RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to double its efforts to halt Israel’s war on Gaza. Abbas met with Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland in the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks on the situation in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leader conveyed a message [&hellip...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – An Arab summit in Jordan’s port city of Aqaba on Wednesday warned against Israel’s reoccupation of parts of the Gaza Strip. The summit brought together Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The three leaders called “for pushing to halt the Israeli aggress...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in a phone conversation about steps that Moscow is taking to help de-escalate the situation in Gaza and ensure uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to the millions of displaced survivors. According to a Kremlin statement, Putin als...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday condemned the US for using its veto to block a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, describing the move immoral and holding Washington accountable for the bloodshed of Palestinian children and women, as well as an accomplice with I...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would not govern the Gaza Strip during his term. “As long as I’m the prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” Netanyahu said on social media platform X, in response to a report by Sky News Arabia that […]
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hopes to lay the groundwork for a peace conference during his visits to Israel, Palestine and Egypt, local daily El Pais reported. On Thursday, the newly reelected leader of Spain will travel to Israel and Palestine to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister [&hellip...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday demanded that the United States immediately stop Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. Meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas “demanded an immediate cessation of the devastating war...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned against attempts to displace the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, or anywhere else. In his speech at the Cairo Peace Summit, Abbas said: “Israel indiscriminately targets thousands of civilians, hospitals, schools, and shelter centers in the Ga...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has agreed to postpone a meeting with Arab leaders that was to take place amid soaring casualties in the besieged Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday. “After consulting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and in light of the days of mourning announced by President (Mahmoud) Abbas […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the Palestine cause and Israeli escalation in occupied territories. During the meeting held on the sidelines of 78th UN General Assembly session in New York, the Palestinian leader “reiterated the need fo...