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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Issa Qaraqe

Illustrative. Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners end a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 10:56 pm
PA slams Israeli bill to withhold money it uses to pay prisoners
Ministerial Committee for Legislation wants to deduct welfare payments to terrorists and other security prisoners, and their families, from tax revenues
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Illustrative: Arab MK Ahmad Tibi (C) holds a poster against administrative detention during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed (portrait), who has been fasting for 53 days over his detention without trial, as they demonstrate outside the Ashkelon hospital where he is being held on August 9, 2016. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
February 13, 2018, 7:04 pm
Palestinians held without trial to ‘boycott’ Israeli courts
Head of committee for prisoners’ affairs says inmates will no longer cooperate, in protest of administrative detention
By AFP
Illustrative: IDF soldiers during an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 3, 2017, 6:37 pm
Palestinian suspect shot by IDF said to die of wounds
PLFP terror group mourns death of ‘fallen fighter Raed Al-Salihi,’ who was shot by soldiers during an arrest raid in August
By Dov Lieber
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, accompanied by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., listening during a news conference about legislation on Iran policy and Middle East security, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington (Evan Vucci/AP Images/JTA)
June 17, 2017, 12:39 am
Senate Democrats edge closer to backing cuts in Palestinian aid
Secretary Tillerson said earlier this week that PA intended to stop paying terrorists, but the Palestinians promptly contradicted him
By JTA and Eric Cortellessa
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 13, 2017. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 14, 2017, 9:36 pm
Tillerson waters down statement that Palestinians ‘changed policy’ of terror payments
Secretary now tells House members there’s an ‘active discussion’ between DC and Ramallah about ending allowances for terrorists
By Eric Cortellessa
Palestinian Authority official Issa Qaraqe gives a press conference in Ramallah on the large number of Palestinians staging hunger strikes in Israeli jails on April 19, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
June 14, 2017, 4:57 pm
Defying US, Palestinian official vows payments to terrorists will continue
Head of prisoners committee says ‘we reject ending the subsidies to the prisoners and families of martyrs. We will not apologize for it’
By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff
This photo taken on May 16, 2017 shows House Majority Whip. Steve Scalise (R-LA)as he speaks to the media in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / MARK WILSON)
June 14, 2017, 2:20 pm
Wounded US congressman ‘critical’ after surgery – hospital
Bernie Sanders condemns ‘despicable’ Virginia shooter he says volunteered on his campaign; London apartment building fire death toll rises to 12
By ToI Staff
Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners ended a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)
May 28, 2017, 11:06 pm
Palestinians claim 80% of hunger strikers’ demands were met
Prisoners’ spokesman says they achieved a ‘fundamental transformation in living conditions,’ Israel denies any deal
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority official Issa Qaraqe gives a press conference in Ramallah on the large number of Palestinians staging hunger strikes in Israeli jails on April 19, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
May 12, 2017, 11:24 am
PA official says negotiations to end prisoners’ hunger strike likely
Prisoners minister claims there are signs Israel could soon hold talks with strikers
By ToI Staff
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, 12:49 am
Trump ‘raises concerns’ with Abbas on prisoner payments
White House says the two leaders also discussed ways to improve Palestinian economy
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
April 29, 2017, 6:55 pm
Abbas will continue to pay Palestinian prisoners, PA minister says
Issa Qaraqe says president ‘outright rejects’ Israeli demands to halt stipends to terrorists, fully backs ongoing hunger strike
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority official Issa Qaraqe gives a press conference in Ramallah on the large number of Palestinians staging hunger strikes in Israeli jails on April 19, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
April 19, 2017, 5:45 pm
Palestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers
PA spokesperson threatens ‘new intifada’ if any prisoners die or are force-fed during protest led by Marwan Barghouti
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a guard in an Israeli prison (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
July 27, 2016, 5:41 pm
100 Palestinian inmates fast in solidarity with hunger strikers
Prisons service fines and sanctions prisoners protesting incarceration without charge, in bid to end their strike
By ToI Staff
Omar Zayed (Channel 2)
February 29, 2016, 12:24 am
Israel and PA to blame for death of Palestinian terrorist, says his family
Relatives say PA pressed Omar Zayed to leave mission in Bulgaria, where he was found dying Friday after apparent fall from upper story
By Itamar Sharon and AFP
Omar Zayed (Channel 2)
February 27, 2016, 6:36 pm
Death of Palestinian terrorist is ‘happy day’ for sister of Israeli he murdered
As Omar Zayed dies in mysterious circumstances in Bulgaria, family of yeshiva student Eliyahu Amedi ‘close a circle’ after 30 years
By Itamar Sharon and AFP
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