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Palestinian unity deal

Fadwa Barghouti, wife of leading member of the Fatah party Marwan Barghouti, the most high-profile Palestinian security prisoner in Israeli custody, addresses a rally to support him in Ramallah city in the West Bank on August 19, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
November 19, 2025, 4:46 pm
Buoyed by Trump, Marwan Barghouti’s wife presses Israelis to free terror convict for peace
After her husband was passed over for release last month, Fadwa Barghouti says in 1st-ever interview with Israeli press that his ability to unify Palestinians behind 2-state platform can stabilize region
By Jacob Magid
FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and then-Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City, March 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
April 30, 2024, 12:00 pm
China: Hamas, Fatah showed ‘political will’ for reconciliation in recent Beijing talks
Chinese Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups made ‘positive progress,’ agreed on further talks to ‘achieve the realization of Palestinian solidarity and unity’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Head of the Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90/ File)
November 6, 2018, 1:12 pm
‘Deceptive quiet’: Shin Bet chief says 480 terror attacks foiled in past year
Nadav Argaman tells lawmakers that Palestinian territories are ‘extremely unstable’
By Tamar Pileggi
Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ostensibly ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
April 7, 2018, 4:12 am
Egypt sending mediators to Gaza in bid to save faltering unity deal — report
Delegation from Cairo stepping up pressure to implement reconciliation agreement between Hamas and its West Bank rival, Fatah
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 19, 2018. (FLASH90)
March 19, 2018, 8:54 pm
Fuming at US, Abbas calls ambassador a ‘son of a dog, settler’
Friedman shoots back that PA president’s unprecedented attack could be a form of anti-Semitism
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (2nd-R), escorted by his bodyguards, is greeted by police forces of the Hamas terror group (L) upon his arrival in Gaza City on March 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
March 13, 2018, 11:19 pm
Abbas condemns ‘murderous terror attack’ on PA convoy
Palestinian leader accuses Hamas of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Hamdallah in order to break away and form own ‘suspicious’ Gaza state
By Khaled Abu Toameh
A Palestinian woman and child bid farewell through the window of a bus in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on December 16, 2017, prior to their departure for the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
December 16, 2017, 4:17 pm
Egypt opens Gaza border for four days
Entry into Gaza allowed, but only humanitarian cases can leave; some 20,000 Gazans are seeking to exit
By AFP and ToI Staff
Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ostensibly ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
November 19, 2017, 4:43 pm
Palestinian factions to meet in Cairo for reconciliation push
Hamas-Fatah tensions have re-emerged since signing reconciliation deal over humanitarian issues and PA’s calls for Gaza rulers to disarm
By AFP
In this photo released by the Hamas media office, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas terror group's political bureau, visits Tawfiq Abu Naim at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 27, 2017. (Mohammad Austaz, Hamas Media Office via AP)
October 28, 2017, 11:48 pm
Hamas security chief, injured in car bombing, says unity deal still on track
Emerging from the hospital, Tawfiq Abu Naim says Hamas will meet November 1 deadline to hand over border crossing control to Palestinian Authority
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 photo, Abulrahem Abdrabo, whose son was killed during the internal fighting between Hamas and Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in 2007, shakes hands as he receives a cheque for $50,000 during a social reconciliation ceremony in Beit Lahiya City, Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
October 20, 2017, 7:03 pm
To help unity deal, Gaza families get $50,000 payments to end blood feuds
$50 million fund set up to help ease wounds from bloody Hamas -Fatah clashes in 2007; move masterminded by Abbas rival Mohammed Dahlan
By Fares Akram
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