Ministerial Liaison to the Knesset and Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem denied in the Knesset plenum that there had been an agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in which the former made promises to the latter in exchange for his decision to remain in the government. Amsalem’s statement appeared … Read more
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) took jabs at each other in official statements on Saturday, with Hamas accusing the PA of trying to kill its members and the PA stressing it would not allow the terror group to “reproduce its activities in the West Bank.” Hamas leader Abdul Rahman Shadid condemned the PA … Read more
Hamas on Friday accused the Palestinian Authority of “shedding Palestinian blood” and claimed that it was responsible for the deaths of 19 Palestinian “martyrs” since the initiation of the “Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa,” the Hamas name for the October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel. Calling for Palestinians in the West Bank … Read more
“The battle in the 1967 occupied lands is open in all means… but not at the expense of the Palestinian Authority,” said Jibril Rajoub, former head of the PA’s preventive security forces and current president of the Palestinian Football Association. Rajoub spoke last week, at a time when the PA is in a tight … Read more
The IDF killed a Palestinian as troops returned fire on terrorists after they attacked Israeli forces with improvised explosives, Molotov cocktails, and stones, as well as fired fireworks at them during counterterrorism operations in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Ynet reported on Saturday, citing the IDF. “The forces fired at the … Read more
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a UN aid agency for Palestinians shrouded in controversy, may be preparing to close for good, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing UN officials. The agency, which works throughout the Middle East, has been embroiled in controversy after it was discovered that several of … Read more
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday, January 1, temporarily suspended all operations of Qatari television Al Jazeera in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Wafa News Agency reported. This move is attributed to Al-Jazeera’s “violation of the laws and regulations in Palestine” and its “insistence on broadcasting inciting materials and reports characterized by misinformation, incitement, and … Read more
The Palestinian Authority’s security forces claimed “outlaws” killed 22-year-old Palestinian journalism student Shatha al-Sabbagh, denying Sabbagh’s family’s accusations against the security forces, according to multiple Sunday media reports. Ynet reported that Sabbagh was killed in Jenin, where deadly clashes have broken out between Palestinian Authority forces and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups … Read more
Hamas called on all components of Palestinian society to mobilize in order to confront the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) “unprecedented” level of “aggression” against it and other terror groups in the West Bank, the terror group confirmed in a Friday press release. In the statement, Hamas accused PA security forces of brutally coercing the Palestinian … Read more
Jerusalem: Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have detained at least 12,100 Palestinians, including 795 children and 440 women in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the Israel and Hamas war on October 7, 2023. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that a majority of the arrests took place in the governorates of al-Khalil … Read more
