Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has quietly established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and may allow him to sideline Hamas in the event of a succession struggle.
The nine-member body, which will (...)
Israel continued large-scale arrests of
Palestinians Monday, including many Hamas members, as it searched for
three Israelis suspected to have been kidnapped in the West Bank, dpa reported.
A 20-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli soldiers in (...)
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday called on a Likud-led Israeli government to recognise previous peace agreements on the occupied territories, as Benjamin Netanyahu appeared set to become Israeli prime minister.
Netanyahu was asked on Friday to (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are to meet for a second time
this month for talks on final status issues, Palestinian sources said
Saturday, according to dpa.
The meeting to take place Sunday is to (...)
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continued their back-and-forth
arrests of top party leaders Friday, capping a week of detentions
sparked by a car explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed five (...)
Palestinians Thursday slammed statements by
presumptive Democratic party nominee for the United States Presidency
Barak Obama, touting Jerusalem as the "undivided" capital of Israel,
with Hamas calling them "irresponsible" and a senior (...)
Three people were killed in the Gaza Strip Friday in an exchange of gunfire between Fatah forces and militants, Palestinian police said, dpa reported.
The militants were members of the radical Popular Resistance Committees, a commander of which was (...)
The imprisoned Palestinian leader, Ahmed Sa'adat, and other men sought by Israel surrendered to Israeli troops Tuesday after a siege lasting several hours, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa).
Sa'adat and several of his followers reportedly (...)
Israeli air strikes killed seven Hamas militants in the first targeted killings in Gaza and the West Bank in months Friday, as a five-month-old ceasefire which had been crumbling since a suicide bombing Tuesday seemed to have collapsed, dpa (...)