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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video at United Nations headquarters, September 25, 2025. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)
October 9, 2025, 8:42 pm
Bucking US blueprint, Palestinian Authority still seeks major role in post-war Gaza
PA officials tout institutional reforms in bid to join post-war reconstruction and governance; PM says Ramallah, Cairo planning new Gaza police force, with 5,500 selected to train
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
May 3, 2025, 5:51 am
PA leader Abbas: ‘Hamas-affiliated gangs primarily responsible’ for Gaza aid looting
Statement says Palestinian people ‘will not forgive these disgraceful acts committed in such a critical time’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
April 23, 2025, 4:53 pm
Abbas tells ‘sons of dogs’ Hamas to free hostages, remove Israel’s ‘excuses’ for Gaza war
Palestinian Authority president calls on terror group to cede control of Gaza, give up its weapons, and become a political party; 23 said killed in overnight strikes in Strip
By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians inspect the rubble following an Israeli strike on a fishing harbor in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, March 22, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
March 22, 2025, 6:48 pm
Fatah urges Hamas to cede power in Gaza to safeguard ‘Palestinians’ existence’
Hamas spokesman says terrorist organization has ‘no aspiration to govern Gaza’; group’s control of enclave remains major obstacle in negotiations over permanent ceasefire
By AFP and ToI Staff
PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 24, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP)
February 28, 2025, 4:20 am
Feeling heat from Trump to ‘solve’ Gaza, Arab states losing patience with PA’s Abbas
Palestinian Authority president left out of Arab leadership summit in Riyadh, where Gaza was main agenda item; diplomat says regional leaders will abandon Abbas if backed into corner
By Jacob Magid
Mahmoud Habbash speaks during the 19th International Muslim Forum at the Moscow Central Mosque in Moscow, Russia on December 12, 2023. (Sefa Karacan / Anadolu)
February 26, 2025, 6:37 am
Top Abbas aide: Hamas must step aside, let Palestinian Authority govern Gaza
Mahmoud Habbash tells ToI that Palestinian people together with PA and Arab states have ability to coax terror group into giving up power after 17 years of ‘failed’ rule in Strip
By Jacob Magid
Hamas gunmen secure aid trucks that arrived the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, January 21, 2025, days after a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 22, 2025, 1:44 pm
Hamas presence in Gaza during truce is a message the terror group is still in charge
Though jubilant crowds celebrating ceasefire have been described by Israel as an exaggeration of Hamas’s strength, the group has begun to curb looting, restore basic services
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians hold yellow Fatah movement flags as they demonstrate in support of the Palestinian security forces in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, December 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
January 12, 2025, 10:31 am
Fatah vows not to let Hamas ‘replicate its actions’ in West Bank, slams Iran
PA President Abbas says terror group ‘sacrificed the interests of the Palestinian people for Iran,’ caused destruction of Gaza, as Ramallah cracks down on West Bank operatives
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian Authority security officer clutches his gun amid a major raid against members of terror groups in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
December 25, 2024, 2:38 pm
Why PA security forces are cracking down on Palestinian terror groups in West Bank
Rare raid in Jenin aims to bring law and order to a hotbed of terrorism, while trying to position Ramallah to take over governance in Gaza after the war there ends
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Egyptian army soldiers guard their side of the Rafah crossing, closed since early May, on July 4, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP)
December 3, 2024, 12:29 pm
Fatah, Hamas agree to form committee to run postwar Gaza
Proposal calls for nonpartisan panel to administer Strip, and for all crossings into territory to return to pre-October 2023 operations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Hamas's new deputy leader Salah al-Arouri (seated, left) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (seated, right) sign a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements work to end their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
December 2, 2024, 8:39 pm
Cairo hosts Fatah-Hamas talks, aiming for deal on PA control in post-war Gaza
Egypt’s foreign minister says talks aim to equip Palestinian Authority to govern Strip after war, though past attempts to end rivalry between Fatah and Hamas have failed
By AFP and ToI Staff
Moussa Abu Marzouk (R), senior member of the Hamas terror group (R) signs a document as China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) and Mahmoud al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Palestinian organization and political party Fatah, look on during the signing of the 'Beijing declaration' at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024 (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
November 3, 2024, 6:37 am
Egypt hosting Fatah-Hamas talks on postwar Gaza governance, as part of truce efforts
Sources say talks are focused on putting together a committee of non-aligned Palestinian figures to comply with Israel’s demand that neither group run the Strip after the war
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leads a prayer in memory of those killed in Gaza at the start of a Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah on October 17, 2024. (Wafa)
October 19, 2024, 1:55 am
Abbas’s PLO mourns ‘martyrdom’ of Hamas chief Sinwar, a ‘great national leader’
PA president’s Fatah also offers condolences to terror group; so does Turkish foreign minister as he hosts Hamas representatives
By ToI Staff and Agencies
People walk along a street after Israeli bulldozers dug up the asphalt in the the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank following a large-scale military operation on August 30, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
August 30, 2024, 6:21 pm
Report: Jordan fears IDF West Bank ops, settler violence will drive Palestinians across border
Locals describe scenes of destruction in Tulkarem refugee camp; Hamas accuses PA of arresting operatives in Nablus; UK ‘deeply concerned’ by wide-scale operation
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Moussa Abu Marzouk (R), senior member of the Hamas terror group (R) signs a document as China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) and Mahmoud al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Palestinian organization and political party Fatah, look on during the signing of the 'Beijing declaration' at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024 (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
July 23, 2024, 2:20 pm
Hamas, Fatah sign declaration on plans to seek joint government; Israel slams Fatah
China upbeat on agreement made in Beijing, though previous efforts to end rift have failed; Israel’s Katz: ‘Instead of rejecting terrorism, Abbas embraces the murderers and rapists’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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