Majed Faraj

US-based Palestinian billionaire Adnan Mjalli (Courtesy/Facebook)

January 24, 2019, 5:09 am

Bomb reportedly blows up $500,000 Mercedes of billionaire seen as Abbas rival

TV report says N. Carolina-based pharma tycoon Adnan Mjalli was not in the car at the time; move seen as a warning to him not to enter race to succeed elderly Palestinian leader

By TOI staff

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a conference in Netanya on November 22, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

December 4, 2018, 8:15 pm

Liberman quietly met top PA officials two weeks before resigning

Palestinians told then-defense minister they wanted to review economic annex of the Oslo Accords

By Adam Rasgon

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

September 3, 2018, 12:44 am

Palestinians reportedly send intel delegation to Washington for talks with CIA

Meeting comes despite Ramallah boycotting the Trump administration for recognizing Jerusalem as capital of Israel, moving embassy

By TOI staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

May 29, 2018, 1:19 am

Despite boycott of US, PA intelligence chief met Pompeo in Washington — report

Majed Faraj said to have discussed Abbas’s health during meeting with then-CIA director, days before he became secretary of state

By Michael Bachner

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)

April 29, 2018, 2:17 am

Hamas claims PA bombed its own prime minister to ‘kill reconciliation’

Terror group says three senior officers in Ramallah were behind attack last month on Rami Hamdallah’s convoy in Gaza

By TOI staff

Hamas policemen carry out a raid in Nuseirat, south of Gaza City on March 22, 2018, that resulted in the arrest of a suspect in a recent bomb attack against the Palestinian prime minister, officials said. ( AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

March 22, 2018, 5:06 pm

PA: Hamas claims that it killed convoy bombing suspect are ‘illogical’

Accusations come after Hamas says it killed the main suspect in the attempted assassination of the Palestinian prime minister

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with the Revolutionary Council of the ruling Fatah party in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 1, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

March 22, 2018, 10:52 am

Abbas health scares spark succession talk

Sources say PA president was forced to cancel a visit to Venezuela, and has a heart specialist at presidential compound whenever he is there

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 19, 2018. (FLASH90)

March 19, 2018, 8:54 pm

Fuming at US, Abbas calls ambassador a ‘son of a dog, settler’

Friedman shoots back that PA president’s unprecedented attack could be a form of anti-Semitism

By TOI staff

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

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (2nd-R), escorted by his bodyguards, is greeted by police forces of the Hamas terror group (L) upon his arrival in Gaza City on March 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

March 13, 2018, 11:19 pm

Abbas condemns ‘murderous terror attack’ on PA convoy

Palestinian leader accuses Hamas of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Hamdallah in order to break away and form own ‘suspicious’ Gaza state

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Members of the Hamas security forces inspect the crater left at the site of an explosion that targeted the convoy of the Palestinian Prime Minister during his visit to the Gaza strip on March 13, 2018. (AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)

March 13, 2018, 9:40 pm

Blast targeting Hamdallah blows Palestinian rift wide open

Some see the assassination attempt as a nail in the coffin of the unity bid, as a war of words erupts between Hamas and the PA

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves to the crowd upon his arrival in Gaza City on March 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

March 13, 2018, 2:23 pm

UN envoy condemns Gaza attack on Palestinian PM as a ‘grave incident’

PA security chief says too early to know who was responsible; UN special coordinator says Hamas must prevent violence

By TOI staff and AP

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, second right, escorted by his bodyguards, is greeted by Hamas police forces, left, upon his arrival in Gaza City on March 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

March 13, 2018, 10:39 am

Palestinian PM survives assassination attempt as convoy bombed during Gaza visit

Rami Hamdallah and PA intelligence chief Majed Faraj unhurt; PA holds Hamas responsible for ‘murderous’ attack; Israel treats wounded at Erez crossing

By Khaled Abu Toameh and Agencies

File: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah arrives at a cabinet meeting in Gaza City on October 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

March 12, 2018, 11:47 pm

PA prime minister to visit Gaza on Tuesday

Rami Hamdallah set to attend inauguration of a wastewater treatment plant, unclear if he will meet Hamas officials

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A Palestinian man loads a horse-pulled cart with food aid outside the United Nations food distribution center in Gaza City on January 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

January 26, 2018, 7:35 am

As Gaza approaches ‘famine,’ Israel, rather than world, appears most concerned

Following US aid cuts from UNRWA, Palestinian residents hold near-daily protests and coastal enclave appears on brink of economic collapse

By Avi Issacharoff