PA President to Visit Turkey on Saturday Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will visit Turkey at the weekend for talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, AFP quoted a Palestinian official as saying on Wednesday. Abbas will also meet Turkish President... (Continue reading)
Palestinians are expected to hold a general strike and observe a day of mourning following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail due to lack of medical attention. People across the Palestinian territories will join the strike... (Continue reading)
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday he hoped to establish “peace talks” with the Zionist entity later this year while admitting that the chances for progress were slim. Abbas said during a visit to Moscow... (Continue reading)
Former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert said Mahmoud Abbas’s position on the right of return was not new and tabled in negotiation rooms. Olmert told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the Israeli negotiators including the current premier Benjamin Netanyahu know that it... (Continue reading)
Israeli president Shimon Peres hailed de facto president Mahmoud Abbas over the phone and thanked him for his latest remarks about the right of return and the popular uprising against Israel. The official news agency of the Palestinian authority confirmed... (Continue reading)
The PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday met a delegation of Israeli political and security officials and formers officials at his office in Ramallah. The delegation included Ephraim Sneh, Shlomo Gazit, Eival Gilady. Yaser Abed Rabbu and Saeb Urikat, from... (Continue reading)
Head of the Ramallah Authority Mahmoud Abbas signed the new American formula for the resumption of the negotiation process with the Israeli occupation, Hebrew press sources revealed. Harvard jurist and well-known Israel advocate Professor Alan Dershowitz has secured Palestinian President... (Continue reading)
The Islamic Jihad Movement condemned the latest remarks made by de facto president Mahmoud Abbas in which he defended his negotiation option and peace process with the Israeli occupation state. Senior Islamic Jihad official Khader Habib said in a press... (Continue reading)
Leaders of Hamas and Fatah Khaled Mishaal and Mahmoud Abbas are to meet in Cairo on 20 June to finalize the unity government’s line-up, officials of both factions said. The announcement was made in an Egyptian intelligence statement on Wednesday... (Continue reading)
On the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s declaration of a Palestinian state, as well as the commemoration of the 7th anniversary of Arafat’s death; acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas delivered a televised speech to the thousands of... (Continue reading)