The Latest Breaking News from Palestinian Authority

Israel can and will ignore US appeals to minimize casualties in Gaza

While the Biden administration has maintained its strong support of Israel’s war aim of eliminating Hamas in Gaza, that support has for weeks been tempered by statements from U.S. officials saying Israel needs to minimize deaths of civilians as it continues fighting.

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2023

Gulf states press for two-state roadmap after UN vote on Israel-Gaza war

UAE and Qatar say they will not again fund Gaza reconstruction without Israeli concession, as US isolation grows

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Top Palestinian diplomat urges Australia to back ceasefire in looming UN vote

Izzat Abdulhadi asks government not to abstain like it did in October vote, saying leadership is about principles even amid ‘huge risk’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2023

The daily, grinding violence in the West Bank is worse than ever before. Why does it go unseen?

The Israeli government is stripping away our freedoms – economic, physical, even the ability to celebrate, says health researcher Layth Hanbali

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2023

Clashes over fossil fuels, Gaza war at COP28 climate summit

Israel’s assault on Gaza resumes the day after the summit reaches an agreement over a long-sought rehabilitation fund.

Al Jazeera · Dec 1, 2023

Blinken Says Gaza Truce 'Producing Results', Should Continue

Visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli leaders on Thursday that a temporary truce in their war with Hamas was "producing results" and should continue.

International Business Times · Nov 30, 2023

‘No work and no olives’: harvest rots as West Bank farmers cut off from trees

With olives the largest single agricultural product on the West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli restrictions and settler violence are losing them $70m

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

Hamas releases 16 more hostages amid intense efforts to extend Gaza truce

Ten Israelis, two Russian citizens and four Thais have been handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza, according to the Israeli military

The Guardian - US · Nov 29, 2023

A brief history of the US-Israel 'special relationship' shows how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state

In his first remarks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden affirmed the United States offered “rock solid and unwavering” support to Israel, “just as we have (done) from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its…

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2023

The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics

Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it?

Al Jazeera · Nov 28, 2023