Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Archives

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Mohammad Shtayyeh, Palestinian Authority PM (Wikipedia/Montaser.pal)

February 26, 2024, 9:09 am

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister submits government’s resignation

Shtayyeh said the resignation comes amid 'developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem'

By Jotam Confino in Israel

December 12, 2023, 8:54 am

Berlin drops Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust hate speech case due to diplomatic immunity

At issue was Abbas’ comments made during a press conference with German Chancellor in which he accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” since its war for independence in 1948.

By Toby Axelrod (JTA)

September 11, 2023, 1:03 pm

Mahmoud Abbas stripped of Paris honour after Holocaust revisionism

"We condemn your comments with the utmost firmness. No cause can justify revisionism and negationism," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told Abbas.

By JN Reporter

September 7, 2023, 11:50 am

Palestinian President: Nazis killed Jews due to their ‘social role’, not religion

The German ambassador to Israel called President Abbas' comments "an insult to the memory of millions of murdered men, women and children."

By Jotam Confino in Israel

April 18, 2021, 9:40 am

Mahmoud Abbas to address American Jewish group J Street’s conference

Palestinian president will deliver prerecorded group to the progressive organisation's annual get-together

By JTA

May 24, 2020, 10:08 am

Mahmoud Abbas ends Palestinians’ agreements with Israel

Long-serving president of the PA cuts ties with Israel including on security co-operation

By JTA

February 3, 2020, 4:29 pm

Arab League unanimously rejects Trump’s peace plan

Foreign ministers from across the Middle East dismissed the American president's 'bias' offer, which he dubbed the 'deal of the century'

By JTA

December 18, 2019, 11:03 am

Prince Charles to make first official Israel visit for Holocaust Memorial Day

Heir to the throne will attend commemoration for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and will also meet Israeli and Palestinian presidents

By Jewish News Reporter

Hebron's Cave of the Patriachs is important to all three monotheistic faiths

September 5, 2019, 12:41 pm

Bibi vows Jews will never leave Hebron in latest pre-election settler pitch

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accused of pandering to Israel's extreme right in West Bank city visit

By Jewish News Reporter

Jared Kushner meeting with Bibi Netanyahu in 2017, in the preliminary stages of the peace plan.

June 22, 2019, 11:34 pm

White House unveils £40bn economic plan for Palestinians

Trump administration releases details of financial push towards peace with a mix of public and private financing to create a million Palestinian jobs

By Jewish News Reporter

April 17, 2019, 5:43 pm

New Palestinian Prime Minister says Trump’s peace plan will be ‘born dead’

PA leader Mohammad Shtayyeh hits out at the still-to-be revealed proposal over reports it won't include a Palestinian state

By JTA

March 12, 2019, 1:00 pm

Abbas ally appointed new Palestinian Authority prime minister

President makes Mohammad Shtayyeh, a Fatah Party insider, the new head of the government in the West Bank

By JTA

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

February 25, 2019, 5:20 pm

Olmert: ‘Bibi claims more devastating than anything I was accused of’

Ehud Olmert was interviewed by Rageh Omaar, ITV’s international affairs editor.

By Jenni Frazer

February 6, 2019, 7:12 pm

Mahmoud Abbas pledges to continue security co-ordination with Israel

Palestinian president makes commitment despite recent US funding cuts to security forces and stalled peace

January 15, 2019, 10:05 am

Mahmoud Abbas to assume chairmanship of major UN bloc

Veteran leader will take over from Egypt as the head of the Group of 77 which focuses on developing countries

By JTA

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