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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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 SECURITY AND rescue personnel are at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, earlier this month. The attacker was a 14-year-old resident of Jerusalem.

Terrorists who perpetrate attacks are not who ‘experts’ say they are

By MOSHE PHILLIPS
 US President Joe Biden delivers his third State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 07 March 2024.

19 Senate Democrats call on Biden to make major step toward Palestinian state

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and National Unity Head Benny Gantz, Octover 12, 2023.

How a 'war' broke out between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

A Red Cross vehicle carrying hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, arrives at the Rafah border, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 28, 2023.

Red Cross denies NGO's claim it's involved in terror 'pay-for-slay' policy

 ARAB LEAGUE Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit meets with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, in 2020. Even in the Netanyahu era, Abbas thwarted attempts to resolve the conflict no fewer than three times, the writer states.

Netanyahu and Israel did not prop up Hamas

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

Israel FM, Palestinian Authority PM could be invited to Brussels as EU agrees to sanction settlers

  Humanitarian aid entering Gaza. March 14, 2024.

Is Israel cooperating with Fatah in Gaza?

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in Ramallah, in the West Bank March 14, 2024

Hamas lashes out at Abbas's 'unilateral' designation of new PM

 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.

Dozens of Palestinian Authority security personnel involved in terror, report finds

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in Ramallah, in the West Bank March 14, 2024

Mahmoud Abbas appoints new Palestinian Authority prime minister

By REUTERS
 Illustrative image of a court gavel.

Knesset passes law to help terror victims sue terrorist financiers

 Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference on February 29, 2024

Netanyahu slams Biden, calling accusation that he’s harming Israel 'false'

 HAMAS MEMBERS, along with various Palestinian factions, work to maintain order and control market prices amid the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, this week.

IDF testing how Palestinian clans could control Gaza's civilian affairs

 Tamir Pardo, Former Director of the Mossad attends a press conference at the protest tent of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel against the proposed changes to the legal system, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2023.

Hamas will continue to threaten Israel as long as it exists - ex-Mossad head

 THEN-US president Barack Obama watches a cultural event alongside then-Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah, in 2013.

Former PA PM says two-state solution still possible

By RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR