Palestinian security services

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

May 21, 2019, 11:10 pm

Israel okays armored cars for PA security forces, to settlers’ chagrin

After years of rejecting such requests, Jerusalem approves transfer of vehicles; regional council head blasts ‘utter neglect of human life,’ calls PA police ‘terrorists in uniform’

By TOI staff

Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

February 1, 2019, 3:22 am

Israeli-Palestinian security ties likely to continue despite US aid freeze

Coordination has been thrown into doubt by new American law that ends financial assistance if Palestinians do not agree to pay costly court rulings in favor of terror victims

By Agencies

January 30, 2019, 11:15 pm

US aid to Palestinian security services to end Friday, at Abbas’s request

$60 million annually to be slashed to prevent PA exposure to lawsuits by US victims of terror under new anti-terrorism law passed by Congress last year

By AFP

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal)

December 15, 2018, 4:04 am

Mashaal calls for guerrilla warfare to ‘liberate West Bank’ and ‘all Palestine’

Former Hamas chief says ‘resistance’ is ‘pinnacle of life’ and defines Palestinians: ‘I resist, therefore I am’

By TOI staff

Palestinian security forces beat a Hamas supporter as they try to disperse a rally marking the 31st anniversary of the founding of the terror group in Hebron on December 14, 2018. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

December 14, 2018, 6:07 pm

Abbas’s security forces use batons to ‘brutally beat’ Hamas protesters in Hebron

Palestinian Authority forces also use stun grenades to suppress West Bank ‘Day of Rage’ protest marking 31st anniversary of founding of Gaza-based terrorist group

By TOI staff and Agencies

Illustrative photo. (Nati Shohat/FLash90)

December 13, 2018, 12:31 pm

Palestinian recounts torture by PA for helping Israel to thwart terror attacks

In rare Knesset discussion, Walid says he and other suspected collaborators were forced to carry heavy cinder blocks; official says government seeking to up pressure on Ramallah

By TOI staff

A screen capture of video from social media said to show the scene of the deadly shooting of Ahmed Salama in the central Arab Israel town of Jaljulia on December 7, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

December 8, 2018, 9:21 pm

Palestinian killed in Israel after accusations of selling land to Jews — report

Ahmed Salama was said to have denied involvement in West Bank land sales to Israelis, a capital offense under Palestinian Authority law

By TOI staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, second right, speaks at a press conference during a visit to the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on February 13, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

February 13, 2018, 11:02 am

After Syria clash, Liberman says Israel will ‘respond to any provocation’

Defense minister also hails security cooperation with PA after Palestinian police protect IDF soldiers from Jenin mob

By Judah Ari Gross

A Facebook post by Muhammad al-Sawiti, a member of the Palestinian security services, praising Adolf Hitler (Shin Bet)

September 5, 2017, 3:05 pm

Palestinian policeman arrested for incitement, praised Hitler on Facebook

Muhammad al-Sawiti posted photos online with slogans glorifying Eichmann, calling for bloodshed on Temple Mount

By TOI staff

The firearm used by a Palestinian gunman, who attempted to shoot Israeli troops who came to arrest him, before being shot and killed, on July 16, 2017. (Israel Police)

July 16, 2017, 8:34 pm

Shin Bet: Gunman shot up settlements over tiff with family

Palestinian suspect killed in firefight with Israeli forces went on shooting spree with fiancée, attacking two West Bank communities

By Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian boy walks a donkey on a road in the West Bank area of Tubas, on July 19, 2016, near a sign on a concrete block which reads in Hebrew, Arabic and English "Firing area entrance forbidden."
(AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

July 8, 2017, 2:13 pm

Israeli family accidentally enters Palestinian town, returned safely

Family of five, who apparently got lost near Nablus, stopped by Palestinian security forces and handed over to IDF

By TOI staff

Palestinians walk on a dark street during a power outage in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, June 11, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

June 14, 2017, 8:06 pm

Hamas could easily solve Gaza’s electricity crisis, but prefers to finance tunnels and rockets

Latest crisis over power for the Strip typifies the bleak reality of a decade’s rule by the Islamist terror group

By Avi Issacharoff

Former Palestinian negotiator and legal adviser Diana Buttu (Screen capture/ YouTube)

May 27, 2017, 10:33 am

Former PLO negotiator calls to shut Palestinian Authority

In New York Times op-ed, Diana Buttu says Ramallah government a ‘virtual dictatorship’ and tool for perpetuating Israeli control over Palestinians

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF's elite Duvdevan unit in the West Bank in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

April 15, 2017, 11:02 pm

Undercover IDF soldiers detained by PA police in Nablus

Troops from elite Duvdevan unit exposed while on mission in northern West Bank; later released without harm

By Judah Ari Gross

A member of the joint Palestinian security forces takes position through a hole in a wall with a Kalashnikov rifle in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, April 12, 2017. (AFP/stringer)

April 13, 2017, 10:47 pm

Local forces deploy in Palestinian camp in Lebanon after clashes

9 dead and nearly 50 wounded following a week of fighting in Ain al-Hilweh

By AFP