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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video at United Nations headquarters, September 25, 2025. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)
October 1, 2025, 9:33 pm
Trump peace plan charts tough course for Palestinian Authority’s return to Gaza
Palestinian analyst says US ceasefire proposal sets ‘many minefields’ and that ‘this plan is not good for the PA’; Ramallah hoping for bailout from Arab allies amid economic crisis
By Ali Sawafta and Suleiman Al-Khalidi
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) recites a prayer during a meeting with members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 24, 2024. (Thaer Ghanaim / PPO / AFP)
July 31, 2025, 8:23 pm
US to deny visas for PA officials over efforts to ‘internationalize’ the conflict
US doesn’t disclose who will be impacted by the sanctions, but ramifications of decision appear limited as Palestinian officials already need waiver to enter US
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)
August 4, 2024, 6:23 am
Know thine enemy: When the PLO hosted 80 scholars at a Beirut Israel studies center
Historian Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s ‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’ excavates a forgotten decades-long PLO research center that helped shift some Palestinians’ thinking regarding Israel
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: A handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows (L to R) Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (2nd-L) meeting with Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune (2nd-R) and with Palestinian Hamas movement's leader Ismail Haniyeh (R) during Abbas' visit to attend Algeria's 60th independence anniversary in Algiers, July 5, 2022. (Thaer Ghanaim/AFP PHOTO/HO/PPO)
January 28, 2024, 3:27 pm
PA official: If Hamas were to win elections, we’d hand it the government
Deputy PM says Palestinians need to find common ground; PA Foreign Ministry slams funding freeze of UNRWA in response to some staffers’ Oct. 7 involvement as ‘collective punishment’
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the PLO's Prisoners' Affairs Commission in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 13, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
July 1, 2023, 6:13 pm
Palestinian prisoners affairs chief killed in West Bank car crash
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas eulogizes Qadri Abu Bakr ‘as a strong freedom fighter,’ after collision in which 2 others also killed
By ToI Staff
A Gazan preschooler stomps on an Israeli flag at a graduation ceremony, at the Young Deer Kindergarten in Beit Hanoun, in footage posted from May 24 - May 27, 2023. (MEMRI screenshot)
May 29, 2023, 9:18 pm
Gaza preschoolers stage mock liberation of ‘Palestinian land’
Children armed with prop guns and dressed in military garb trample over Israeli flag and perform military exercises at ceremony, as parents clap
By Michael Horovitz
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deliver a joint statement following their meeting at the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)
March 27, 2022, 10:54 pm
PA calls Negev Summit ‘cover-up for annexation,’ but doesn’t pan Arab states
Before joining counterparts in Sde Boker, Blinken holds talks with Abbas, who slams ‘double standard’ in desire to adhere to international law in Ukraine, not Palestine
By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman
Likud MK Fateen Mulla at the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
February 24, 2021, 2:31 pm
Watchdog demands probe of alleged election meddling by Likud MK who spoke to PLO
Criminal investigation urged into deputy minister behind talks; New Hope MK said planning to seek Knesset debate on reported bid to get Abbas to push Arab Israelis to vote Likud
By ToI Staff
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-internal affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar, in the Knesset, July 9, 2013. (Flash90/ File)
February 23, 2021, 2:14 am
Sa’ar slams Netanyahu over reported Likud outreach to PLO ahead of election
New Hope leader calls on PM to fire MK behind talks, amid reports Ramallah fears someone further right than Netanyahu could take power in Israel
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, listens to Bahrain's then Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa during an emergency Arab League session at in Cairo, Egypt, May 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
September 11, 2020, 10:46 pm
Palestinians denounce Israel-Bahrain deal as another ‘stab in the back’
PA recalls its Manama envoy, says deal ‘torpedoes’ Arab Peace Initiative; PLO slams ‘betrayal of Jerusalem and the Palestinians,’ while terror group Hamas brands it an ‘aggression’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a joint meeting of the Palestinian leadership on August 18, 2020, following Israel's normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates (Courtesy: Wafa)
August 18, 2020, 11:37 pm
After UAE agreement, Abbas warns other countries not to normalize
In rare show of symbolic reconciliation, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad attend meeting of Palestinian leadership in Ramallah
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Palestinians wait in line at an ATM in the West Bank city of Nablus on July 2, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
July 20, 2020, 7:10 pm
Gantz further delays sanctions on West Bank banks for paying PA terror stipends
Families of Israelis killed in terror attacks pan decision, which defense minister’s office says was made at recommendation of security officials
By ToI Staff
Jerome Segal announces he is running for president for the party he founded at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Aug. 28, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)
August 30, 2019, 9:24 am
Jewish socialist philosopher who met with Hamas announces US presidential run
Jerome Segal, who also inspired PLO declaration of independence and is outspoken critic of Netanyahu government, says he can add to political discourse
By Josefin Dolsten
US President George H. Bush meets with members of the Palestinian delegation to the Mideast peace talks spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, left, and Dr. Faisal Husseini, on Friday, Dec. 18, 1992 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP/Dennis Cook)
December 2, 2018, 12:33 am
Palestinians hail Bush as ‘the only US president to stand up to Israel’
PA leader Abbas sends condolence letter to president George W. Bush, whose late father pushed for major Israeli-Palestinian peace conference
By ToI Staff
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