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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)
October 10, 2026, 5:14 pm
Abbas postpones Palestinian elections, sets presidential poll for September 2027
Palestinian leader, who has repeatedly delayed and nixed planned votes over the years, accuses Israel of hindering process; FM Sa’ar rejects ‘ridiculous lie’ by ‘corrupt dictator’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the inauguration ceremony of the Innovation and Excellence Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
October 9, 2026, 6:43 pm
Palestinians set to delay November’s legislative elections, citing worsening conditions
20 years since last vote, PA’s Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh says ‘anticipated political, security and economic conditions have not materialized’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Hannah Gann, a Jewish public school teacher and activist in Philadelphia who pretended to be Palestinian for years, addresses a meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Education, Dec. 4, 2025.(Screenshot via JTA)
October 7, 2026, 9:53 am
Philadelphia teacher who pretended to be Palestinian was infamous among local Jews
Some PA Jewish groups didn’t know Hannah Gann was claiming to be from the Middle East, but they knew she praised Oct. 7 and brought anti-Israel bias into her high school classroom
By Andrew Lapin
Mohammed Abed, 36, a Palestinian systems engineer who arrived in Mexico in 2025 with 17 family members after losing his daughter in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, prepares Palestinian food at an open-air market in the Condesa neighbourhood of Mexico City, Mexico, September 22, 2026. (Fred Ramos/Reuters)
October 2, 2026, 11:13 pm
Palestinians from Gaza rebuild in Mexico City through food
After losing 4-year-old daughter in IDF airstrike, Mohammed Abed fled with 17 relatives and now sells hummus, falafel and shawarma in Mexico’s capital, helping double country’s tiny Palestinian population
By Diego Oré
Israelis enjoy a day at an ancient archaeological site known as Herod’s Pool, near the Israeli settlement of Petzael, which was filled with water earmarked for Palestinian farmland, in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, on June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 26, 2026, 12:30 pm
Settlers divert West Bank spring waters as Israel pushes heritage site takeovers
Palestinians say moves are leaving them without water for farmlands in latest effort promoted by Israel’s hardline government to expand Israeli control over the territory
By AP
View of the new Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Arugot in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, September 3, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
September 25, 2026, 9:53 pm
UN blacklists 61 more firms operating in West Bank settlements
Israeli pesticide maker ADAMA, real estate investment holding company Alony Hetz and Spain’s Salvat Logistica among companies added to database that could be used for boycotts
By Reuters
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a joint press conference with Slovenia’s foreign minister (not pictured) prior to the opening of Israel’s embassy in Slovenia, in Ljubljana on September 9, 2026. (Martin Metelko/AFP)
September 10, 2026, 12:12 am
Israel has no plans ‘to expel or to deport’ Palestinians from Gaza, Sa’ar says
Speaking at embassy opening in Slovenia, FM says those who want to leave war-torn Strip can, but no one will be forced out
By Lazar Berman
Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a Ynet conference, September 2, 2026. (Screenshot)
September 2, 2026, 8:08 pm
Katz: Israel will facilitate emigration from Gaza ‘by any means’ as soon as Trump allows
Defense minister claims 80% of Palestinians want to leave Gaza, but nobody will take them; PM visits IDF post in Strip, says Israel won’t withdraw from territory it currently holds
By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
Mourners carry the casket of Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour during his funeral at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, in the West Bank, on August 26, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)
August 27, 2026, 2:11 am
‘An entire era has ended’: Palestinians mourn death of beloved artist Sliman Mansour
Mansour, who died at 79, is best known for 1973 painting, ‘Camel of Hardships,” which depicts an elderly Palestinian porter carrying Jerusalem on his back
By AFP
A Palestinian inspects one of the buildings at his home, reportedly set fire and defaced with graffiti by Israeli settlers south of Nablus in the West Bank, on August 23, 2026. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)
August 23, 2026, 2:33 pm
Car, building torched in apparent settler attack in West Bank; no injuries reported
Police announce arrest of two Israeli teens over Saturday assault of Palestinian amputee near Hebron; IDF troops leave Qusra home blocked by settlers after clothes-tossing incident
By Nurit Yohanan and Noam Lehmann
Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, August 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
August 16, 2026, 10:23 pm
Pope calls to end violence against West Bank Palestinians as settler attacks surge
Amid siege in Qusra, Pope Leo XIV slams ‘repeated violence’ against Palestinian civilians, urges international community to ‘take action’ towards two-state solution
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Residents in Khirbet a-Tuba in the West Bank's South Hebron Hills attempt to douse flames after extremist settlers allegedly set fire to several homes and attacked people, August 6, 2026 (Screenshots/Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 6, 2026, 1:47 pm
Settlers torch West Bank homes, attack Palestinians, injuring several; police probing
Some residents suffer from smoke inhalation; others, including 6-year-old, injured with sticks, stones; army condemns incident, says assailants fled before troops arrived
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP)
August 5, 2026, 8:23 am
Defense claims US effort to deport Palestinian mosque head based on forced confession in Israel
US says Salah Sarsour was convicted decades ago of throwing firebombs, lied on immigration form; defense lawyers charge conviction result of torture, does not stand up to scrutiny
By AP
Israeli settlers carry cardboard boxes from a building under construction in the Palestinian village of Tell, in the West Bank, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
July 31, 2026, 8:30 pm
Palestinian shot by troops amid clash with settlers near Tell, week after deadly gunfight
IDF says it opened fire on stone thrower, as settlers hold march through West Bank’s Area A in memory of two Israelis killed last week; some vandalize cemetery in Nablus area
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP
Palestinian motorists queue at a gas station while the city is experiencing a severe fuel shortage following the Israel Iran conflict, in Ramallah June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
July 30, 2026, 10:51 pm
West Bank fuel shortage strands Palestinians at pump with economy running on empty
Cash liquidity crunch and fiscal strains, some stemming from PA’s reliance on Israeli shekel, seen as driving petrol scarcity, leading to long gas lines and illicit ‘black gold’ sales
By Nurit Yohanan
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