Palestinian municipal elections have taken place over the weekend for the first time since 2012, with ballots cast to elect 145 local councils. The elections went ahead in the West Bank after disagreement between Fatah and Hamas, the ruling administrative body in the Gaza Strip, resulting in Fatah running virtually...

Israeli defense officials have warned that Hamas is planning a terrorist attack in the West Bank to avenge the killing of one of its former masterminds and convicted terrorist Mazen Faqha, who was murdered in March in what Hamas claims was a Mossad operation, the Hebrew daily Israel Hayom reported...

Hamas will engage in “resistance” in order “to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948” with “no negotiations,” a co-founder of the terrorist group Hamas asserted, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Mahmoud al-Zahar, still a top official of Hamas, made his comments at a press conference...

The council of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world’s governing body of soccer, has deferred, for now, taking action on a Palestinian resolution that would penalize Israel for having teams in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Tuesday. Since 2015, the Palestinians have been pressuring FIFA to take...

Palestinian leaders are responsible for a lack of effective leadership and culture of corruption resulting in an endless cycle of violence and suffering, a leading Palestinian human rights activist has warned. Bassem Eid, the founder and former director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, wrote Monday in an op-ed...

Hamas has announced a new leader of its Qatar-based wing, in a significant win for the Gaza-based faction of the group. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ former leader in the Gaza Strip, will replace Hamas’ current leader Khaled Mashaal who lives in exile in Qatar, after he completed the maximum two terms...