The Latest Breaking News from PLO

The Popular Forces, a new Palestinian militia in Gaza, aims to challenge Hamas and its rule. However, scepticism surrounds the group over its ability to assert itself, as well as its leader Yasser Abu Shabab and his criminal past.

Supreme Court has revived lawsuits against Palestinian authorities from Americans killed or wounded in Middle East.

COMMENT: The killing of two Israeli embassy workers outside a Jewish event in the US capital shocked the world – but it will also have grave diplomatic repercussions, says Mary Dejevsky

Mahmoud Abbas’s lining up of the next president is part of a long pattern of denying Palestinians political agency, says researcher of Palestinian and Arab politics Dana El Kurd

Fatah veteran who spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails in 1970s and 1980s is seen as a successor to 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

Concern is growing within the Palestinian Liberation Organization that Israel might exploit Abbas’s departure.

The expectation is that whoever holds the role would be the frontrunner to succeed President Mahmoud Abbas, 89.

As pressure mounts ahead of a key UN summit, France is weighing whether to recognise a Palestinian state – a move President Emmanuel Macron says could come within months. The two-state solution has been the guiding principle of French diplomacy in the Middle East for 70 years, and while the…

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