Mahmoud Abbas

The London-based Al Hayat newspaper has reported that the Palestine issue will return to the UN Security Council based on an agreement with EU countries to change the formula...

The head of the Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas, has asked the international community to allow Palestinians fleeing from their refugee camps in Syria to enter the Occupied Palestinian...

A statement issued by a Palestinian research centre on Monday said that if elections were to take place in the Palestinian territories, Palestinians were noticeably more willing to vote...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has condemned the Syrian army's attack on Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus. A spokesman called on all sides of the...

Israel has complained to the United States about what it alleges is "weak" security coordination with the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This vulnerability is, claim the Israelis,...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has held a 25th anniversary commemoration rally in Nablus. An estimated 10,000 people took part in the first such event since 2007 organised by Hamas...

Mahmoud Abbas has suggested that Palestine could approach the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the issue of Israel's plans to build 3,000 settlement housing units in the occupied West...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the international community for criticising his government's settlement policy but keeping quiet over the Palestinian President's efforts to reconcile with Hamas. Speaking...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has criticised his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, for not negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday. Speaking at a business convention,...

Reports from Israel claim that opposition leader Shaul Mofaz has expressed regret over the fact that Israel did not assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal during his first visit to...

Jordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Ramallah on Thursday for an official visit to Ramallah. His is the first visit of an Arab leader since Palestine gained non-member observer...

The Algerian Foreign Minister has challenged the international community to stop Israel's "scorched earth" policy against the Palestinians. Mourad Medelci was speaking out on the International Day of Solidarity...

Dr Nabil Al Arabi, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, confirmed that upgrading the status of Palestine in the United Nations will prove the historical rights of the...

On Wednesday, Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, met Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Cairo. Both presidents met on the margins of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic...

President Mahmoud Abbas has called for international intervention to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The Palestinian Authority head said that the Israelis...

A Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Ismail Al Ashqar, has proposed the public broadcast of reconciliation talks with Fatah so the people would see who is...

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, issued a statement on Tuesday evening expressing deep concern about the "deteriorating situation" of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger-strike in Israeli prisons. Ban Ki-Moon...

Israeli media reports claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to the President of the Palestinian Authority calling on him "to take the necessary measures to calm down...

A Palestinian newspaper has reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) decided on Monday to take the Israeli occupation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against Palestinians in...

Palestinian Interior Minister in Gaza, Fathi Hammad, arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday in an official visit to the Turkish Interior Ministry. The purpose of Hammad's visit was primarily to...

A Palestinian senior official close to the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said that Abbas and members of the Palestinian leadership are disappointed with the futility of US secretary...

The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Hamas – denounced on Sunday the American call on Turkish Prime Minister Recpep Tayyip Erdogan to postpone his visit to the Gaza...

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 US Ambassador to Israel has claimed that Secretary of State John Kerry has met Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas three times but has failed to make any significant...

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...

The resignation of the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister in Ramallah, Salam Fayyad, has attracted much attention within the Israeli media. On the whole, the various media outlets have given...

Despite US and European pressure, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted the resignation of his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The president has asked Fayyad to continue in the...

President Mahmoud Abbas is facing massive American and European pressure to change his mind over accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, which has coincided with US efforts...

Reports from occupied Palestine claim that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has offered his ministerial council's resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas. The move, it is alleged by "informed sources", comes...

The US Secretary of State was not entirely successful in his contacts with the Palestinian and the Israeli leaderships regarding the resumption of the peace process, Israel's Maariv newspaper...

Israel's Economy and Commerce Minister has told the Canadian Foreign Minister that a future state of Palestine will not be based on the borders of 1967. Right-wing politician Naftali...