Tag: Palestinian Authority
Trump administration released tens of millions in aid to Palestinians
The Trump administration quietly released tens of millions of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority recently that had been frozen as part of a review process.
The foreign aid, which totals roughly $61 million, is...
Abbas adviser: Israeli Knesset members on Temple Mount equals ‘Zionist ISIS-ism’
Mahmoud al-Habbash, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ adviser on religious affairs, told the official P.A. daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida this month that the presence of Jewish Israeli Knesset members in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount “defiles”...
PA leader Abbas declares: ‘We’ll never stop paying martyrs and prisoners’
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Monday that he would not cut payments to families of terrorists despite an Israeli law punishing his government for doing so.
“We will never stop paying the families...
Despite Palestinian ire, 2,000 Jews march around Old City Jerusalem for Tisha B’Av
Some 2,000 people took part in the Women in Green organization’s 24th annual “Walk Around the Old City,” in honor of the Tisha B’Av holiday on Sunday, despite calls on the international community by...
A failure at state-building, Hamas sticks to military build-up in Gaza
Tensions between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip remain high, following a period when Gazan terror factions fired large numbers of projectiles at southern Israeli regions, drawing return Israeli airstrikes. Mass arson attacks...
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‘Spit on Australia,’ says Abbas’s adviser on foreign affairs
Following Australia’s decision to suspend direct funding to the Palestinian Authority because it pays salaries to terrorists and their families, senior P.A. official Nabil Shaath, who is also an adviser to P.A. leader Mahmoud...
PA TV calls terrorists who helped murder two Israeli soldiers in 2000 ‘heroic’
In October 2000, two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, accidentally entered Ramallah. They were lynched by a Palestinian mob who brutally murdered them and mutilated their bodies. Many remember the following...
Israel assigns task force to enforce new law aiming to slash PA terror payments
A new task force to track the payments the Palestinian Authority makes to convicted terrorists and their families was established by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday, just one day after the Knesset passed...
Read like a murderer: PA honors killer of three as role model to encourage...
On Oct. 13, 2015, Palestinian terrorists Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem boarded a bus in Jerusalem and attacked passengers with a gun and a knife, murdering three people. Alyan was shot and killed by...
US envoy slams Palestinian leadership for ‘hypocrisy’
Middle East peace envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump Jason Greenblatt slammed the Palestinians for “hypocrisy” on Thursday, following accusations by a Palestinian Authority official that American efforts to ease a humanitarian crisis in...