Palestinian Affairs

Israel’s security cabinet announced on Tuesday that Israel will not deal with joint Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government unless Hamas gives up terror and accepts Israel’s right to exist. Israel’s demands are that Hamas, now a partner in the Palestinian government, accept the internationally endorsed Quartet principles for Israeli-Palestinian peace including a...

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Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas terror chief who masterminded the 2014 kidnapping and killing of 3 Israeli teens, said that Hamas has signed a reconciliation agreement with Fatah so that all Palestinian parties can “work together against the Zionist enterprise,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Under the agreement, the West Bank-based...

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Hamas has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s demand for disarmament and has vowed to hold onto its weapons to fight Israel. The terrorist group’s Politburo Chief, Ismail Haniyeh, said in an interview with Egyptian television that “there are two groups of weapons: There are the weapons of the government, the police...

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Commenting on the recent reconciliation talks between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, said that any Palestinian government must accept the Quartet principles and “commit to nonviolence” in an official statement released Monday on Twitter. “The United States stresses that any Palestinian...

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The Palestinian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council reacted in shock as a speaker accused them of being “the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people” on Tuesday. The speaker, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas leader, used the 90 seconds allotted to UN Watch, an NGO that...

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The three security guards killed on Tuesday’s terror attack were described by the Los Angeles Times as representing “nearly the full rainbow of Israeli society,” —one was an Israeli-Arab and the other two were Israelis, one of whom was of Ethiopian extraction—were buried later in the day. The funeral of Yousef...

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