The United Kingdom has frozen roughly $30 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists, The Sun reported Friday. The move comes after an investigative report published in the Mail on Sunday in March and another released by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in June found that British aid money...

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An editorial in a major Saudi Arabian newspaper called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent invitation to address the Knesset, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The editors of the English-language Saudi Gazette said that Netanyahu’s overture, made at the United Nations last week, recalled the invitation then-Israeli Prime...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian man who was shot while attempting to stab Israeli Border Police officers, calling him a “martyr” in a condolence letter to his family this week. The attacker, Saeed Amro, approached the police officers with a knife at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 81, recently refused a request from four Arab states to name a successor because he will only pick someone who will preserve his sons’ business empire, longtime Arab affairs correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem wrote Wednesday for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Abbas rejected a request from Egypt, Jordan,...

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After several Israelis were wounded in series of Palestinian terrorist attacks on Friday, the Palestinian Authority condemned the killings of two assailants by Israeli security forces, calling them “a crime.” In the first of four incidents, a Jordanian man attempted to stab an Israeli Border Police office near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. The man...

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Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has nominated a man who murdered six Israelis to run for the Hebron City Council in (now-delayed) local elections, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday. “The number 2 candidate on the Fatah Movement list in the Hebron City...

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A Palestinian court on Thursday postponed next month’s local elections, the first large-scale elections in a decade, due to “procedural problems,” especially over questions of candidate eligibility and the participation of Jerusalem residents in the vote. “The administrative decision [i.e., the elections] must deal with the homeland as one unit, and with...

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Germany’s Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that German aid money is likely being used to provide funds to terrorists and their families, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “There are Palestinian institutions that issue payments to the families of those who were killed or injured, which includes family members of the perpetrators,” Maria Böhmer, a...

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Palestinians are growing increasingly outraged over the removal of women’s names and pictures from official lists of candidates competing in next month’s municipal elections, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Monday. Rather than publishing the female candidates’ names or photographs, Abu Toameh reported, “the electoral lists are using the terms ‘the...

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The Palestinian Authority and the terrorist group Hamas “are arresting, abusing, and criminally charging” journalists and activists who criticize them, leading to a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression in the Palestinian territories, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report released on Monday. “Both Palestinian governments, operating independently, have apparently arrived...

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