Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) on Wednesday told the Jerusalem Post that existing U.S. law is sufficient to curtail assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) should a government emerge drawing ministers from both the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions, as reportedly envisioned by a recently-announced unity agreement between the two...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), warned the Palestinian Authority that if it becomes a party to the ICC in order to pressure Israel, the decision could backfire. As reported in Ynet: When he was the court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo turned down a request...

In the wake of a meeting between Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal, the Foreign Ministry expressed its support for the recently concluded unity accord between Hamas and Fatah. The Foreign Ministry statement said: In the course of the meeting the main focus...

A top Hamas official declared over the weekend that the possibility of disarming the Iran-backed terror group never came up during unity discussions between it and the rival Fatah faction, a boast that seems set to widen concerns that the agreement – which among other things envisions a single Palestinian...

Outlets and journalists over the weekend and into Monday continued to unpack what the Washington Post bluntly described as the “failure” of Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace push, which had formally expired on April 29 but had functionally been suspended since the declaration of a unity agreement...

The U.S. and the United Kingdom reported the first cases of the camel-borne Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus on their respective territories over the last few days, and aim to clamp down before it spreads and possibly kills. There have been 300-400 reported cases thus far, with 100 deaths. America...