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Rawhi Fattouh, the designated temporary replacement for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Youtube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the copyright law)
November 27, 2024, 11:43 pm
Abbas declares Rawhi Fattouh will be interim PA head if presidency becomes vacant
Speaker of Palestinian National Council briefly served as interim PA president after Yasser Arafat’s death
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas poses for a picture with his new government, after it was sworn in on March 31, 2024, in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Finance Minister Omar Bitar is standing third from the left in the front row. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
April 1, 2024, 11:51 pm
Two ministers in new Palestinian cabinet have made statements supporting terrorism
Watchdog uncovers 2002 sermon by religious affairs minister in which he called Jews ‘pigs and apes,’ while women’s affairs minister honored terrorists who killed dozens of Israelis
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (center) holds a rare meeting with Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh (fourth from right) under the auspices of Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune, on Tuesday July 5, 2022, in Algiers. (WAFA)
July 5, 2022, 11:55 pm
PA leader Abbas, Hamas’s Haniyeh hold first face-to-face meeting in years in Algeria
Talks between rival leaders pushed for by Algiers after 15 years of infighting that have left Palestinian politics paralyzed
By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff
PLO secretary general Saeb Erekat addresses the media following a meeting with diplomats in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 30, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
February 1, 2019, 5:56 am
Erekat meets UN envoy to protest Israeli ejection of Hebron observer group
Mladenov’s first talks with Palestinian leadership since being shunned by PA in October also focus on formation of new Palestinian government
By ToI Staff
Palestinians run away from tear gas thrown by police officers outside Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
July 22, 2017, 2:25 pm
Israeli leaders can still contain Temple Mount crisis, but require political courage
The escalating violence brings to mind the events of September 2000, after opposition leader Sharon visited the Mount, but with a few significant differences
By Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative: A prisoner holding the bars of a jail cell. (Channel 2 news screenshot)
July 20, 2017, 9:39 am
Jerusalem court: PA tortured dozens of suspected collaborators with Israel
In landmark ruling, judge says Ramallah must pay damages for the harm caused to 51 plaintiffs between 1990 and 2003
By ToI Staff
Palestinians demonstrate in front of the High Court in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 21, 2016, calling on authorities not to postpone the local elections. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)
September 21, 2016, 7:47 pm
Palestinian local polls postponed, no new date set
Court pushes off ruling on candidate lists disputed by rival factions Fatah and Hamas
By AFP
Former Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath in a 2016 interview with the Palestinian Authority's Awdha TV. (Screen capture/YouTube/MEMRI)
July 30, 2016, 11:36 am
South African NGO brings together Palestinian factions
Conflict resolution experts seek to help warring groups ‘forge a common political vision for the future’
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Khartoum's airport, July 19, 2016. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)
July 28, 2016, 12:59 pm
Fatah, Hamas to hold talks in renewed bid to bury hatchet
Abbas also accuses US of stalling search for solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict
By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber
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
Illustrative: Palestinian police in the West Bank (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
June 16, 2016, 1:01 am
Palestinian teen said shot by PA forces in East Jerusalem
Abbas’s policemen conduct arrests in Kafr Aqab, apparently violating Israeli sovereignty; 15-year-old seriously wounded in gunfight
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a press conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016 (AP/Majdi Mohammed, File)
May 24, 2016, 1:26 pm
In tough times, most Palestinians view government as corrupt
Squeezed by declining foreign aid, Israeli restrictions and rampant nepotism, over 95% in the West Bank see graft in Abbas administration
By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas listens during an exclusive interview with AFP reporters in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
May 7, 2016, 11:29 pm
Abbas confirms PA still paying terrorists’ salaries — report
Same funds still being channeled to Palestinian prisoners, watchdog says, despite assurances to foreign donors that PA no longer involved
By ToI Staff
Palestinian girls sit in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount compound on October 23, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
October 27, 2015, 10:23 pm
Losing Palestine
The terrorism of the past month is not a new surge in Palestinian opposition to Israel, but a howl against the pervasive Palestinian sense that resistance has failed
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron (L) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 7, 2015. (AFP/ ABBAS MOMANI)
September 7, 2015, 6:34 pm
PLO delays internal leadership elections at last minute
Move reflects growing discontent within PA as critics allege Abbas using the hastily arranged session to sideline rivals
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
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