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The parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) began its first meeting yesterday in more than a decade in the occupied West Bank to replace leaders who have died. During the meeting in the West Bank's political capital of Ramallah, the...
Tags: Palestinian National Council, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmoud Abbas, PLO Executive Committee, palestinian president, Ramallah, West Bank, Fatah's Central Committee, Palestinian Authority, Fatah party
The results of the vote for the organisation's powerful central committee were still expected to be announced later in the day and will show whether Fatah the West's best hope for eventually delivering a peace deal with Israel has succeeded in reinvigorating...
Tags: Palestinian Fatah, Fatah party, West Bank Ever, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli
Abu Moataz has never been a member of the Islamist Hamas movement, but two years after their takeover of the Gaza Strip he happily patrols the streets in the uniform of their paramilitary police. "I have a wife and four children. I am a son of Fatah and...
Tags: Hamas Gaza, Islamic Hamas, Gaza Strip, Gaza City, Gaza Arab, Fatah party, Ismail Haneya, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, president mahmoud
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday swore in a new government comprised mainly of members of his Fatah Party, but without representation of his bitter rivals from the militant Islamic Hamas group. The move underlines the failure of attempts...
Tags: Hamas-Fatah, Palestinian Hamas, Hamas Islamist, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority, Press TV of Fatah, West Bank, Salam Fayyad, Fatah party
Abbas whose term in office ended in January said on Monday that he would swear in a new government that would include his rival Hamas within the next 48 hours. "We have decided to restructure the government, and within the next 48 hours the government...
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah party, president mahmoud, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Israeli
The Homesh First Movement is expected to announce Tuesday that settlement groups are planning to return to settlements in Gush Katif evacuated during the August 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip. The core settlement groups hope to return the minute...
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israelis, Jericho, gaza stripped, Hamas, Hilles, security forces, defense minister, Fatah party
The two leaders discussed the latest developments in the negotiations with Israel, the situation in the Gaza Strip and the dialogue initiative between the Palestinian factions. Last weekend, Hamas arrested 200 Fatah gunmen in the Gaza Strip as a result...
Tags: Hamas, Gaza Strip, Palestinian, Hebron, West Bank, Israel Security Agency, oral arrangements, palestinian leaders, Fatah Party, hamas militant
They are certainly the most battle-tested, having been called on to fight almost one war per decade since the 1948 rebirth of the Jewish state. Nonetheless, Israel's government under the leadership of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday appeared increasingly...
Tags: gaza, israel, truce, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Gaza City, Palestinian-Israeli, Fatah Party, Cairo, war