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Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian Authority is the official governing body of the Palestinian territories and is recognized by all countries that recognize a Palestinian state.

Based in Ramallah, it is currently run by President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party. 

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 PA HEAD Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, last month. To rely on Abbas’s corrupt, impotent, poisonous, and terror-glorifying Palestinian Authority as a ruling alternative to Hamas would be insane, the writer argues.

Palestinian Authority fails to meet minimum fiscal transparency - US State Dept

 MKs discuss expediting conversions for those serving in the IDF during the ongoing war with Hamas, November 13, 2023.

20 MKs demand Netanyahu cancels new security co-op with Palestinian Authority

 An Israeli army battle tank moves at a position in the upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on November 1, 2023 amid increasing cross-border tensions between Hezbollah and Israel as fighting continues in the south with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 348?

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance on the day of the debate between Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 10, 2024. REUTER

JD Vance among Republican senators assailing UN ahead of anti-Israel draft resolution

United Nations General Assembly in New York

UNGA seeks to strip Israel of right to self-defense in Gaza, West Bank

Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine to the UN, Riyad Mansour attends a United Nations Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at the UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 4, 2024.

The Palestinian Authority's diplomatic war continues

 PALESTINIAN POLICE keep guard ahead of a visit by Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas to Jenin, in July. The streets of PA cities are policed by the Palestinian security forces, the writer points out.

Court rules: Palestinian Authority must compensate trio who thwarted terrorism against Israel

By BINI ASHKENAZI
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert and Nasser al-Qudwa explain two-state proposal

 IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank.

IDF: West Bank operations could last weeks senior officials say

 Security forces demolish buildings in two illegal outposts in the West Bank. August 26, 2024.

Border Police demolishes buildings in illegal outposts

By SHLOMI HELLER
 FOREIGN MINISTER Israel Katz is flanked by French and UK counterparts Stéphane Séjourné (right) and David Lammy in Jerusalem, earlier this month. Séjourné and Lammy were seen not wearing the yellow pin when meeting with Palestinian leaders.

British and French ministers remove hostage pins before PA meeting, accused of racism

By MOSHE PHILLIPS
 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament in Ankara, earlier this month. He is currently serving the 20th year of the four-year term to which he was elected in 2005

Abbas, the PLO and the PA actively promote the destruction of Israel

By MAURICE HIRSCH
 Delegates react to the voting results during the United Nations General Assembly vote on a draft resolution that would recognize the Palestinians as qualified to become a full UN member, in New York City, US May 10, 2024.

Palestinians to ask UN General Assembly to force Israeli withdrawal from West Bank

 THE PHILADELPHI CORRIDOR between Gaza and Egypt: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asserts that the issue of Philadelphi is not primarily a security issue, but a political-strategic one.

By caving on Philadelphi, Israel will always ultimately give into the enemy's demands

By PESACH WOLICKI
 Riots in the village of Jit in the West Bank. August 15, 2024.

There is no excuse for violence in the West Bank, on either side

 PA HEAD Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, last month. To rely on Abbas’s corrupt, impotent, poisonous, and terror-glorifying Palestinian Authority as a ruling alternative to Hamas would be insane, the writer argues.

Mahmoud Abbas plans to visit Gaza, Jerusalem

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures, as he attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly formed cabinet, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 31, 2024.

Russia's Putin to talk Middle East crisis with Palestinian President Abbas, Kremlin says

By REUTERS
 MOHAMMED DAHLAN sits in his office in Abu Dhabi, in 2016. Today, his international influence extends far and wide, the writer explains.

Mohammed Dahlan, Gaza's leader in waiting?