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Pal unity govt talks ‘reach an impasse’

Talks to form a new unity government have “reached an impasse,” the head of a PLO-appointed committee leading the talks told Ma’an Sunday. Azzam al-Ahmad, who is also a member of Fatah’s central committee, said that a meeting had been scheduled with President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to address the[…]

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Palestinian unity government ‘resigns’

The Palestinian unity government formed last year in a bid to heal rifts between Hamas and president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party resigned on Wednesday, an official said. “Hamdallah handed his resignation to Abbas and Abbas ordered him to form a new government,” Nimr Hammad, an adviser to Abbas, told AFP,[…]

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PLO takes aim at Netanyahu’s ‘government of war’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing religious “government of war” is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, PLO officials said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the international stage. The PLO blasted Israel’s “extremist” cabinet, after Netanyahu announced a coalition government that gave him a slim parliamentary[…]

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PLO committee slams detention of Khalida Jarrar

The Palestinian Higher National Committee has lashed out against the “arbitrary decision” by Israeli military courts on Sunday to sentence Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Khalida Jarrar to six months’ administrative detention. In a statement released Tuesday, the PLO committee tasked with following developments at the International Criminal Court said[…]

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Israel voters chose ‘occupation’ not talks: PLO

The Palestinian leadership slammed the Israeli public on Wednesday for voting for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party, saying they had chosen “occupation and settlement building” over peace talks. “Israel chose the path of racism, occupation and settlement building, and did not choose the path of negotiations and[…]

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Abbas wants to move Arafat shrine to Jerusalem

President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday the shrine of late President Yasser Arafat wills be moved to Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, at the earliest possible opportunity. Abbas said during a ceremony opening Arafat’s museum in Ramallah that the late Palestinian leader deserves to “remain immortal in the hearts of our[…]

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Netanyahu has ‘lost touch with reality’, says PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organization said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in a U.N. speech on Monday. “Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. was a blatant manipulation of facts and attempted at misleading the[…]

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