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Mahmoud Abbas

The latest news on Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician and President of the State of Palestine, including political news and updates.

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15 Nov 1935

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Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Gaza rescuers say 80 killed in Israeli strikes

Bombardment intensifies after Israel’s Netanyahu vowed ‘full force’ Gaza offensive.

15 May 2025 - 1:03PM

Israel-Gaza war

Canada confirms it will halt arms shipments to Israel, amid Gaza scrutiny

21 Mar 2024 - 6:05AM

Israel-Gaza war

US Senate leader pushes for Israel elections, calls Netanyahu an obstacle to peace

15 Mar 2024 - 4:48PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel ‘boycotts’ Cairo ceasefire talks; Hamas rejects call for hostage list

Hamas delegation on Sunday arrived in Cairo for the talks, billed as a possible final hurdle before an agreement that would halt fighting for 6 weeks but by early evening there was no sign of the Israelis.

4 Mar 2024 - 1:06AMvideocam

Palestinian women mourn relatives killed in Israeli bombardment at the al-Najjar hospital in Rafah on Friday. Photo: AFP

Middle East

Palestinian Territories’ prime minister Shtayyeh quits

The move is seen as a step towards achieving peace in the Middle East by reforming the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza once the war with Israel is over.

27 Feb 2024 - 3:51AM

Israel-Gaza war

Palestinians want China to mediate in the Israel-Gaza war. What’s stopping it?

Observers say China is in a good position to act as arbitrator in the Israel-Gaza war. So what’s stopping it?

26 Feb 2024 - 2:05PMvideocam

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Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu presents first official ‘day after’ plan for Gaza

According to the document, Israel would maintain security control over all land west of Jordan, including the occupied West Bank and Gaza – territories where the Palestinians want to create an independent state.

23 Feb 2024 - 6:33PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed his first official post-Gaza war plan. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank

The deaths came with international concern mounting about unrest in the West Bank since Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel sparked the Gaza war.

19 Feb 2024 - 11:20AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel vows to press ahead with ‘powerful’ Rafah operation

PM Netanyahu insisted he would seek ‘complete victory’, despite mounting calls to hold off on sending troops into the Gaza city packed with refugees.

15 Feb 2024 - 5:39AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel will send troops into Rafah, Netanyahu vows, promising ‘safe passage’

Despite international alarm over the potential for carnage in a city crammed with over half of Gaza’s 2.4 million people, the Israeli PM says ‘we’re going to do it’, while Hamas warns such an offensive would threaten talks about the release of hostages.

11 Feb 2024 - 9:55PMvideocam

Smoke rises from an Israeli bombardment on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu orders military plan to evacuate Rafah and defeat Hamas

Aid groups have warned of a high death toll if Israeli forces storm the crowded Gaza city, the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

10 Feb 2024 - 6:29AM

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah on Friday. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli air strikes kill 13 in Rafah after Netanyahu rejects Hamas’ truce terms

Hamas proposed a ceasefire of 4½ months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from Gaza and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war.

8 Feb 2024 - 9:02PM

Israel-Gaza war

My Take | Look who’s committing genocide according to American media

China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque.

21 Jan 2024 - 9:00PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel bombs Gaza as disagreements with US simmer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he told the United States that he opposes a Palestinian state in any post-war scenario.

19 Jan 2024 - 7:55PM

An unexploded missile stuck between two homes in Al Nusairat refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Explainer | In 100 days, how has the Israel-Gaza war transformed the region?

The war already is the longest and deadliest between Israel and the Palestinians since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and the fighting shows no signs of ending.

15 Jan 2024 - 2:22PM

Israeli flags flutter in Gaza, as seen from Israel. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Blinken tells Abbas US backs ‘steps’ for Palestinian state as Israel bombs Gaza

Blinken reiterated Washington’s long-standing position that a Palestinian state must stand alongside Israel, “with both living in peace and security”.

10 Jan 2024 - 9:43PM

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas deputy chief was a key player until death in Beirut attack

Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli drone strike that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday.

3 Jan 2024 - 11:36AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli minister repeats call for Palestinians to leave Gaza

Comments by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotricha appear to underscore fears in much of the Arab world that Israel wants to drive Palestinians out of land where they want to build a future state.

1 Jan 2024 - 1:45PM

A woman looks on from behind a plastic screen at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu faces protests as more hostage death details emerge

Israel’s prime minister is taking heat for what’s been termed inaction on securing a new prisoner exchange deal, weeks after a brief ceasefire ended.

16 Dec 2023 - 10:30PM

Middle East

Kuwait’s former defence minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah dies at 86

He was Kuwait’s emir for just three years but spent decades in top posts through the House of Sabah’s tumultuous rule of the oil-rich state.

16 Dec 2023 - 7:39PM

Israel-Gaza war

US, Israel discuss when to scale back Gaza combat, agree fight will last months

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the besieged enclave’s post-war future.

15 Dec 2023 - 11:54PM

A Palestinian man reacts after an Israeli air strike on a house in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: dpa

Qatar

Out of the coup: how a palace putsch helped make Qatar a global peace broker

The coup directly preceded Qatar’s spectacular shift to liquefied natural gas, powering its ascent to heavyweight status on the diplomatic world stage.

10 Dec 2023 - 9:36AMvideocam

A view of high-rise buildings in the Qatari capital, Doha. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel vows to ‘press harder’ in Gaza after US blocks UN ceasefire

Some Hamas fighters are surrendering, in a sign that the militant group’s network is falling apart, according to Israel’s army chief.

10 Dec 2023 - 12:41PM

Israel-Gaza war

US acts against Israelis amid fears violence in West Bank will ‘blow up’

The US has imposed a visa ban against anyone “undermining security” in the West Bank including “extremist Israeli settlers”.

6 Dec 2023 - 7:30PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Blinken urges Israel to create safe zones in Gaza when fighting resumes

The US Secretary of State also called for a further extension of the truce deal, which has seen hostage and prisoner swaps, as well as aid deliveries.

1 Dec 2023 - 6:41AM

Palestinians shop on Thursday in an open-air market near the ruins of houses and buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

As Israel-Hamas truce extended, hostages freed, matter of time before war resumes

Ten hostages held in Gaza would be freed in return for 30 prisoners released from Israeli prisons on Tuesday in the first exchanges under the truce extension, according to a Hamas source.

28 Nov 2023 - 10:29PMvideocam

Israeli soldiers carry out maintenance on tanks deployed on the southern border with the Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023, as a truce between Israel and Hamas entered a fifth day. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Spanish PM visits Gaza border, decries ‘indiscriminate’ killing of Palestinians

During a trip to the Rafah border crossing with his Belgian counterpart De Croo, Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez also called for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

25 Nov 2023 - 9:23AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

When battles in Gaza stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable

Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighbourhoods have been erased. What happens when the war ends?

24 Nov 2023 - 1:10PM

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