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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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 THE DEE family poses for a photo, in 2021.

Rabbi sues PA and Hamas for the murder of his wife and daughters

 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 president says he is ready to work with Trump towards 'comprehensive' peace

 Maurice Hirsch

The tax trap: how Israel’s tax money ends up funding the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay law

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) looks on as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023.

Netanyahu, Blinken discuss Gaza's governance, hostage deal in Jerusalem

 Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

Oct. 7 terror victims file NIS 1.75 billion lawsuit against PA, Hamas in landmark case

 Economist Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo listens to questions during his Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, DC, US, February 23, 2021

US Treasury official speaks to Palestinian Authority PM about economic stability

  IDF soldiers under the 91st Division conducted limited ground operations in southern Lebanon, October 10, 2024.

Israeli delegation to IPU blocks Palestinian clause calling for Israel to withdraw from Gaza, Leban

 PA President Mahmoud Abbas meets with then-Armenian president Armen Sarkissian in Bethlehem, in 2019. At a time like this, Armenia recognizing Palestine is a victory for terrorism, the writer maintains.

Armenia recognizes the State of Palestine

 Al Jazeera correspondent Laith Jaar

Al Jazeera condemns PA after reporter arrested, beaten in West Bank

 Bezalel Smotrich, Moshe Arbel, Nir Barkat.

No. 16: Bezalel Smotrich, Moshe Arbel, Nir Barkat: Israel's wartime political leaders

 Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon at the UN, September 24, 2024.

Danon to UNSC: PA's failure to control terror in West Bank shows it can't be trusted with Gaza

 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