Abbas

Abbas turns blind eye to Israeli escalation at al-Aqsa

Wednesday-19-July-2017

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned a blind eye to the serious escalation in Occupied Jerusalem and Israel's violations at al-Aqsa Mosque and banning Jerusalemites and Palestinian worshipers from performing prayers at the holy site since last Friday.

Gaza: Massive protests against Abbas and his government

Saturday-15-July-2017

Massive vigils and marches were staged on Friday night in different areas of the Gaza Strip in protest at the measures that were taken recently by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and his government against the population in the impoverished enclave.

Bahar: Abbas’s measures against Gaza “credentials to Trump”

Tuesday-11-July-2017

Ahmed Bahar first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council said that the recent measures taken against the Gaza Strip were only credentials presented by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to US president Donald Trump.

PA cuts social allowances to 80000 poor families in blockaded Gaza

Tuesday-11-July-2017

A senior official unraveled a decision by the Palestinian Authority (PA) chaired by Mahmoud Abbas to suspend social allowances to over 80000 families in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Bahar condemns PA for stopping to pay salaries to W. Bank MPs

Monday-10-July-2017

Ahmed Bahar first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority (PA) for halting the payment of salaries to 37 lawmakers from the parliamentary Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas.

Bahar slams Abbas’s recent measures against Gaza

Friday-7-July-2017

Ahmed Bahar the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has strongly denounced Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas for taking measures that aggravated recently the inhumane blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Ex-prisoners to Abbas: Salaries cut-off will never dampen our spirits

Wednesday-5-July-2017

Dozens of ex-prisoners rallied on Wednesday outside the house of the Palestinian Minister of Labor Maamoun Abu Shahla south of Gaza protesting the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) suspension of their salaries.

Barhoum: Abbas’s measures against Gaza crimes against humanity

Tuesday-4-July-2017

Spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Fawzi Barhoum said on Tuesday that the latest decision by the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas forcing PA employees in Gaza into early retirement is "immoral and inhumane".

Bahar: Abbas insists to kill the sick people in Gaza

Tuesday-4-July-2017

First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmed Bahar held Israeli occupation authorities and the Palestinian Authority responsible in full for the martyrdom of 14 sick people last week in Gaza Strip due to the tightened siege on the coastal enclave.

Al-Hamdallah’s gov’t forces 6145 Gazan workers into early retirement

Tuesday-4-July-2017

The Ramallah-based Palestinian government on Tuesday decided that 6145 workers from Gaza be handed over early-retirement orders against their will.