Palestinian Leadership

A number of prominent Palestinian human rights organizations prepared a joint statement they intended to read at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. However, that was before the...

A senior member of Fatah's Central Committee has confirmed that the Palestinian leadership rejects any proposals for political solutions which are not based on a complete cessation of settlement...

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...

Israel's occupation forces launched this week an aggressive campaign of arrests targeting a number of Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, particularly members of the Change and Reform Bloc...

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Council has said that the movement has appealed to the Egyptian leadership, urging it take a decisive stance on the latest...

Informed sources in Palestine have revealed that disagreements have arisen between the Swiss and French, on one side, and Palestinian security and medical teams on the other, regarding the...

The Palestinian leadership and Ministry of Finance have frozen the budgets of all of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's factions, led by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....

A former senior Palestinian security official has revealed that around 25 per cent of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are there as a direct result of collaboration between the...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip and called for a permanent and comprehensive truce that would guarantee security and stability for the people...

A senior member of the executive committee of the PLO has called a statement made by Israel's first Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz an "unfounded red herring". Saeb Erekat...

Media sources are reporting that jailed Fatah leader Marwan Al-Barghouti has called on the Palestinian leadership to end all forms of economic and security coordination with Israel. In a...

The Palestinian Authority has denied reports which claim that Jordan is putting pressure on President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks with Israel. Five rounds of talks were held last...

A senior member of the Central Committee of Fatah has said that the next meeting of the Arab Follow-up Committee will be told by the Palestinian leadership that there...

A senior Palestinian official has warned that the collapse of the Palestinian Authority is imminent thanks to Israeli and US sanctions imposed in the wake of the UN decision...

The Palestinian Authority has called for the killers of Khalil Al-Wazir to be brought to justice. Known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad, Al-Wazir was assassinated 25 years...

A leading member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has accused Canada of violating International law. Senior negotiator Saeb Erekat said that a meeting held by Foreign Minister John Baird...

An Israeli lawyer, Mordechai Tzivin, has filed charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Abbas and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the grounds of committing crimes...

The prominent member of Fatah's Central Committee, Marwan al-Barghouti, has stated that Israel's settlement activities are endangering the future of the entire region. Nevertheless, these colonising policies are not...

The London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper on Monday quoted its correspondent in Ramallah, Waleed Awad, as saying, "While US president Barak Obama is attempting to end his second term...

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, has described the heads of local municipalities who participated in meetings with their Israeli counterparts in Rome as "a bunch of outlaws". A...

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – announced on Tuesday the re-election of Mr Khaled Meshaal as head of its political bureau for the next four years, a briefed...

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...

Veteran PLO official Hanan Ashrawi has stressed that the rights of the Palestinian people are inalienable, and the right of return is at the top of those rights. Citing...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested parliamentarian Mohammed Abu Tair at his home in Ramallah. He is a Palestinian Jerusalemite who was deported to Ramallah by the Israelis in October...

The deputy head of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmed Bahar stressed that behind the Israeli campaign of arresting Palestinian MPs and leaders Israel aims to isolate them from their...

A leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has demanded an urgent meeting of the Fatah Central Council to hold Mahmoud Abbas and the...

Israeli sources have revealed that the dismissed Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan suing the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, accusing him of violating human rights. Dahlan hired a law firm...

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...

Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians and injured 15 others during a pre-dawn raid on Monday in Qalandiya refugee camp north of occupied Jerusalem. Local medical sources said that...

Dr. Nabil Shaath, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, has declared that the on going negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel is not progressing and warns if the...

PHOTOS To mark the second anniversary of the prisoners swap reached between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation in 2011, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivered a speech...

A senior Fatah leader in the Ain El Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was shot dead on Friday evening. A Palestinian source in the camp said that unknown...