A bid by Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas to join international conventions for supporting Palestinians’ rights against Israel violations has been accepted by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to take unilateral measures against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless it abandons plans to join 15 UN agencies and international treatises.
US Secretary John Kerry has ended an unannounced, 16-hour visit to Israel, without meeting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas.
The Arab League (AL) has dropped its support behind acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas in rejection of Israel’s demand for being recognized as a “Jewish state.”
An Israeli coalition party rejected Monday a proposal by Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas that envisions Israel's withdrawal of troops and settlers from the West Bank over a five-year period and US-led forces patrolling the future Palestinian state.
Jordan's King Abdullah II has held talks with the prime minister of the Israeli regime Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman to discuss the US-sponsored talks between Tel Aviv and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA).
The Palestinian Authority is ramping up its diplomatic efforts against Israeli illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories it occupied in the 1967 war.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the IsraelI regime to show "restraint" in its illegal settlement projects in the occupied Palestinian lands.
Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has officially accepted resignation of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has criticized Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, calling the move a “violation of international law.”