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Israeli police fired sound grenades to disperse Palestinians during confrontations on Sunday outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque where tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered for the Eid al-Adha holiday, witnesses said. A Palestinian ambulance service said that at least 14 Palestinians were taken to hospitals for treatment. Israel’s Kan public …

Tayseer Khaled , member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the politbureau of the Democratic Front of the Liberation of Palestine warned of the grave consequences of the Israeli government’s policy of dealing with Gaza Strip in  Security standards only  to continue economic sanctions …

Using all kinds of deception, Netanyahu cheats the International Community, and continues to build new settlements in the West Bank, and denies being old settlements, even though some of which are classified as random ones, and Netanyahu refuses to give them a town name fearing European and the international community’s …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), warned of the dangers to security and peace in the region and the world – due to $ 38 billion military aid …

The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement said that the Israeli army and its affiliated organs are not only involved in the crime of forging the Palestinian documents which prove their ownership of the land, but also confiscate and allocate those lands for settlement purposes. The Jerusalem …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, called on the Palestinian National Forces and civil society organizations to attend the public protest in Al Khan Al Ahmar village to prevent  …

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that the Palestinian people and its leadership have buried all plots against our national project and attempts to establish an alternative or local leadership as well as attempts to divide the Palestinian national ranks. “The PLO has always faced …

by Munshi Zubaer Haque While Israel continues to maintain a tough blockade on Gaza Strip in defiance of international law, there have been repeated notes of caution sounded from various quarters about an impending humanitarian collapse in this densely populated Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean coast. Ironically, even Israeli President …

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appears to have confirmed reports that the Trump administration has earmarked Abu Dis, a town adjacent to Jerusalem, as the capital of a future Palestinian state, during a speech to the PLO Central Council. “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the state of Palestine,” Abbas …

Less than a month ago the Palestinians’ top diplomat in Washington was telling me he thought President Trump might succeed at peacemaking where others had failed. In every meeting Trump confirmed he would “give his heart and soul” to this process, said Husam Zomlot, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) representative. …

The Latest on the status of the Palestinians’ office in Washington (all times local): 1:05 p.m. The Palestinians are threatening to cut off all communication with the Trump administration if it goes through with plans to shutter the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (sah-EEB’ EHR’-ih-kaht) …

THE LEVANT – The Palestine Liberation Organisation said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State group in a UN speech on Monday. “Netanyahu’s speech at the UN was a blatant manipulation of facts and attempted at misleading the audience through …

THE LEVANT –  The Palestinian leadership intends to seek a UN Security Council resolution setting a 3-year deadline for ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said Tuesday, September 2. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the leadership of the PLO, acknowledged at a …