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In another sign of increased tensions between Hamas and Fatah in light of the Palestinian Authority's controversial decision to abandon a vote at the UN Human Rights Council on the Goldstone Report, the Islamic movement on Sunday warned PA President Mahmoud...
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved a French request to allow Qatar to build a new hospital in the Gaza Strip, government officials said on Tuesday evening. French President Nicolas Sarkozy made the request when he met with Netanyahu at the...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday denounced the "atrocious and inhumane" repression by Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group. "The method used by Hamas is atrocious and inhumane. I do not know this small group...
Tags: Palestinian Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Hamas ministry of interior, Islamist Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza City, Palestinian Fatah, Palestinian Muslim, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Palestinians, Palestinian National Authority
In an interview with Press TV, the movement's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said the main obstacle on the way to reconciliation was external pressures that have impacted Fatah. The senior Hamas member recalled their efforts for solving the...
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BETHLEHEM: The Palestinian political party Fatah rejuvenated its leadership at its first congress in 20 years, ousting many of an "old guard" dominant under the late Yasser Arafat, initial results showed on Tuesday. But electing younger men to the Central...
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party elected a new generation of leaders at its first congress in 20 years, including a popular militant jailed in Israel, according to results on Tuesday. Marwan Barghuti, who is serving five life sentences...
Tags: Fatah congress, Fatah Congress, Palestinian Fatah, Israeli, Israel-U.S, Palestinians, Arab, Avigdor Lieberman, minister avigdor, Middle East
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...
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement renewed its charter for the first time since the launch of the Middle East peace process in 1991 but Israel reacted angrily on Sunday to its insistence on the right to resist...Israel reacted swiftly to...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction's first party congress for 20 years has been extended amid rows between rival camps. The meeting, which was originally scheduled to last three days, will go on for at least an extra day. Participants...
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BETHLEHEM: President Mahmoud Abbas opened his Fatah movement's first congress in 20 years on Tuesday, saying Palestinians sought peace with Israel but "resistance" would remain an option. "Although peace is our choice, we reserve the right to resistance,...
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