U.S. to Downgrade Palestinian Affairs Office in Jerusalem, Officials Say
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U.S. to Downgrade Palestinian Affairs Office in Jerusalem, Officials Say

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In recent years, an office within the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem had a direct line of communication with Washington. That was meant to signal that the United States saw Palestinian issues as important, and considered the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip…

Palestinian Leader Abbas Appoints Hussein al-Sheikh as Deputy Amid Succession Fears
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Palestinian Leader Abbas Appoints Hussein al-Sheikh as Deputy Amid Succession Fears

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Palestinian leaders in the Israeli-occupied West Bank met this week for the first gathering of its kind in years. Their mission: to allow Mahmoud Abbas, the aging Palestinian Authority president, to appoint a longtime loyalist to a newly-minted senior position. On Saturday night,…

Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own
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Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After President Trump shocked the Arab world last month by suggesting the entire population of Gaza be expelled from the territory, his aides reframed the idea as an invitation to the leaders of the Middle East: Come up with a better plan, or…

Cease-Fires in Gaza and Lebanon Will Most Likely Hold for Now, Analysts Say
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Cease-Fires in Gaza and Lebanon Will Most Likely Hold for Now, Analysts Say

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon will most likely hold for now, despite being tested to their limits over the weekend, because all sides want to avoid full-scale fighting at least for a few weeks, analysts said. In southern Lebanon, Israeli troops remained…

Israel Keeps Up Raids in West Bank, Arresting 25, Palestinian Reports Say
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Israel Keeps Up Raids in West Bank, Arresting 25, Palestinian Reports Say

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Israel’s military continued what it called a new counterterrorism operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting at least 25 people over the last day, Palestinian news media reported. The total death toll since the start of the raid rose to 10,…

Opinion | President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare
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Opinion | President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Dear President Trump: You may not be interested in Jewish or Arab history, but they are both very interested in you today. This is one of those rare moments — like after World War I, World War II and the Cold War —…

As Truce Takes Hold, Gazans and Israelis Express Elation Tinged With Doubt
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As Truce Takes Hold, Gazans and Israelis Express Elation Tinged With Doubt

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As a truce took hold on Sunday in Gaza, potentially ending the longest and deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two men used the same metaphor to describe how they felt. “The weight on my chest has lifted,” said Ziad Obeid,…

‘Missing in action’: Where has Palestinian Authority been since October 7? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Missing in action’: Where has Palestinian Authority been since October 7? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

ByNews Polite

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was in his element when, on stage at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) last month, he thanked 124 countries for voting yes on the first-ever resolution introduced by Palestine at the UNGA. He was back at the scene of one of the PA’s most…