The Latest Breaking News from Mahmoud Abbas

A top U.S. envoy says the United States agrees with Israel that the fight against Hamas will take months, but officials are discussing the timetable for scaling back from high-intensity combat to more precise ways of targeting the militant group’s leaders

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Human rights groups condemn Washington’s move as being ‘against humanity’

The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza overnight, residents say, as United Nations officials warn there are no safe places left in the besieged territory

Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week.

Israeli-Palestinian relations have been locked in a never-ending cycle of death, destruction and misery and the war in Gaza should be the last

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

In his first remarks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden affirmed the United States offered “rock solid and unwavering” support to Israel, “just as we have (done) from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its…

Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it?