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Palestinian protesters burn the US and Israeli flags in Gaza City on December 6, 2017, ahead of US President Donald Trump's speech regarding Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
December 6, 2017, 7:36 pm
Ahead of Trump’s Jerusalem speech, Fatah says protests should be peaceful
Palestinians call for UN Security Council to condemn Trump; Abbas to deliver televised statement directly after US president finishes his remarks
By Dov Lieber
Mahmoud al-Aloul, member of the Central Committee of Fatah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 16, 2017, 12:16 pm
Fatah picks first-ever deputy for Abbas, sidelines Barghouti
Appointment of Mahmoud al-Aloul could put him in line to take over Palestinian leadership. Or not
By Dov Lieber and Avi Issacharoff
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, center, casts his vote at the Muqataa, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the city of Ramallah the West Bank, December 3, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
December 4, 2016, 6:03 pm
At Fatah congress, Rajoub — and Abbas — walk away with big wins
In pulling off conference without a hitch and sidelining rival Dahlan, PA president has good reason to be pleased… for now
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian students supporting the Fatah movement wave both their national and the movement's flag during an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 / AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI
November 20, 2016, 3:23 pm
Palestinian leadership may choose Abbas’s successor, and tear itself apart
An imminent Fatah congress in Ramallah will shape the future of the Palestinian movement, laying bare its rivalries and its rifts
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)
October 30, 2016, 11:42 am
Abbas-Dahlan rivalry is a Palestinian soap opera with immense implications
The PA president has been meeting with the leaders of Turkey, Qatar and Hamas — perhaps because his friends are abandoning him
By Avi Issacharoff
(R-L) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994, in Olso, Norway. (Government Press Office via Getty Images)
October 25, 2016, 7:31 pm
Hamas returns Arafat’s Nobel prize to PA
Medal, missing since 2007 following takeover of Gaza Strip, to go on display at new Ramallah museum
By Agencies
Nasser al-Kidwa in 2012 (photo credit: AP)
October 6, 2016, 5:24 am
Arafat’s nephew said tapped to lead PA after Abbas
Nasser al-Kidwa reportedly emerging as next head of Palestinian Authority as Arab states push 81-year-old president to name successor
By TOI staff
President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER)
July 5, 2016, 5:41 am
The beginning of the end of the Abbas era
A rise in terrorism, and internal Palestinian violence, underline the growing instability in the West Bank — and the sense of an imminent leadership change
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 4, 2016. (Flash90)
June 27, 2016, 5:07 am
Race to succeed Abbas stalled by politics, Fatah infighting
Palestinian Authority likely to bypass protocol in effort to exclude its rival Hamas from the selection process
By Avi Issacharoff
Jordan's King Abdullah (left), pictured with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Ramallah in November, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
June 4, 2016, 3:31 am
Ramallah fumes at Jordanian meddling in question of Abbas’s successor
Palestinian sources say Amman officials have met with several possible candidates to lead the Palestinians
By Avi Issacharoff
Fayez Abu Eitta, a Fatah leader in Gaza, speaks on the phone as he inspects the damage to his car in the parking lot of his home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on November 7, 2014. (Photo Credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)
November 7, 2014, 5:21 pm
Fatah says Hamas responsible for wave of Gaza bomb attacks
At least 10 explosions hit senior Fatah members’ homes in Strip; no reports of casualties
By AFP
Palestinians gather to light candles at the mausoleum of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 10, ahead of a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of his death (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
November 23, 2012, 5:27 am
Arafat’s widow says husband’s exhumation is ‘painful but necessary’
‘If there was a crime, it must be solved,’ says Suha Arafat; French expert has told Times of Israel there is ‘absolutely no way’ PLO chief was poisoned
By Ron Friedman
Members of the Palestinian Presidential Guard stand at the grave of Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue, File)
November 11, 2012, 9:05 pm
Russians to join team examining Arafat’s remains
Palestinian leader’s relatives reiterate opposition to exhumation
By Adiv Sterman
Yasser Arafat's burial compound in Ramallah (photo credit: Muhammed Muheisen/AP)
July 12, 2012, 4:29 pm
Palestinian officials postpone decision on Arafat autopsy
Investigators waiting to review Swiss reports on traces of radioactive material found on late PA president’s clothes
By AP and TOI staff
A Syrian opposition rally in Damascus on Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Kafarsouseh Revolt)
July 2, 2012, 10:16 pm
Arab League chief urges divided Syrian opposition to unite
Rebels must not let efforts be quashed by internecine fighting, Nabil Elaraby says
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