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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

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This handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meeting with Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair in Amman, Jordan, on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 8:31 am
Abbas urges Hamas to free hostages, says terror group won’t rule postwar Gaza
Meeting former UK premier Tony Blair in Amman, Palestinian Authority president calls on rival to cede its arms and let Ramallah take over governing Strip
By ToI Staff
Settlers hurl stones, reportedly during clashes with Palestinians, in the West Bank town of Sinjil on July 11, 2025. (Screen capture: Al-Jarmaq News)
July 12, 2025, 1:18 am
Two Palestinians, including US citizen, killed by settlers in West Bank attack — PA
No immediate reports of arrests after incident in Sinjil; Palestinian Authority health ministry says the Palestinian-American dual national ‘died after being severely beaten’
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP
A woman walks past the closed offices of the Alkhalej Exchange Company in Ramallah on May 16, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
July 10, 2025, 4:46 am
The West Bank economy runs on shekels. So why aren’t Palestinian banks accepting them?
For 30 years, Israel has imposed a cap on how many shekels the Palestinian Authority may convert into foreign currency, giving banks a surplus of shekels – and triggering an economic crisis
By Nurit Yohanan
Israeli soldiers and medics at the scene of a fatal terror stabbing next to the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, on September 16, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
June 21, 2025, 12:49 am
US Supreme Court unanimously rules that American terror victims can sue PA and PLO
Justices uphold 2019 law allowing US citizens harmed in attacks outside the United States to file lawsuits against the Palestinian entities
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinians walking near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
June 13, 2025, 3:26 pm
UN humanitarian agency calls Israel-backed GHF aid mechanism in Gaza ‘a failure’
Gaza Humanitarian Fund is ‘not doing what a humanitarian operation should do, which is providing aid to people where they are, in a safe and secure manner,’ says OCHA spokeswoman
By AFP and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Bloomberg, June 10, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)
June 10, 2025, 10:06 pm
US envoy: ‘No room’ for Palestinian state in West Bank under current conditions
Huckabee says he doesn’t think two-state solution is among Washington’s policy goals, floats carving a state for Palestinians out of existing Muslim countries
By Lazar Berman, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
June 6, 2025, 9:31 pm
US slated to reverse planned nix of office tasked with boosting Israel-PA security ties
Office of Security Coordinator in Jerusalem will report to US ambassador to Israel, rather than directly to secretary of state in what could lead to loss of its influence
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza, in screen captures from a recent video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook)
June 5, 2025, 11:32 pm
Arab envoy: Netanyahu’s arming of Gaza gang shows ‘he’s learned little since Oct. 7’
Ambassador laments Israeli PM’s unabated effort to weaken PA, warning that latest effort to divide Palestinians ‘increases chances of Somalia-like scenario’ in the Strip
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Explosives and other weapons located by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, July 4, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 1, 2025, 3:15 pm
2 Israelis indicted for selling dual-use chemicals used in terror attacks to Palestinians
Indictment says Yehezkel Moshe and Jihad Wazuz sold hundreds of tons of chemicals to agricultural supply businesses in the West Bank, some of which were sold on to terrorists
By Jeremy Sharon
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends the Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
May 30, 2025, 11:13 pm
Israel to block Saudi-led delegation of Middle Eastern ministers from visiting West Bank
Senior Israeli official says Jerusalem won’t cooperate with moves that harm its security, claiming PA’s Abbas was slated to use visit to advance Palestinian statehood
By Jacob Magid
Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 24, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 8:28 am
Israel to begin deporting citizen terror convicts paid by Palestinian Authority
Defense minister and coalition whip say four individuals are in advanced stages of deportation process, with proceedings initiated against hundreds more
By ToI Staff
Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union stand behind a gate on the eastern entrance of Jenin camp during a visit to the city of Jenin, on May 21, 2025 (Mohammad MANSOUR / AFP)
May 21, 2025, 9:52 pm
International outrage rings out after troops fire near dozens of diplomats in Jenin
Countries summon Israeli envoys, demand explanations and investigations into why soldiers fired warning shots near group of diplomats during visit to major West Bank city
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (R) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on May 21, 2025/ (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
May 21, 2025, 7:57 pm
Beirut, PA agree that Lebanon won’t be used as a launchpad for attacks on Israel
Abbas and Aoun agree on ‘commitment’ that Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon can’t be ‘safe havens for extremist groups,’ don’t specify how crackdown is planned
By AP and ToI Staff
Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union stand behind a gate at the eastern entrance of Jenin camp during a visit to the city of Jenin, on May 21, 2025. (Mohammad MANSOUR / AFP)
May 21, 2025, 4:05 pm
Troops fire in air to ward off foreign diplomats touring Jenin; IDF apologizes
Army says group strayed from approved route; videos show representatives from UK, France, Canada, Russia, China and elsewhere scrambling for cover as shots ring out
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their talks in the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, on Saturday, May 10, 2025, as part of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Sergei Bobylev/Photo host agency RIA Novosti via AP)
May 20, 2025, 8:45 pm
PA’s Abbas to discuss weapons in Lebanon’s Palestinian camps during Beirut visit
Delegation member says Palestinian Authority leader, during meeting with Lebanese president, will also raise matter of Palestinians being prevented from working in Lebanon
By AFP and ToI Staff
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