Fatah-Hamas

Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Makkah on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a...

He was sentenced to life in prison and she was sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms. He is affiliated to Fatah; she is a member of Hamas. Today, however,...

A Saudi newspaper has claimed that the military government in Cairo is communicating with Fatah and Hamas in an effort to save the reconciliation agreement that was signed between...

The Coalition of Independent Palestinian Figures has revealed that intensive correspondence is underway in an attempt to push for Palestinian national unity and ensure that the requirements of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The president of the European parliament, Jerzy Buzek crossed into the Gaza Strip today, via the Israeli Eretz crossing. He visited the Society for Deaf Children and...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli security forces have broken into the offices belonging to five elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Change and Reform Bloc in Nablus, ransacking...

Media sources in Palestine have claimed that violations against Palestinian journalists escalated in 2011. Such violations included attacks by Israeli security forces as well internal assaults on press freedom...

The Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau has slated Fatah for trying to postpone the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to Gaza next month, because it "gives...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is to ask Turkey's Prime Minister to delay his proposed visit to the Gaza Strip until internal reconciliation is achieved. A report in London-based...

Senior Fatah member Marwan Barghouti has called on the movement's head, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not to resume negotiations with the Israelis. Barghouti said that the results would...

Fatah Central Committee and Palestine National Council member Marwan Barghouti has accused the Palestinian Authority of not putting the issue of prisoners in Israeli jails as a priority in...

The eleven martyrs in Maroun el-Ras in southern Lebanon and the four in the occupied Golan Heights on May 15, 2011, were enough to turn the "Return to Palestine...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said that regarding Palestinian internal reconciliation, he "absolutely does not feel that the Egyptian position is closer to Hamas". "If I felt so, I...

Veteran Fatah politician Abdul Aziz Shahin, known by his kunya of Abu Ali, has passed away, aged 80. He died on Tuesday morning after spending weeks in Al-Shifa Hospital...

The new Palestinian government in Ramallah headed by academic Dr Rami Hamdallah was sworn in on Thursday. The new Prime Minister is very close to Fatah and has led...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted that there will be no peace with the Israeli occupation authorities without Jerusalem, nor can there be any stability in the region. In...

The Palestinian Bar Association (PBA) has announced that industrial action will take place on Monday and Tuesday in protest against an attack on one of their colleagues in Bethlehem....

The head of International Relations in the Islamic Resistance Movement has said that political arrests made by the Palestinian Authority against Hamas members do not reflect any serious intention...

Israeli jets bombed targets in the Gaza Strip overnight after rockets were fired from the besieged territory. Witnesses said that most of the targets were open spaces used as...

Hamas has put the blame for the rise in Israel's arrest of activists across the occupied West Bank on the visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry last...

Informed sources in Egypt have revealed that former Fatah thug Mohamed Dahlan is plotting a major conflict between Gaza and the Egyptian army. The Dubai-based Dahlan is being backed...

A senior Hamas official has blamed Fatah for the delay in national reconciliation. Mousa Abu Marzouk linked the lack of progress to US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts...

The armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, has exhibited its arsenal of guns, rockets and missiles in the Gaza Strip. This, reported Israel's Channel 2, illustrates the extent...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Hamas has unveiled documents proving that Fatah is directly responsible for the demonisation campaign by the Egyptian media against the Palestinian people. The documents, say Hamas, prove...

Deputy Hamas chief Mousa Abu-Marzouk has said that Egypt is not ready to host reconciliation talks; in any case, the decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks...

Security sources and eyewitnesses have revealed that the Egyptian army have detained a fugitive Palestinian who is an associate of ex-Fatah thug Mohamed Dahlan. Rassad news network said that...

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk has described the plans to go ahead with negotiations with the Israelis as "a farce". Talks about unity in Palestinian ranks, suggested the...

Senior Hamas official Salah Al-Bardawil has condemned the threat made by Fatah's Azzam Al-Ahmed that the Palestinian Authority could make "painful" decisions regarding Palestinian reconciliation. Dr Al-Bardawil said that...

Essam al-Da'ales, personal adviser to the prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, considered that the return of the Palestinian Authority (PA) president's guard to administer the Rafah crossing and...

A senior Palestinian official has said that he expects President Mahmoud Abbas to announce a date for legislative and presidential elections soon. The announcement will be made even though...

Fatah has rejected an offer from Hamas to participate in the government of the Gaza Strip. The offer was made by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. In response, Fatah said...

Rumours are rife about the possible actions that may be taken by the Palestinian Authority leadership against Hamas and the Gaza Strip within the context of the stalled reconciliation...