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Palestinian Authority

Mahmoud Abbas speaks onstage
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Squeezed out in Gaza, PA’s Abbas embraces Israeli peace activists in Ramallah

by Steven Davidson October 10, 2025October 10, 2025

(JTA) — RAMALLAH, West Bank — As a teacher at a school in the Galilee in northern Israel, peace activist Shoshana Lavan says students often told her during the war, […]

An Israeli battle tank is deployed to guard a position as displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 30, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Mahmud Hams-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

How does this war end? ‘A long twilight’ approaches in Israel and Gaza

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 16, 2024April 16, 2024
Palestinians carry the flag-draped body of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as it is carried toward the offices of the news channel in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 11, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ronaldo Schemidt-AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinian Authority says IDF intentionally killed journalist; Gantz calls conclusion ‘blatant lie’

by Andrew Lapin and JTA May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (center) attends the Arab League's foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, Feb. 1, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Mohamed Mostafa-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Palestinian Authority resumes ties with Israeli government

by Ron Kampeas and JTA November 19, 2020
Israeli Lt. Hadar Goldin's parents have waged a years-long campaign to bring back the remains of their son from Gaza. (Photo/JTA-AFP-Getty Images)
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Hamas has held hostage the bodies of 2 Israeli soldiers for 5 years. Enough is enough.

Arsen Ostrovsky by Arsen Ostrovsky and JTA August 9, 2019
Grant Rumley, author of "The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas," being interviewed by Moses Libitzky
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Abbas scholar examines career of ‘boring’ Palestinian leader in S.F. talk

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 27, 2018February 27, 2018
the two men stand at podiums together.
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