Palestinian Liberation Organization

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

PA's Mahmoud Abbas seeks to exclude Hamas from local election

US SPECIAL ENVOY to the Middle East Steve Witkoff: It is clear that the legitimization of Hamas as a serious and recognized negotiating partner is underway and perhaps has already been completed, the writer charges.

Gaza today is repeat of 1982 Beirut: Washington is legitimizing Hamas just like the PLO - opinion

Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1995) making an address, July 1974.

On This Day: Israeli former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated 30 years ago


PLO: Hamas is on board with a 2-state outcome and ‘peaceful’ resistance

But President Joe Biden and his officials have shown little appetite for reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Hadi Amr - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, 20 January 2021.

Son of slain ‘collaborator’ sentenced to death by Hamas

Shadi al-Sufi, 38, was found guilty of killing Jaber al-Qeeq, a former activist with the PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Palestinian militants of the National Resistance brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 28, 2016.

Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator, dies at 65 from COVID-19

He fought for peace, but never lived to see it

Former US president Bill Clinton meets with former Palestinian president Yassar Arafat and Saeb Erekat

Former prisoners employed by PA to bypass Israeli sanctions

Restrictions on financial institutions part of effort to ‘criminalize the Palestinian struggle,’ professor says.

A Palestinian prisoner, convicted of security offences against Israel, looks out of his cell at Nitzan jail

PLO leader: US Jerusalem passport decision erases Palestinians

"The US administration is ... recognizing other illegal Israeli actions, including the ethnic cleansing of West Jerusalem," Dr. Hanan Ashrawi said.

US passport [Illustrative]

Palestinians condemn ‘shameful’ Israel-Sudan accord

Sudan will be the third Arab nation to normalize ties with Israel.

Palestinians attend a protest against the reduction of the food basket provided by the United Nations for Palestinian Refugees in Khan Yunis on October 18, 2020.

PLO official lauds open letter penned by female leaders opposing annexation

"This letter highlights the power and global reach of our inter-sectional and joint struggle as women for these universal values in Palestine and around the world," she added.

Settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus, West Bank, June 11, 2020

PLO official condemns killing of alleged Palestinian ramming terrorist

Erekat was killed after trying to ram a Border Police checkpoint in Abu Dis near the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim on Tuesday.

Attempted ramming attack at the Kiosk Checkpoint near Ma'aleh Adumim, June 23, 2020

PLO official condemns construction plan of 'Silicon Wadi' in E. Jerusalem

The "Silicon Wadi" project joins the government's five-year plan to reduce socio-economic gaps and for economic development in east Jerusalem.

PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi

Revisiting of Sokolow v. PLO gives hope to victims’ families

The case, Sokolow v. PLO, has its roots in the bloody years of the Second Intifada – a terror wave that killed more than a thousand Israelis and dozens of Americans.

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