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UN elevates Palestine to a ‘nonmember observer state’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinians fired in the air, whistled and embraced each other in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday after the General Assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. As the votes were cast, there was silence among the thousands gathered in the West Bank…
Palestinians say Romney peace remarks ‘unacceptable’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Tuesday that comments by US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that the Palestinians did not want peace were “absolutely unacceptable.” “We consider these statements absolutely unacceptable,” he told AFP. A recording released on Tuesday shows Romney telling donors that the Palestinians…
Palestinian leadership says Gaza tunnels a ‘threat’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian Authority has condemned the network of smuggling tunnels between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt as a “threat” to security and lauded Cairo’s campaign to seal them. Speaking a week after a deadly attack which killed 16 Egyptian border police in northern Sinai, Tayeb Abdelrahim, chief…
Palestians say Romney remarks ‘harmful’ to U.S. interests
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s endorsement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is “harmful” to US interests in the Middle East, a senior Palestinian official said on Sunday. “Romney’s declarations are harmful to American interests in our region, and they harm peace, security and stability,”…
Palestinian on hunger strike is hospitalised
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — A top Palestinian militant on hunger strike for nearly two weeks has been transferred to the hospital wing of an Israeli prison near Tel Aviv, a Palestinian MP said Sunday. Ahmed Saadat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), began refusing…
Gates first U.S. defense chief to visit Palestinians
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Robert Gates on Friday became the first U.S. Defense Secretary to visit the West Bank, meeting Palestinian leaders keenly aware of every little nod to their hopes of achieving statehood. Children in Ramallah stared as the long motorcade of U.S. cars wound through the streets…
Abbas’ Palestinian cabinet to resign amid Arab revolutions, sources say
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian cabinet will tender resignations Monday after which Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas, political sources said. The shake-up, disclosed to Reuters Sunday, was long demanded by Fayyad and some in Abbas’s Fatah faction. It follows…
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