Fatah Hamas reconciliation

Israeli couple returns to kibbutz ravaged by Hamas attack

Three months on, signs of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks remain everywhere in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

 Ayelet Khon and Shar Shnurman walk past the remains of a home that was destroyed following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, January 13, 2024
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adjusts his glasses as he listens during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021.

Palestinian rivals agree on elections to end dispute but doubts persist

Hamas deputy political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

PA’s Abbas, Hamas’s Haniyeh meet for first time in nearly six years

A demonstrator waves an Algerian flag

Algeria’s last chance saloon on Palestinian reconciliation


On chicken droppings and lame duck Obama’s plans for Israel

Israel is likely to be a prime victim of Obama’s last-stand aggressive foreign policies.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Barack Obama, March 2014.

Hamas has not authorized Abbas to negotiate with Israel, official says

Mahmoud Zahar says "Abbas does not speak on our behalf and we never accepted his [political] plan.”

SENIOR HAMAS LEADER Mahmoud Zahar (second right), appearing in public for the first time since the 50-day began, attends a rally in Gaza City celebrating the cease-fire that began yesterday evening.

Reinstatement of PA civil servants riles Hamas, threatens unity government

The new Palestinian government, headed by Rami Hamdallah, has refused to pay salaries to the Hamas civil servants.

Palestinian President Abbas meets with ministers of the unity government in Ramallah

Fatah official: Kidnapping of Israeli boys nothing but an Israeli 'play'

Abbas associate says story of abduction "full of contradictions"; claims Israel trying to foil Hamas-Fatah reconciliation.

Press conference in Gaza about kidnapped teens

Erekat: Israel preparing major settlement expansion, annexation

Chief PLO negotiator calls on international community to boycott settlement products, divest from companies involved in the “Israeli occupation.”

Saeb Erekat

US envoy pans Israeli approval of settlements in response to Palestinian unity gov't

Shapiro says US opposes announcement of thousands of new units over Green Line; attempts to allay Israeli concerns that US to work with Palestinian unity government: "We will not work with a gov't in which Hamas sits."

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro 521

Chief PLO negotiator: We’re preparing legal action against Israel

Erekat says Palestinians will meet Israeli punitive moves taken in response to new unity government with charges of war crimes.

Saeb Erekat

British foreign secretary joins European Union in praising Fatah-Hamas unity accord

William Hague calls unification of West Bank and Gaza, “A necessary condition for resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict.”

UK FOREIGN SECRETARY William Hague

Israel's response to PA unity gov't: Building 3,000 new units beyond Green Line

Announcement originally intended to accompany 4th prisoner release but delayed with the collapse of peace talks.

Construction in West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 29, 2014.

Israel warns it will hold Abbas accountable for Hamas

As Fatah-Hamas unity deal comes closer to completion, official in Jerusalem says PA president will be held responsible for any violence by the Islamist group against Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) shakes hands with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal in Doha May 5, 2014.