Palestinian Affairs

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday of ongoing efforts to incite tensions on the Temple Mount ahead of Passover. In his weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that Raed Salah, the leader of the recently banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was seeking to reignite tensions at the...

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At least three Hamas operatives were killed on Sunday when a tunnel collapsed in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media reports. The collapse was the twelfth reported this year as Hamas continues to rebuild its terror infrastructure in the aftermath of its 2014 war against Israel. Israel Radio reported last week...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has formed a new constitutional court that will have primacy over lower courts and further entrench his hold on power, Reuters reported on Monday. The court, which will be run by judges who are affiliated with Abbas’ political party Fatah, “risks deepening Palestinian political divisions,” according to critics. Its rulings...

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A Palestinian terrorist who killed three people, including an American-born peace activist, in an October 2015 terror attack was honored at a ceremony in a West Bank high school run by the Palestinian Authority last week. The program at the Shari’ah School for Boys in Qalqiliya, which was first reported by Palestinian Media Watch, honored terrorist...

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A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza approve of attacks against Israeli civilians and believe that an armed intifada would help them on the path to statehood, a recent poll has found. The survey, carried out by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and...

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The son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas owned nearly $1 million of shares in a company with deep ties to multiple sectors of the Palestinian economy, Haaretz reported Thursday. The newspaper based its reporting on the “Panama Papers,” the massive leak of documents belonging to the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which...

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