Peace process

Fatah calls for new international mechanism for peace process

Monday-5-February-2018

The Fatah Movement’s Central Committee has called on the international community to develop a new mechanism capable of setting a sound foundation for a peace process and sponsoring it in order to reach a just political solution to the Palestinian cause.

Slovenia backtracks on its decision to recognize Palestinian state

Saturday-27-January-2018

Slovenian President Borut Pahor has announced that his country will not recognize the Palestinian state at this stage claiming that such move would aggravate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

US envoy Greenblatt in Palestine today

Thursday-18-January-2018

The US administration’s peace envoy Jason Greenblatt will arrive in Palestine today to meet with envoys from the Middle East Quartet to explore the situation following president Donald Trump’s recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Abu Zuhri: Peace process over two-state solution breathed its last

Sunday-10-December-2017

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said on Sunday that the peace process has fallen apart stressing Palestinians’ firm refusal to return to the U.S.-brokered negotiations table.

Shaath: Trump’s endeavors to twist Palestinians’ arm futile

Sunday-19-November-2017

Speaking with the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) Shaath said the PA does not have any pieces of information as regards a projected US decision toward the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Trump: Netanyahu is a bigger problem than Abbas

Thursday-5-October-2017

In a meeting last month with UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres US president Donald Trump described Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu as “the harder side to convince in his efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal” according to Haaretz newspaper.

Foreign ministry: Netanyahu’s General Assembly speech “misleading”

Thursday-21-September-2017

The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has strongly criticized the speech Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu delivered recently at the UN General Assembly describing it as “misleading and full of nonsense talk.”

Abu Marzouk meets with Swiss envoy to Peace Process

Saturday-9-September-2017

Mousa Abu Marzouk Deputy Head of Hamas Political Bureau met on Saturday with the Swiss envoy to the Peace Process in the Middle East Roland Stinger with the presence of the Hamas leaders Husam Badran and Maher Ebaid in Doha.

US delegation tells Abbas settlement freeze impossible

Saturday-26-August-2017

A US delegation led by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has reportedly told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that a halt in settlement construction in the West Bank is impossible because it could bring about the collapse of Benjamin Netanyahu's government Hebrew sources reported.

US delegation in Tel Aviv to explore peace avenues

Thursday-24-August-2017

A high-level US delegation on Wednesday arrived in Tel Aviv to hold meetings with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah to explore avenues for jumpstarting the peace process.