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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

Hussein al-Sheikh

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
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (C) heads a meeting with ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, where they discuss US President Donald Trump's proposal for Egypt and Jordan to host Palestinians displaced from the Gaza Strip, in Cairo on February 1, 2025. (Khaled Desouki / AFP)
February 4, 2025, 9:47 am
In letter to US, five Arab nations reject transfer of Gazans, urge two-state solution
Foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE, plus Palestinian official, write US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after Trump suggests Gazans be resettled
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a speech during an extraordinary Parliamentary Meeting on Palestinians, at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP/Ali Unal)
August 19, 2024, 7:37 pm
Abbas said to ask Israel to allow Gaza visit as PA works to line up support for trip
Official request to Tzachi Hanegbi indicates Palestinian leader wants to enter Strip via Israeli crossing and not through Egypt, Walla reports; Netanyahu thought to have final say
By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff
Egyptian army soldiers guard their side of the Rafah crossing, closed since early May, on July 4, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP)
August 11, 2024, 8:42 am
Egypt pushing for Palestinian Authority to take over Gaza’s Rafah Crossing – report
Plan said to be first step in larger move enabling PA to take over other strategic areas of Strip after war against Hamas ends
By ToI Staff
Foreign Ministers from five Arab and Islamic countries From left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Palestine Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi arrive to the Diaoyutai state guesthouse to meet with their Chinese Counterpart Wang Yi, in Beijing, November 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
February 8, 2024, 2:24 am
Riyadh to host ministerial confab to advance united Arab stance for postwar Gaza
5 participating countries aim to raise pressure for ceasefire by leveraging their willingness to assist in Gaza revival and integrate Israel into region if Palestinian state advanced
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looking on as he receives Palestinian athletes in Ramallah in the West Bank on August 4, 2023. (Wissam Khalifa/PPO/AFP)
December 19, 2023, 9:33 pm
Abbas says willing to reform PA to rule Gaza, but Israeli policies ‘the problem’
Top aide to Palestinian Authority president lambastes Hamas for bringing destruction upon Gaza: ‘There will be a hard reckoning’
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh at a meeting in Amman, Jordan, November 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)
December 17, 2023, 10:31 pm
Senior PA official: Hamas must ‘reconsider all its policies and methods’ after war
Hussein al-Sheikh, seen as potential successor to Mahmoud Abbas, says ‘after all this [killing],’ there must be a ‘serious, honest and responsible assessment’ of Palestinian cause
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Wafa)
September 25, 2023, 8:19 pm
Saudi delegation to visit West Bank this week as Israel normalization talk increases
New non-resident ambassador to lead delegation and present his credentials to PA’s Abbas; Riyadh condemns Israeli ‘extremist’ provocations as Jews pray on Temple Mount
By ToI Staff
Yasser Abbas is interviewed on February 24, 2017. (Screen capture/Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
September 15, 2023, 1:29 am
Abbas’s son was part of PA delegation to meetings in Riyadh on Israel normalization
Yasser Abbas’s inclusion in talks with Saudi, US officials ‘jarring’ given his lack of formal role, says scholar; sides didn’t issue trip readout, allowing presence to go unnoticed
By Jacob Magid
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jeddah on June 7, 2023. (Amer Hilabi/Pool Photo via AP)
September 15, 2023, 12:37 am
Blinken weighs October trip to Middle East, as US maintains normalization push
US top diplomat’s trip would include stops in Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia, but has not yet been finalized, Israeli officials tell ToI
By Jacob Magid
Saudi King Salman, right, receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2017. (Al-Ekhbariya via AP)
September 14, 2023, 6:19 pm
Saudis co-hosting UN event aimed at revamping Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Next week’s General Assembly confab organized with Arab League, EU is latest Riyadh effort to engage in Palestinian issue amid normalization talks; Israeli, PA missions not invited
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, April 19, 2023. (Wafa)
September 14, 2023, 4:24 pm
Officials: Saudis assured Palestinians they won’t be abandoned in normalization talks
PA delegation has several demands, but Riyadh is still studying the issue and will take months to decide which of them to put on the table in talks with the US on peace with Israel
By Jacob Magid
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the APEC Leader's Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC summit, November 18, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)
September 3, 2023, 6:55 pm
US delegation heading to Saudi Arabia amid Biden normalization push
Riyadh to host senior White House and State Department officials in same week as top Palestinian officials will be visiting to discuss high-stakes deal
By Jacob Magid
Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Wafa)
August 31, 2023, 2:33 am
Palestinians seek ‘irreversible’ measures as part of Israel-Saudi deal, officials say
Ramallah proposing steps that can’t be rolled back by Israel, but Biden officials have pressed PA to moderate requests and direct them at Jerusalem, not Washington
By Jacob Magid
Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), attends the funeral of prime minister Ahmad Qurei in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on February 22, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
August 25, 2023, 9:01 am
The Palestinian leader who survived the death of Palestine
What would it mean for Hussein al-Sheikh to lead a people whose dream of independence is no longer alive?
By Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman
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