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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

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Israeli soldiers and medics at the scene of a fatal terror stabbing next to the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, on September 16, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
June 21, 2025, 12:49 am
US Supreme Court unanimously rules that American terror victims can sue PA and PLO
Justices uphold 2019 law allowing US citizens harmed in attacks outside the United States to file lawsuits against the Palestinian entities
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein al-Sheikh, attends the 32nd PLO Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)
April 26, 2025, 9:22 pm
Top Abbas aide Hussein al-Sheikh tapped as first ever PLO vice president
Al-Sheikh, who is known for his close ties with Israel and US, gets boost in succession battle for control over the Palestinian Authority when its 89-year-old incumbent leader dies
By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)
April 25, 2025, 12:58 am
PLO creates position of vice president, seen as possible successor to Abbas
Unclear when or how position is to be filled; 89-year-old Palestinian Authority president to choose deputy from 15-member PLO executive committee
By AP and ToI Staff
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
April 2, 2025, 6:41 am
US Supreme Court hears case on whether American terror victims can sue PA and PLO
Majority of justices appear inclined to uphold law that would subject the Palestinian bodies to US jurisdiction if they paid relatives of terrorists who killed or hurt Americans
By AFP
Pope Francis prays before the 'Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,' upon its inauguration in the Paul VI Hall, during the private audience with donors of the nativity scene and the lighting of the Christmas tree ceremony at St Peter's Square, in the Paul-VI hall at the Vatican on December 7, 2024. (Andreas Solaro/ AFP)
December 11, 2024, 10:17 pm
Vatican nativity scene showing baby Jesus on a keffiyeh removed after backlash
When asked by Catholic media, the church does not offer a reason for taking down display created by Palestinian artists and dedicated by pope
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis prays before the 'Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,' upon its inauguration in the Paul VI Hall, during the private audience with donors of the nativity scene and the lighting of the Christmas tree ceremony at St Peter's Square, in the Paul-VI hall at the Vatican on December 7, 2024. (Andreas Solaro/ AFP)
December 8, 2024, 8:45 pm
Pope Francis inaugurates nativity scene in Vatican showing baby Jesus on keffiyeh
Pontiff, who recently called to investigate Israel for genocide, preaches end to all war, as he dedicates scene by Palestinian artists, to be displayed in Vatican’s Paul VI Hall
By ToI Staff
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
December 6, 2024, 10:59 pm
US Supreme Court to decide if PA, PLO can be sued in US over Mideast terror attacks
Hearing will settler long-running legal dispute over whether the 2 Palestinian authorities can be held responsible for the deaths of Americans in acts of terrorism
By Mark Sherman
Emergency services at the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Sixteen people were killed, and 130 injured. (Courtesy)
November 26, 2024, 4:33 pm
Court puts PA on the hook for huge sums in compensation, damages for terror attacks
Jerusalem District Court has ruled PA must pay NIS 46 million to heirs of 3 Sbarro bombing victims due to stipends it pays to terrorists; and hundreds more suits have been filed
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leads a prayer in memory of those killed in Gaza at the start of a Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah on October 17, 2024. (Wafa)
October 19, 2024, 1:55 am
Abbas’s PLO mourns ‘martyrdom’ of Hamas chief Sinwar, a ‘great national leader’
PA president’s Fatah also offers condolences to terror group; so does Turkish foreign minister as he hosts Hamas representatives
By ToI Staff and Agencies
(L-R) PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Mouldi Kefi, and Fatah's ex-Secretary General Farouk Kaddumi hold hands shortly after the Abbas's arrival in Tunis, Tunisia, November 10, 2011. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)
August 23, 2024, 3:40 pm
Farouk Kaddumi, Fatah hardliner who opposed Oslo Accords, dies in Amman at 93
Kaddumi was among Fatah’s founders, supported realignment with Hamas; he served as the faction’s head before fallout with Abbas, whom he accused of killing Arafat
By ToI Staff
Seen through a Palestinian flag, people rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2012. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)
April 3, 2024, 8:41 am
Palestinians officially relaunch bid to become United Nations member state
Palestine Liberation Organization seeks recognition as state from world body, which granted it observer status in 2012, but vote on application can be vetoed by US
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's Press Office (PPO) shows PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (L) presenting the resignation of his government to Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah on February 26, 2024. (Thaer GHANEM / PPO / AFP)
March 1, 2024, 6:16 pm
In Moscow talks, Hamas and Fatah vow to seek ‘unity of action’ on post-war Gaza
Representatives agree on future dialogue to bring terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad under the PLO umbrella
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)
January 27, 2024, 5:09 pm
UK, Finland, Italy join US in halt to UNRWA funds; Israel wants it replaced post-war
FM Katz accuses UN agency for Palestinians of ties to terrorists, after it sacks 12 staffers who allegedly participated in October 7 massacre; Hamas and PLO decry cuts
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)
August 30, 2023, 1:58 pm
‘Difficult deal’: Declassified protocols show Oslo Accords okayed with marked wariness
30 years later, key cabinet quotes reveal Rabin, Peres feared Palestinians wouldn’t forgo terror, weren’t giving enough for Israeli concessions; Rabin foreshadowed own assassination
By Michael Bachner
Flag draped coffins of slain Palestinians killed in Israeli raid are taken through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon on April 12, 1973, during the funeral procession. (AP Photo, File)
April 10, 2023, 3:41 pm
50 years after famed IDF raid, Lebanon still an Israeli-Palestinian battleground
Commando assault, led by Ehud Barak dressed as a woman, was part of a series of Israeli strikes to avenge Munich Olympic massacre and signaled a turning point for Beirut
By Agencies
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