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Fatah-Hamas reconciliation
A Palestinian man and his daughter walk past a graffiti reading in Arabic 'Division' in Gaza City, on September 17, 2017, after Hamas announced it had agreed to steps toward resolving a decade-long split with the Fatah movement and was ready to hold elections. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
September 22, 2017, 9:17 am
Squeezed on all sides, Hamas bids for reconciliation
Gaza's terrorist rulers are rebuilding bridges with Iran, turning to Egypt for help, and moving to warm ties with their West Bank rivals
By AFP
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory gesture upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing, from Egypt after reconciliation talks with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 19, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
September 20, 2017, 4:27 am
Hamas invites Abbas to resume control of Gaza
Terror group head says he will dismantle committee that had been governing Gaza in bid to show seriousness of rapprochement effort
By Agencies
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP/Jewel SAMAD)
September 20, 2017, 2:58 am
Egypt’s Sissi makes impromptu plea at UN for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Breaking from prepared remarks, president says sides need to take advantage of opportunity that 'may not be repeated'
By Agencies and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, right, in New York on September 19, 2017 (Avi Ohayun)
September 19, 2017, 11:59 am
Egyptian leader Sissi is showing his mettle by posing with Netanyahu
But as the Cairo leadership builds ties with Israel and fosters Palestinian unity, it is also sidelining Abbas
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, right, raise their linked arms as they move through the crowd at a special session of parliament in Gaza City, March 17, 2007. (AP/Hatem Moussa/File)
September 18, 2017, 9:23 pm
Abbas talks reconciliation with Hamas leader, but is mum on ending sanctions
Hamas says PA must resume its responsibilities in Gaza immediately, now that it's dissolved its own governing body in the Strip
By Dov Lieber
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (center), arrives at the Palestinian side of the Beit Hanoun border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, October 9, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
September 18, 2017, 5:52 pm
PA premier plans Gaza visit after Hamas accepts reconciliation terms
Rami Hamdallah to travel to Strip to reassert Palestinian Authority control over ministries, adviser to Abbas says
By AFP
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves to citizens during his visit to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, October 9, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 26, 2017, 9:48 pm
PA shelves plan to fire 6,000 Gaza civil servants
Move had raised fears of a collapse of the Strip's health and education services
By AFP
Palestinian supporters of dismissed senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan shout slogans during a protest in Gaza City on December 18, 2014 (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
August 17, 2017, 7:55 pm
UAE, other countries pledge $15 million per month to Gaza
Deal announced as Hamas delegation returns from Cairo; funds to be under Egypt's supervision
By Dov Lieber
Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends the opening of a new mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
August 16, 2017, 9:28 pm
Hamas warns it will ‘crush’ Israel in future war
But hawkish Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, in rare meeting with journalists, says his group is currently uninterested in conflict
By Dov Lieber
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jared Kushner (left) and Jason Greenblatt (second right) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)
August 13, 2017, 10:58 pm
The terrible timing of the newest American peace delegation
Kushner, Greenblatt and Powell are coming to 'restart the peace process' -- even as the leaders of all sides face unprecedented crises of political legitimacy
By Avi Issacharoff
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) in Cairo, Egypt, on July 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Egyptian Presidency)
August 6, 2017, 8:48 pm
Hamas said to accept Egyptian plan for Palestinian unity, Fatah holding out
Rival factions now reportedly presenting each other with new counter-offers
By Dov Lieber
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 25, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
August 6, 2017, 2:07 am
Abbas vows to keep up financial pressure on Hamas
Palestinian leader blasts Gaza's rulers for lighting up tunnels despite power shortage, accuses US of trying to block reconciliation
By TOI staff and AP
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 25, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
July 23, 2017, 2:06 pm
Security cabinet meets over Temple Mount tensions, violence and terror attack
Wife of Elad Salomon says husband ‘fought back,’ saving their children; Salomon family members laid to rest in Modi'in funerals; 10 wounded in Qalandiya clashes
By TOI staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi on July 6, 2017, at the Carthage Palace, near Tunis. ( AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID)
July 9, 2017, 9:14 pm
Abbas said to cut salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers
Deputy speaker calls measure a ‘declaration of war’ on Palestinian Legislative Council; Abbas meets Sissi, threatens 'economic sanctions'
By Dov Lieber
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)
July 8, 2017, 8:28 pm
Dahlan’s grand plans for Gaza’s revival threaten to sideline Abbas
PA chief fumes at Cairo's apparent support for his rival's talks with Hamas, which have spoiled Abbas's efforts to pressure terror group into submission
By Avi Issacharoff
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