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The succession fight is bound to be heated - and violent. Thu Apr 1, 2021 Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is now 85-years old; he is frail and largely dysfunctional, as is his Ramallah based Palestinian Authority (PA), which he has presided over since 2005. Abbas has also been chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. A third leadership position held by Abbas is that of the chairman of the Fatah (party and terror group at times). A majority of P...

Prominent Dahlan aide returns to Gaza Palestinian Rashed Abu Shbak (C), the head of preventive security in the Gaza Strip, walks out after the meeting of security commanders with Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan on 20 August 2003 at his office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. [Abid Katib/Getty Images] March 16, 2021 at 10:54 am Rashid Abu-Shbak, one of the most prominent aides of dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan, returned to the Gaza Strip after 14 years in exile, Palestinian media...

Some may recall the killing of Musa Arafat, Yasser Arafats cousin, before the Hamas takeover of Gaza.  The gangland-style assassination of General Musa Arafat – security advisor to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas and former head of PA Military Intelligence and the PA’s National Security forces in Gaza – on September 7, 2005, was another sign of the PA’s inability to impose law and order in the Palestinian areas since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. In...

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...

Published date: 18 February 2021 14:31 UTC | Last update: 4 weeks ago Both parties are going into the elections without an agreed vision for Palestine and a detailed plan for obtaining it A Palestinian member of Central Elections Commission displays an ID to a colleague as they check the work of the first Voter Information and Registration Centre in Gaza City on 10 February, 2021 (AFP) You can tell when elections are being planned in the occupied West...

February 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed a peace agreement with Israel, ending a six-year uprising against the Zionist states occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. The peace endeavour, backed by the international community, aimed to crack down on the Palestinian resistance, mainly that of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, which was formed in 1987 at the start of the First Intifada. When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was e...

January 26, 2021 at 11:52 am | Published in: Middle East, News, Palestine Former Palestinian security minister Mohammed Dahlan (L) and Yasser Arafats senior advisor Palestinian Nabil Abu Rudeina (C) chat during a meeting, 01 November 2004 in Paris [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images] January 26, 2021 at 11:52 am The Fatah movement has turned down a proposal made by the Democratic Reform Current, led by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan, to run on a joint list in the upcoming elections, t...

Follow Jan. 9, 2021 Radical left-wing activist Ezra Nawi, who was active in Palestinian causes and was termed a "public enemy" by circles on the right, died at the age of 69 on Saturday, just a few months after he was diagnosed with cancer. Nawi, a Jerusalemite by birth and a plumber by profession, viewed himself as a warrior for justice, and had no small share of legal troubles. He died the height of the trial against him, which followed an investigative report by the "Uvda" television program...

Commission on the Defence Forces Commission on the Defence Forces   Mr. Simon Coveney T.D.   Minister for Defence and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Simon Coveney T.D., has today announced Government approval for the establishment of an independent Commission on the Defence Forces. The Government also approved the Terms of Reference and the membership of the Commission. Today’s decision taken at Cabinet follows a commitment made in the Programme for Government to establish a Commission o...