The Latest Breaking News from Mahmoud Abbas

Hussein al-Sheikh is a veteran leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement.

Hussein al-Sheikh has been named vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Israel launches wave of airstrikes as Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposal

The Gaza Civil Defence, a first responders' body that operates under the Hamas-run government, also said it recovered another four bodies from strikes on two homes in the same area.

Pope Francis was usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, however, he campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave since the war began

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu in a phonecall that the suffering of Gazan civilians "must end" and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages. He also called for the prospect of a two-state solution to be revisited.

Proposal focuses on emergency relief and long-term economic development under Palestinian Authority administration

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s plan for Gaza counters the US proposal to take over the enclave.

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