Palestinian Affairs

The United States officially downgraded its mission to the Palestinians on Monday by merging its Jerusalem consulate with the embassy to Israel, a move Palestinian officials have condemned, The Associated Press reported. The consulate had served as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians since the Oslo accords of 1993....

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Hamas praised a car-ramming attack that injured two Israeli soldiers, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. An IDF officer was seriously injured, and a border policeman received light injuries when they were rammed by a car during an arrest operation in the West Bank. The two had been conducting arrest raids in the...

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U.S. Envoy Greenblatt Slams Erakat for Disparaging Peace Efforts

Jason Greenblatt, the United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, on Thursday, slammed a senior Palestinian official for sabotaging the Trump administration’s peace initiative. Greenblatt wrote on Twitter that Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, had characterized efforts to broker a lasting peace deal between...

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Hamas-Led Riots

A United Nations report accusing the IDF of war crimes for its response to violent Hamas-led riots is marked by a “lack of expertise and muddled analysis,” a critique published Thursday by NGO Monitor assessed. The Jerusalem Post reported that the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry (COI) found that “IDF soldiers...

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Hamas Riots

Beginning on March 30, 2018 the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which is in complete political and military control of the Gaza Strip, launched weekly riots at the Gaza-Israeli border, an effort known as “The March of Return.” The IDF has now released a report detailing the environmental, material, and human...

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PA President Mahmoud Abbas

In response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to withhold the equivalent of what the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from tax receipts it collects, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will refuse all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, The Times of Israel...

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