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PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system

The draft constitution also called for the "right of return" for refugees, caring for families of "martyrs, prisoners, and exiles," and reaffirming the PLO's position as representing Palestinians.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya. The two Palestinian organizations have the same goal of Israel’s destruction but take different paths to get there, the writer says.

Between Hamas and Fatah: Different paths, same destination - opinion

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not pictured) meet at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, November 7, 2025.

Political games and a message to the West: Expert expects more mock democracy from PA elections

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, 2025.

Abbas announces Palestinian Parliament will hold election on November 1


Palestinian leadership ‘rebuffs' pressure to resume security coordination  

Palestinian governing bodies have decided to halt security coordination with Israel.

 Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 77th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US, September 23, 2022.

French mayor cancels Oslo Accords commemoration due to security fears

The conference was going to be titled: "Thirty years after the signing the Oslo Accords, a look at Palestine," according to French news magazine L'Express.

 Lyon mayor Gregory Doucet.

Even the PLO knows the Jews are indigenous to Israel - Opinion

PLO knew they could not erase history, so they chose instead to rewrite history.

A man enters the headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), in Ramallah September 10, 2018

PLO leaders to discuss Ben-Gvir's visit to the Temple Mount

The Palestinians, Jordan and other Arab countries have strongly condemned the visit, dubbing it a "dangerous and unprecedented provocation."

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Temple Mount on Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Yasser Arafat thought Mahmoud Abbas was plotting to get rid of him - leaks

The documents consist mostly of the testimonies of senior Palestinian officials who appeared before the special commission set up by the PA to investigate the circumstances around Arafat's death

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures beneath a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Palestinian Authority arrests activists for demanding reforms, elections

PA security officers arrested two prominent activists, Omar Assaf and Bashar al-Takrouri, and confiscated the mobile phone of another activist, Jamileh Abed.

 Members of the Palestinian security forces clash with demonstrators during a protest organised by Hizb-ut Tahrir against what organisers say are political arrests by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank city of Hebron February 25, 2017.

Palestinians: Election results show no peace partner in Israel

PA prime minister: The rise of religious right-wing parties in Israel's elections “is a natural result of the growing extremism and racism in Israeli society.”

 A Palestinian vendor reads news about Israeli elections in a newspaper, in Hebron in the West Bank November 2, 2022.

Israel-Palestinian conflict: No peace if PLO, Hamas don't change emblems

Anyone can see the radical difference between the values and aims of Israel and the PLO or Hamas expressed through their emblems.

 The Fatah/PLO logo appropriated by Hamas

Courts can make terror groups pay for their crimes - opinion

It has been a long and bloody history of lawsuits versus terrorism. Governments fostering terrorism need to be brought to justice.

President Isaac Herzog and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lay wreaths in memory of the victims of the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, on the anniversary last month.

Israel says it will fight Booking.com over planned safety warning on West Bank listings

A senior Palestinian official welcomed the move, provided it applied to Jewish settlements only.