The Latest Breaking News from Mahmoud Abbas

Chile is home to the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, making the community a political force.

A video supposedly showing an assassination attempt on Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has been circulating widely on X (formerly Twitter) since November 7. However, it turns out that the video actually shows a police drug raid on a refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank…

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is working hard to involve the Palestinian Authority in a resolution of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Despite having a significant security apparatus, a civil service and other trappings of a state, the weaknesses of the internationally recognised Palestinian leadership mean it may…

On the streets of the besieged strip, there appears to be little appetite for a Palestinian Authority government.

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In a televised address on Monday, UN chief Antonio Guterres said a ceasefire becomes “more urgent with every passing hour” as Israeli forces pounded the Hamas-held Gaza Strip after encircling the enclave's main city on Sunday. Hamas militants fired 16 rockets from Lebanon towards northern Israel, the Palestinian group's armed…

Huge explosions reported in Gaza Strip, and communities in northern Israel come under mortar and rocket fire from Hezbollah

More than 9,700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, according to the Hamas-run health ministry

In his strongest words in the 30-day war, Vermont senator demands end to killing of ‘innocent men, women and children’