

February 23, 2014, 9:26 am

Armed Palestinian activists attend West Bank celebration

Masked men fire shots in air at Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s anniversary event in Abu Dis

By Spencer Ho