The Palestinian Authority has notified Israel that it will no longer pay for the electricity Israel supplies to Gaza, as the World Bank warned of power outages deepening a humanitarian crisis. The move could lead to a complete power shutdown in Hamas-ruled Gaza, and cut off medical services and water[…]
Arab leaders are convening near the Jordanian Dead Sea for the 28th annual summit of the Arab League, as the region faces distressing turmoil and political challenges. Sixteen heads of states out of the 22-member confederation of Arab countries are expected to attend Wednesday’s meeting, including Saudi Arabia’s King Salman,[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a special “Hope for Peace” prize at the Steiger Award ceremony in Germany on Saturday. The Steiger Award said on its website that it had chosen to hand the prize to Abbas as a “clear signal” vis-a-vis the stagnating Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In a speech during[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority cabinet ministers announced after their weekly meeting on Tuesday that the government will allocate one million liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip’s main power plant in light of the recent wave of freezing weather sweeping the territory. The fuel is intended to supply[…]
The second man in line for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency, Aziz Duwaik, was issued a 12-month prison sentence and a 6,000 shekel fine by an Israeli court near Ramallah on Monday. Duwaik, a senior Hamas member and speaker of the Palestinian Legisaltive Council (PLC) was arrested from his home[…]
The Palestinian Authority is providing new documents to the International Criminal Court to speed up a preliminary probe into possible Israeli war crimes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Malki said Monday.The probe, which was opened on Jan. 16 by ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, is not a full investigation but[…]
The Palestinian Authority has so far prevented the launch of a formal investigation into the alleged war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian factions during the 50-day Gaza war last July and August, according to officials at the International Criminal Court. In a confidential letter obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera’s[…]
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