Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer of bilateral talks on Tuesday. “Time is short. Netanyahu is trying to buy time, but this time he will not escape the international community,” Hamdallah said in a meeting with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who was visiting...
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A recent poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip found that 95.5 percent believe that there is corruption the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The survey of 1,200 people, conducted by the independent Palestinian firm AWRAD, also found that 82 percent of Gazans believe...
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Hamas announced that it will carry out 13 public executions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, presenting a challenge to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who must approve all execution orders. The condemned prisoners have been charged with murder and robbery, although none have been accused of collaborating with Israel. Capital...
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increasingly fear that the ongoing construction of Hamas tunnels in residential areas means that their lives will be in danger if a future war breaks out between the terrorist group and Israel, The New York Times reported. One woman living by Gaza’s border with Israel said she believes a hidden tunnel entry...
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An umbrella group representing journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories slammed Hamas for its “thuggish behavior” towards reporters on Thursday night. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said a photographer for SIPA Press, Heidi Levine, was detained for over three hours by Hamas earlier on Thursday before being permitted to leave the Gaza Strip....
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As long as Palestinian leaders encourage children to hate Israel and glorify terrorists, “more violence is inevitable,” the son of terror victim Richard Lakin, who was killed in a terrorist attack last October, warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (Google link) Wednesday. Micah Lakin Avni recalled that his father was motivated by a commitment...
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