The Biden administration is seeking to provide financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA), as its officials warn that it is rapidly running out of cash. The US administration hopes that the PA will be able to govern Gaza when the war in Gaza is over, according to a report in The Wall Street … Read more
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas will discuss a new Palestinian unity government with the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, according to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday. Details are still scarce, but according to the report, this new government will be technocratic in nature and led by experts, rather than political. … Read more
Argentine president Javier Milei’s visit to Israel was widely covered in Arabic-speaking outlets, with many pointing to the fact that he arrived at Ben Gurion Airport aboard an Israeli El Al airplane and commenters denouncing his pledge to move his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital Jerusalem. Hamas wrote in an official … Read more
The Israeli Right and Center’s plan to grant power in the Gaza Strip to local Gazan groups once Hamas is defeated is “unrealistic” and “negligent,” and there is no alternative to eventually allowing the Palestinian Authority to administer the Strip, Labor MK Gilad Kariv said to The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Wednesday. … Read more
“As we speak, at least 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, half of them children, are starving, not because of a natural disaster or because of lack of generous assistance waiting at the border,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a UN event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of … Read more
