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Abu Mazen received the draft provisional constitution of the 'State of Palestine', a document intended to lay a ...

PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ office blasts Minister Strock after she says the Gaza Strip is part of the Land of Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas conveyed his gratitude to Türkiye and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for their support for the ...

US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the on-again, off-again, on-again US-Iran nuclear talks and a potentially sidelined role for ...

On the day it did, Israel allowed just five patients and seven relatives to leave (around 20,000 Gazans need urgent medical treatment abroad). Of the 50 people registered to return to Gaza that day, ...

RAMALLAH — President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that elections to the Palestinian National Council (PNC) will be held on November 1, the official Wafa news agency reported.This would be the first ...

Hayya, Hamas's chief negotiator, during a meeting with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish delegations prior to the announcement of a Gaza cease-fire agreement, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 8, 2025.

In From Neutrality to Bias: Wikipedia’s Quiet War on Israel, I described how Wikipedia was once celebrated as humanity’s ...

Experts say vote called by President Mahmoud Abbas would be welcome, but doubt whether polling will go ahead or galvanise ...

People will be allowed to vote for parliamentary candidates for first time ...

It’s now 20 years since Hamas won a majority of the Palestinian vote on Jan. 25, 2006. Whereas the bulk of the Hamas vote was in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas won the vote on ...