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PA supports Hamas disarmament, 'no room for Gaza militias,' Fatah leader tells 'Post' - exclusive

"The issue of disarmament should be discussed and agreed upon by Palestinian factions under the auspices of Arab states, especially Egypt," said the Fatah leader.

Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.
A US marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet taxis on the tarmac past US Marine Corps F-35 fighter jets parked at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday. Selling F-35s to Qatar would be a bad idea, the writer says.

Selling F-35s to Qatar is a risk the US does not need to take - opinion

 A construction site of a new residential neighborhood at the mixed religious-secular Jewish settlement in the West Bank Kfar Adumim, March 9, 2023.

Smotrich approves hundreds of housing units in multiple West Bank settlements

Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers


New PA government has a long road ahead to prove they're serious - editorial

The PA is also said to be in the final stages of talks with the administration about reforming its controversial welfare policy, which includes the infamous "pay for slay" program.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in Ramallah, in the West Bank March 14, 2024

Saudi foreign minister in Cairo for talks on Palestinian territories

The ministers met with PLO official to discuss Israel-Hamas war ceasefire, and further discussed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken walks with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan during a visit to Riyadh, in June.

Red Cross denies NGO's claim it's involved in terror 'pay-for-slay' policy

New Palestinian Media Watch expose quoted PLO Prisoner Affairs Authority chief, who described the Red Cross as “an essential partner in the process that enables payment to imprisoned Palestinians."

A Red Cross vehicle carrying hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, arrives at the Rafah border, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 28, 2023.

Former PA PM says two-state solution still possible - interview

Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, said that a two-state solution should be based on a sovereign Palestinian state on the territory occupied in 1967.

 THEN-US president Barack Obama watches a cultural event alongside then-Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah, in 2013.

'Normalizing the occupation': PLO calls for boycott against Arab-Israeli list in local elections

"The participation of a Palestinian list in the occupation's municipal elections in Jerusalem is a shameless normalization that serves the plans of the occupation," read the announcement.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, West Bank May 11, 2020

Moscow to host PLO-Hamas unity talks on Feb. 26, Palestinian PM says

“Russia has invited all Palestinian factions who will be meeting on the 26th of this month in Moscow,” Shtayyeh told the Munich Security Conference during a public interview.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks as he visits after Israeli settlers' rampage in Hawara in the West Bank, March 1, 2023

Agreeing to a peace deal with Israel negates the existence of the PLO - opinion

Is the PA prepared to reinvent itself as a genuinely peaceful body? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that it is not.

 THE PA city of Tulkarm in the West Bank: Is the PA prepared to reinvent itself as a genuinely peaceful body? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that it is not, the writer argues.

Hamas could join PA in new Gaza government, support two-state solution - report

In contradiction to a slew of previous public comments, Hamas reportedly is receptive to joining the PA on should there be a two-state solution on the political horizon.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) talks with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The heart of Gaza’s terror problem - opinion

Don’t expect the UN to make these organizations work with the institutions of the West. They have always been the heart of the problem in the Middle East – not the solution.

 THOMAS WHITE, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, speaks to the media in the central Gaza Strip, in November. UNRWA was tailor-made by the UN to keep the Palestinian refugee issue alive, not to fix the problem, the writer asserts.

Palestinian Authority panics, official calls to reverse UNRWA funding cut

UNRWA workers were recently fired from their positions for participating in the October 7 Massacre, leading to several countries deciding to withdraw funding for UNRWA.

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh speaks to The Media Line in his office in Ramallah.