Palestinian elections appear headed for delay amid Jerusalem dispute, Fatah infighting
The first Palestinian elections in 15 years appeared to be headed for a delay on Tuesday amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and...
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Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian leader Abbas meet, hope Biden revives peace process
Jordan’s King Abdullah met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will revive peace talks over...
Palestinian President Abbas hospital stay extended
By Ali Sawafta Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who officials said is being treated for a lung infection, will remain in hospital for an eighth...
Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews had been...
Abbas wins EU backing for Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem
The European Union’s foreign policy chief assured President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in Brussels on Monday that the EU supported his ambition to have...
Palestinian leader: Trump’s Jerusalem crime prevents peace role
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Muslim leaders on Wednesday that a US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a crime which showed that...
Abbas in Cairo, Istanbul to rally region over Jerusalem
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday intensified efforts to rally Middle Eastern countries against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, setting up talks with Arab leaders...
Hamas cedes Gaza border crossings to Palestinian authority
The Islamist group Hamas began ceding control of the Gaza Strip’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt to US-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday under an...
Palestinian president, Netanyahu shake hands at Peres funeral
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral on Friday of Shimon Peres, the...
Extreme Israeli government and Palestinian divisions bode ill for peace moves
By Farid Mirbagheri The visit last month of the former foreign minister of Palestine, Dr Nabeel A Shaath, who is now serving as the...
Biden says his family was near scene of Tel Aviv attack (Updated)
By Jeffrey Heller US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his wife Jill and their grandchildren were dining on a Tel Aviv beach when...
Palestinian girl, 13, shot dead after trying to stab Israeli guard -police
By Ali Sawafta A 13-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead on Saturday by an Israeli security guard she tried to stab at a settlement in...
Kerry to meet Netanyahu, Abbas on Palestinian-Israeli unrest this week
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Germany this week, followed by talks with...
Israel to build more settler homes
By Jeffrey Heller Israel announced on Thursday plans to build some 3,000 more settler homes in response to the inauguration of a Palestinian unity government formed...
Israel suspends peace talks after Palestinian unity bid
By Jeffrey Heller Israel on Thursday suspended US-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s unexpected unity pact with the rival Islamist Hamas group. The...
Hamas-Fatah announce reconciliation (Updated)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Noah Browning The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed on Wednesday to a unity pact, both sides announced in a joint news conference....
US urges Mid-East ‘reality check’
By Patrick Markey and Crispian Balmer US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday Washington was evaluating whether to continue its role in Middle East peace...
Kerry meets Netanyahu again in an effort to revive peace talks (Updated)
By Lesley Wroughton and Maayan Lubell Israel may impose a partial settlement freeze to keep US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians alive, an Israeli source close to the negotiations said...
Obama urges tough decisions in quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace
By Matt Spetalnick President Barack Obama told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday that it will require tough decisions and risks to achieve peace with Israel and said now is the...
Palestinian peace talks delegation resigns – Abbas
By Noah Browning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded...