Israel’s prime minister reassured the public on Tuesday that Israel is not looking for a military confrontation over Gaza, despite the ongoing dispute over the supply of energy to the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to clarify Israel’s position two days after the Security Cabinet took the decision...

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Rambam Medical Center in Haifa has received a large donation from a Palestinian Authority official who received life-saving care there, Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the anonymous benefactor, the donation is intended “to build peace through medicine.” The official decided to give tens of thousands of Israeli shekels to the Joseph Fishman...

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Palestinian Authority officials confirmed on Wednesday that they will continue paying salaries to terrorists and their families, contradicting an assertion by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the policy had been stopped. “There have been talks about making the payments in a different way, but not ending them,”...

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Israel’s security cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to agree to a request from the Palestinian Authority chairman to reduce the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip. The request from PA President Mahmoud Abbas is part of escalating tensions between his Fatah faction and Hamas, which runs Gaza. Hamas continues...

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Israel’s Finance Minister met the Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister in Ramallah on Wednesday to discuss how to advance economic cooperation. Moshe Kahlon met Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to discuss ways to implement the economic development plans in the West Bank that were approved by the Israeli security cabinet ahead...

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Hundreds of Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons ended their 40-day-long hunger strike on Saturday. The 834 prisoners still participating in the strike, down from 1,100 when the strike began, resumed eating over the weekend after an agreement was reached over their demand for a second family visit each month. The...

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The Secretary General of the United Nations and the Norwegian government slammed the Palestinian Authority for naming a women’s center built with their support after a notorious terrorist. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement on Sunday that naming the center after Dalal Mughrabi was “offensive”...

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The Palestinian Authority issued payments to terrorists and their families totaling more than $1 billion over a four year period, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The sum accounts for seven percent of the PA’s budget and is equivalent to 20 percent of the foreign aid the PA receives...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must stop inciting terror and paying families of terrorists and be encouraged to “pursue a new path” to peace, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) Monday. “If President Trump plans to use this gathering to help pave the way...

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The dean of a school system in the Gaza Strip who was appointed to his post by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to spread classic anti-Semitic libels on official PA television, Palestinian Media Watch reported Tuesday. Imad Hamato, who has long given classes on Islam on PA television, was appointed...

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