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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Mahmoud Habbash

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
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, September 26, 2024. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP)
January 18, 2025, 1:37 am
Abbas: PA ready to assume ‘full responsibility’ in Gaza Strip when ceasefire begins
President of Palestinian Authority, which isn’t a party to the Israel-Hamas deal, said to issue 4-page document outlining his West Bank-based government’s plans for ruling Gaza
By AFP and Jacob Magid
Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, November 30, 2023. (Photo by Flash90)
December 8, 2023, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 8: Day 63 – War cabinet’s Eisenkot learns of son’s death while touring front
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses officials with children serving on front lines, and US bureau chief Jacob Magid looks at US remarks regarding Gaza and PA on Hamas
By ToI Staff
An undated image of Palestinian Authority presidential adviser Mahmoud Habbash. (Mahmoud Habbash/Facebook)
December 7, 2023, 10:46 am
Abbas denouncing Hamas, but criticism kept private due to IDF ‘aggression’ – top aide
Mahmoud Habbash tells ToI that Israel undermining US vision for ‘revitalized’ PA by withholding its tax revenues, warns no one will run postwar Gaza if IDF remains or enters at will
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)
April 19, 2023, 10:22 am
Palestinian leader Abbas meets Saudi crown prince in Jeddah
Meeting focuses on ways to strengthen ties, while prince reaffirms commitment to establishing independent Palestinian state; Hamas delegation also in kingdom
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on August 16, 2022. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
August 20, 2022, 7:19 pm
Hamas and PIJ: Germany showing its bias by probing Abbas’s ’50 holocausts’ claim
Terror groups blast Berlin for backing ‘the occupation’ while ignoring Palestinian cause; Islamic Jihad says PA chief’s comments were ‘part of national narrative’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
August 19, 2022, 8:39 pm
Abbas religious affairs adviser defends him from outcry over ’50 holocausts’ remark
Mahmoud al-Habash claims PA leader subject to ‘campaign of incitement’ by Israeli leaders denouncing him for comment during Berlin visit: ‘He’s defending his people’
By ToI Staff
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and UAE's deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 24, 2016. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool photo via AP/File)
August 18, 2020, 6:38 am
The Palestinians weren’t betrayed by the UAE. They were simply left behind
There’s a lesson for the Palestinians in the normalization agreement: Israel can be pressured and swayed, but not by those champions of the Palestinian cause who seek to destroy it
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Hundreds of Israeli activists participating in an event at the Palestinian Authority presidential headquarters in Ramallah on November 28, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)
November 29, 2019, 4:33 am
In Ramallah, hundreds of Israelis join Palestinians to ‘unify forces’ for peace
Fatah official Jibril Rajoub says presence of Israelis at solidarity event proves there is a partner for peace; activists boo Neturei Karta rabbi slating ‘Zionist entity’
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
November 6, 2019, 4:51 pm
Abbas bans child marriage, with some legal exemptions
Former PA women’s affairs minister Haifa al-Agha praises move, which she says will enable children ‘to live their childhood and receive an education’
By Adam Rasgon
US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 4:27 pm
Kushner and Netanyahu agree on borders? 5 things to know from the past week
Saudi-owned papers report that Hamas-run security forces collared head of Iran-backed group in Gaza; Arab Israeli journalist argues right-wing majority in the Knesset will prevail
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
October 13, 2018, 8:37 pm
Abbas adviser says ending Hamas rule over Gaza is a ‘religious duty’
‘Afterwards, we can all free Jerusalem,’ says Mahmoud al-Habash, Palestinian Authority president’s religious affairs aide
By Adam Rasgon
Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)
July 7, 2018, 10:23 am
Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition
Mahmoud Habbash laments restrictions on Muslim access to Al-Aqsa Mosque: ‘Are they trying to do to others what was done to them?’
By ToI Staff
Hamas personnel inspect the site of an explosion that occurred as the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah entered Gaza through the Erez crossing with Israel, on the main road in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, on March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
March 16, 2018, 11:49 pm
Abbas aide threatens to punish Hamas amid fallout from Gaza attack
PA, Hamas continue to trade accusations over bombing of PA prime minister’s convoy. ‘What happened will not pass without a response,’ Ramallah official says
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas observe the honor guard during a visit in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)
August 7, 2017, 5:04 pm
Jordanian king tells Abbas Trump committed to peace process
In rare visit by monarch to Ramallah, two sides agree to form task force to prepare for any future Temple Mount tension
By Dov Lieber
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