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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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 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY head Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly last month. The PA has actively supported and incentivized Palestinian terrorism, the writer charges.

Smotrich backs down as cabinet approves measures to prevent Palestinian Authority collapse

By YAKI ADAMKER , Walla!
A demonstrator waves Turkish and Palestinian flags during a protest to express support for Palestinians in Gaza, a day ahead of the anniversary of the October 7th attack, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 6, 2024.

Palestinian Authority seeks trade exclusion from Turkey's ban on Israel

Then interim President of the governing Palestinian Authority Rawhi Fattouh speaks to the media during a press conference November 20, 2004 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

PA head Mahmoud Abbas announces Rawhi Fattouh as successor

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin greets Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, last month.

Judea and Samaria’s future: What happens the day after Mahmoud Abbas?

 Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a press conference, in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2024.

Norway proposes millions in aid boost for PA, Lebanon, UNRWA in revised budget

A GAPING hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem after the suicide bombing that killed 15 people and wounded more than 80 others.

Court orders PA to compensate victims of 2001 Sbarro terror attack

 THE DEE family poses for a photo, in 2021.

Leo Dee sues Palestinian Authority, Hamas for loved ones' murders

 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