Tag: mahmoud abbas
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Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian elections to September 2027
Elections in the state of Palestine schedule for November this year have been postponed to September next year by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The decree was issued by President Mahmoud Abbas and concerns both presidential and legislative elections. It can be found here. According to the decree, the decision was prompted after obstacles by…
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Mahmoud Abbas calls for elections in Palestine including Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for elections in all of Palestine including in Jerusalem and Gaza to be held on Saturday November 29th. The last time elections were held in Palestine was in January 25 2006m in which Hamas won 44,5% of the vote against Fatah’s 41.4%, however support for Hamas in Gaza has…
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German Foreign Minister meets Netanyahu and Abbas
German Minister of Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem following his visit to Taybeh and another meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Palestine. In his first public statements in his visit to Palestine, Minister Wadephul condemned settler terrorism on Palestinians and describe their actions as “organised…
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President Macron postpones recognition of State of Palestine to September
In a public letter sent to the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is set to recognise the State of Palestine during the upcoming United Nation’s General Assembly in September. The UN Conference on Palestine that was supposed to be chaired by France and Saudi Arabia has…
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Mahmoud Abbas submits plan for Palestinian State: Macron agees with 1967 borders
In a letter sent to the French President, and the Saudi-Crown Prince, who will be chairing the upcoming United Nations Conference on the State of Palestine on June 20th, Mahmoud Abbas has laid out the plan of the Palestinian Authority for the newly proposed Palestinian State. European nations including France and the UK will be…
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Breaking: Hamas accepts Egyptian brokered-deal to share power in Gaza with Fatah
Hamas has just accepted an Egyptian brokered deal to share power over Gaza with the the ruling-party of the Palestinian Authority, Fatah. The deal was negotiated in Cairo with Khalil al-Hayya representing Hamas and Azzam al-Ahmad representing Fatah. Fatah and Hamas will appoint a committee made composed of up to 15 technocratic and non-partisan individuals…
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Mahmoud Abbas meets Vladimir Putin and gets nothing
There was a lot of talk but no tangible results from a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week. Abbas who visited with a delegation of the Palestinian National Organisation met Putin along with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov. Last month, China claimed that it mediated…