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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by his two sons Yasser (L) and Tarek (R), gives a short statement before leaving a hospital near Ramallah in the West Bank on May 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
May 17, 2026, 4:39 pm
Early results in Fatah leadership vote show Abbas’s son, intelligence chief elected
Millionaire Yasser Abbas expected to get seat on party’s powerful Central Committee, as will Zakaria Zubeidi, ex-head of Fatah terror group who was behind dozens of attacks
By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd L) chairs the eighth Fatah conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 14, 2026. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
May 16, 2026, 1:34 am
Backers of Abbas rival excluded from Fatah confab, despite Egypt’s push for inclusivity
After PA president gave non-committal response to visiting Egyptian official, members of Dahlan-led faction left out of major gathering where elections held for party’s top panels
By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd L) chairs the eighth Fatah conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 14, 2026. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
May 14, 2026, 6:31 pm
Fatah gathers for first election in decade, as PA’s Abbas pledges to continue reforms
3-day confab climaxes with vote for 18-member committee expected to play key role in post-Abbas era; PA president pans Israeli withholding of Ramallah’s funds
By AFP, Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid
Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Fatah's Central Committee and delegation, speaks during a press conference at the end of two days of closed-door talks attended by representatives of 13 leading political parties held in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
June 21, 2022, 7:07 pm
Little hope for change in Ramallah as Israel switches out governments again
Senior PLO official says Netanyahu, Bennett, Lapid not significantly different for Palestinians, slams Mansour Abbas for joining ‘extremist’ coalition
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinian Central Election Commission workers register citizens in preparation for elections, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 22, 2021, 11:38 pm
Hamas rejects Palestinian Authority’s call for municipal elections
Islamist terror group plans to boycott local Palestinian vote unless presidential, legislative elections also held; PA president indefinitely delayed national vote in April
By Aaron Boxerman
Nasser al-Kidwa in 2012 (photo credit: AP)
March 11, 2021, 3:51 pm
Abbas ousts Yasser Arafat’s nephew from Fatah as election race heats up
Senior official Nasser al-Qidwa has called for ‘radical change’ in the Palestinian Authority, plans to challenge the main Fatah slate in the upcoming legislative elections
By Aaron Boxerman
Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub speaking to Saudi-owned Al-Hadath news channel (Screenshot: Al-Hadath)
February 13, 2019, 6:29 pm
Top Fatah official claims Israel running own ‘Auschwitz’ in Palestinian cities
Jibril Rajoub makes comment after being asked about US-Polish hosted conference in Warsaw; PA daily calls Trump’s upcoming peace plan ‘a Holocaust plan’
By ToI Staff
US-based Palestinian billionaire Adnan Mjalli (Courtesy/Facebook)
January 24, 2019, 5:09 am
Bomb reportedly blows up $500,000 Mercedes of billionaire seen as Abbas rival
TV report says N. Carolina-based pharma tycoon Adnan Mjalli was not in the car at the time; move seen as a warning to him not to enter race to succeed elderly Palestinian leader
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 (AP/Dita Alangkara)
February 18, 2018, 1:35 am
Palestinians denounce PA over meetings with Israeli officials
Opposition factions say talks between counterpart ministers and other government representatives violate PLO, Fatah decisions to ‘disengage’ from Israel
By Khaled Abu Toameh
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 23, 2017. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)
May 29, 2017, 8:12 pm
Abbas appoints jailed Israeli Arab terrorist to Fatah Central Committee
Karim Younes is serving a 40-year sentence for the kidnapping and killing of an IDF soldier
By Stuart Winer
Protesters support Palestinian prisoners who were on a hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on May 4, 2017. (Flash90)
May 11, 2017, 12:33 pm
We saved the life of Hamas’s Gaza leader, says Israel’s ex-prison chief, dismissing strikers’ complaints
Orit Adato, who handled huge rise in inmate population during Second Intifada, says terrorist convicts get better conditions here than almost anywhere else
By Dov Lieber
Palestinians protest in solidarity with security prisoners on a hunger strike in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on April 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Musa Al Shaer)
May 4, 2017, 10:17 pm
In the Palestinian hunger strike, politics is only half the story
Marwan Barghouti may win big from the mass fast, but an Israeli criminologist argues Israel could benefit from giving at least one of his demands consideration
By Dov Lieber
A man holds a photo of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti calling for his release during a rally supporting those detained in Israeli jails after hundreds of prisoners launched a hunger strike, in the West Bank town of Hebron on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
April 18, 2017, 6:41 am
Marwan Barghouti’s great gamble
Sentenced by an Israeli civilian court to five life terms for murder, the sidelined Fatah leader’s dramatic mass hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners is a risky bid for political relevance
By Avi Issacharoff
Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, is escorted by Israeli police into Jerusalem's Magistrate Court to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against Palestinian leaders, in January 2012. (Flash90)
April 5, 2017, 6:05 am
With prison strike, Barghouti hopes to prove Palestinian street is still his
Politically isolated by Ramallah, jailed Palestinian leader looks to send a message that he can still rally the people and make headaches for both Abbas and Israel
By Avi Issacharoff
Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)
April 4, 2017, 9:12 am
Jailed Fatah terrorist organizes hunger strikes, protests
In attempted power play, influential Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti demands better conditions for security prisoners
By Avi Issacharoff
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