Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Dr. Saeb Erekat called for opening a fast international investigation into the crimes and massacres being committed by the Israeli occupation forces and the cessation of (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1434, Oct 19, 2013, SPA -- Palestinian pilgrims started arriving at Al-Karama Border Crossing today as all arrangements were meet to facilitate their entry through the crossing, Al-Karama Border Crossing Police said.
The crossing will (...)
Israeli forces Wednesday demolished three Palestinian private-owned houses in Al-Oja village, in the Jordan Valley, according to a correspondent of the State of Palestine News Agency "WAFA."
He said that the Israeli forces accompanied by a number of (...)
PLO Executive Committee Member Saeb Erekat Saturday called on US administration to Lift the ban imposed by the Congress on $200 million of US' financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.
During his meeting with Representative of the (...)
Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat stressed today that upgrading the status of Palestine at the United Nations from an observer to a non-member state does not contradict the peace process or the principle of two-state solution.
In a press (...)
The first battalion
of a Palestinian security force trained in Jordan under a U.S.
programme returned to the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
More than 600 members of Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas's National Security (...)
A quadripartite meeting, representing Palestine, Jordan, Japan and Israel will convened here later today primarily aiming to strengthening the Palestinian economy.
Palestinian sources said the meeting will be attended by Dr. Saeb Erekat, the (...)
Israel has promised solutions for many of the day-to-day concerns of Palestinians in Israeli-controlled areas, Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas said after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Abbas and Olmert met for three hours (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Thursday in the West Bank town of Jericho to discuss prospects for reviving Mideast peacemaking.
Rice is in the region accompanying U.S. President George W. (...)
Israel on Wednesday handed this quiet West Bank town to Palestinian security control,
Palestinian commanders said, ending a weeks-long impasse
over the removal of army roadblocks and giving a fresh
boost to Mideast peace-making.
Jericho is the (...)
Leading candidate Mahmoud Abbas received a loud and warm welcome in the West Bank town of Jericho in a campaign visit ahead of a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat, telling his backers that he will follow Arafat's policies.
About 4,000 (...)
Palestinians voted in municipal
elections Thursday, a warm-up for next month's presidential
ballot and the first time the ruling Fatah movement and the
Hamas group are competing for voter support.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, who (...)
