Palestinian Government

A member of Fatah's Executive Committee, Jamal Moheisen, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership is being exposed to "tremendous" pressure to accept the American initiative to...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The Federation of Public Transportation Sector (FPTS) in the Gaza Strip called on Wednesday for the UN and human rights organisations to put more pressure on the...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Tuesday for presidential, parliamentary and National Council elections as soon as possible to demonstrate commitment to national reconciliation. Speaking at...

Saffa News has published details of a "confidential document" which reveals that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah offered to sell Egypt the fuel donated by Qatar to operate Gaza's...

Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouthi has criticised the US-proposed framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, which more or less adopts the Israeli position on security, borders, Jerusalem and the...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh has taken several core decisions regarding the rival Fatah movement, paving the way for Palestinian national reconciliation. In a press...

The partners in Israel's Leviathan natural gas field have signed an unprecedented $1.2 billion agreement with the Palestine Power Generation Company, whereby the former will provide the latter with...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has evaluated the decisions taken by Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza regarding national reconciliation. Speaking to Mr Haniyeh by phone, President Abbas hailed the prime...

A foreign relations official from the Hamas-run government in Gaza has revealed that there are ongoing discussions with the Palestinian Authority about the formation of a national consensus government,...

Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat has criticised Israel's decision to build more than 1,800 new settlement units in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Erekat said...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has attributed Gaza's survival during the two massive Israeli wars of aggression and the strict Israeli siege to the "wise governing management, legendary persistence...

Local Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses are reporting that a group of Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli occupation army, intercepted on Tuesday morning the motorcade of the Palestinian Prime...

Citing what it described as an official source, the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Dustour, has published an account of how the Palestinian Authority colluded with the Egyptian media in the propaganda...

The United States announced yesterday that it will be providing $148 million in aid to support the Palestinian Authority's budget, which is experiencing a fiscal deficit worth $3.1 billion...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat revealed on Friday that the US president Barack Obama considers the Palestinian Authority's (PA) application to the UN for non-member state as crossing all...

Turkey's Prime Minister has said that lifting the siege of Gaza is one of the three conditions that his government has set for the revival of its relationship with...

Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Poland Areng has condemned the demand of US Secretary of State John Kerry that Recep Tayyip Erdogan postpone his visit to the Gaza Strip planned...

A British Member of the European Parliament has quizzed the EU Foreign Affairs chief over torture in prisons run by the Palestinian Authority. Phil Bennion MEP asked Cathy Ashton...

The Sunday Times newspaper in the UK has obtained a draft report by the EU that underlines the concern that the Palestinian Authority has lost 2.5 billion euros in...

The Palestinian foreign ministry announced that the Palestinian Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Gamal Al-Gamal, has died following a blast that took place on Wednesday morning, the first day...

We Arabs have unwittingly fulfilled the dreams of the Zionists. We have regressed and become distracted with our own internal issues and foolish disputes within the borders of our...

US President Barack Obama will pay a visit to the Middle East next month. This will be his first trip to Israel in particular since his election in 2008...

The consensus on the Egyptian working paper for Palestinian reconciliation is an important step towards unity. The Fatah-Hamas agreement is certainly a great accomplishment by Egypt's military leadership because...

Open Letter on Middle East PolicyPalestinian Unity Is a Prerequisite for Peace with Israel A new Palestinian government is expected to be formed soon as a result of the...

Following a series of meetings held under Egyptian patronage and aimed at reviving the issue of reconciliation between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, Cairo has issued...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas surprised us by flying to Amman and signing an agreement that stipulates that Jordan's King Abdullah is the protector of the holy sites in Jerusalem...

Yasser Arafat's attempt to support the Aqsa Intifada in order to rebel against the terms of the Oslo Accords backfired. Far from ending the Palestinian Authority's role as a...

If Ismail Pasha brought foreign occupation onto Egypt after drowning it in debt, then what will Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas bring onto the Palestinians who are already under...

Cadet training at schools launched by the Ministry of Education in the Gaza Strip has faced much scrutiny, questioning and criticism by the Palestinian government in the West Bank....

The large controversy caused by Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's visit to Gaza as the chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars' delegation is not a new phenomenon in the...

The Palestinian Authority prime minister's recent resignation was sudden and without warning. But what made Rami Hamdallah pack his personal effects into a car and drive away from his...

If media leaks about Egypt's generals informing the Israeli government about the coup three days before it was executed are true, then the matter is more than a coup...