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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Aug. 22, 2015. (Flash90) When President Mahmoud Abbas announced last month that the Palestinian Authority will be holding national elections for the first time in nearly 15 years, it reignited much debate over whether such elections could indeed be meaningful. Given the context of a fragmented Palestinian political body operating under a military...

Doses were intended for thousands of Palestinian worshipers gathering for Friday prayers; Abbas said to refuse over concern about an Israeli show of authority in Al-Aqsa compound

150 shares Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israels Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israel. He is also a guest commentator on many different radio shows and current affairs programs on television. Until 2012, he was a reporter and commentator on Arab affairs for the Haaretz newspaper. He also lectures on modern Palestinian history at Tel Aviv University, and is currently writing a script for an action-drama series for the Israeli satellite Television...

Israel has approached Egypt with a request to mediate in a possible prisoner swap with the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group, Al Arabiya reported on Saturday. According to the report, Cairo earlier mediated in recent talks between the Gaza terrorists and Israel and urged Yerushalayim to allow concessions. Hamas, for

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46 shares Russian COVID vaccines delivered from the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to the Gaza Strip on February 17, 2021 (courtesy) Israeli authorities, after a two-day delay, transferred a consignment of Russian COVID-19 vaccines to Gaza on Wednesday following a formal request by the Palestinian Authority. “This morning, 1,000 Sputnik vaccines donated by Russia [to the Palestinian Authority] are being transferred from the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip, in accordance with ...

1,681 shares Illustrative: Palestinians arrive to receive their $100 financial aid as part of the aid allocated by Qatar to poor families, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 4, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) Israeli authorities continued to delay transferring a consignment of Russian COVID-19 vaccines to Gaza on Tuesday, despite a formal request by the Palestinian Authority to send the shipment from Ramallah to the coastal enclave. The Palestinian Authority Health Minist...

Palestinians walk in front of buildings destroyed by Israeli military forces in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Aug. 4, 2014. (Emad Nasser/Flash90) The decision released by the International Criminal Court last Friday, which confirmed it could look into suspected war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian groups in the occupied territories, may have been delivered by a panel of international judges, but it is very much an Israeli production. In the universe occupied by Prime Mi...

PA Health Ministry crew testing Arabs in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, January 14, 2021. IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue&White) are expected to approve in the coming days a request submitted by the Palestinian Authority for the transfer of tens of thousands of vaccine doses to the Gaza Strip, Walla reported Sunday. PA officials have contacted Israeli security and NSC officials for approval and assistance in transferring the packages they ...

The Israeli right wants Arabs at the polls — with one big condition Israeli politicians are scrambling for the votes of Arab citizens. But this love affair is driven by a colonial goal: erasing the communitys Palestinian identity. A Palestinian citizen of Israel takes part in a protest against annexation of thr West Bank, Tel Aviv, June 6, 2020. (Oren Ziv) A veritable “love blitz.” There is no better way to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent outreach to Palestinian citi...