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Palestinians gather near a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

Hamas wants Russia’s support, with role in postwar Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

China, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

China, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas

By Jed Babbin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference to support Jerusalem at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 12, 2023. The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. President Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the PA for nearly two decades and remains in overall control, announced the new government in a presidential decree on Thursday March 28, 2024. None of the incoming ministers are well-known figures. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

The U.S. welcomes the new Palestinian government following its repeated calls for political reform

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Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

American support for Israel-Palestinian Authority peace deal craters if Hamas involved, poll shows

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Biden resumed aid that goes to terrorists

FILE - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday Oct. 17, 2023. The Palestinian Authority's prime minister announced his government's resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process demanded by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Palestinian leader appoints longtime adviser as prime minister in the face of calls for reform

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Palestinians cross into Israel through a checkpoint in Bethlehem, West Bank, on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

The economy of this Palestinian village depended on Israel. Then the checkpoint closed

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Biden envoy to meet with Abbas as U.S. floats a possible Palestinian security role in postwar Gaza

By Karin Laub, Najib Jobain and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 18, 2023. The United States has offered strong support to Israel in its war against Hamas. But the allies ar increasingly at odds over what will happen to the Gaza Strip once the war winds down. (Miriam Alster/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel and U.S. are at odds over conflicting visions for postwar Gaza

By Josef Federman and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians look from windows at the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

U.S. has strongly backed Israel’s war against Hamas. The allies don’t seem to know what comes next

By Josef Federman and Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Nayef al-Sudairi, Saudi Arabia's the first-ever Saudi ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, arrives to present his credentials to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki, Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Al-Sudairi visited the Palestinian territories Tuesday to discuss the burgeoning Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, which the kingdom has said will hinge on what concessions Israel is willing to grant the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Saudi delegation visits Palestinian territories as Israel and Saudi Arabia eye normalization

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Palestinian leader tells U.N. there can be no Mideast peace without his people enjoying full rights

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Tell es-Sultan archaeological near Jericho, West Bank, site is seen Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list the site as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognize a Palestinian state.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel criticizes UN vote to list ruins near ancient Jericho as World Heritage Site in Palestine

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A Palestinian police officer inspects illegal motorcycles that police have newly confiscated as part of a wider crackdown on crime in Jenin, that are gathered in a scrap yard at the Beit Qad police station, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

After Israeli raids, Palestinian police struggle in militant hotbed, reflecting region on the brink

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas attends a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Jade Gao/Pool Photo via AP)

Palestinian president visits Jenin refugee camp after devastating Israeli military raid

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Illustration on the hostility against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Stalinist approach to peacemaking is homicidal logic: No Israel, no problem

By Clifford D. May

An empty classroom is seen in a school in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, March. 28, 2023. Palestinian public schools across the occupied West Bank have been shuttered since Feb. 5, in one of the longest teachers' strikes in recent memory against the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian teachers’ strike grows, reflecting deep crisis

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A 2,700-year-old ivory incense spoon plundered from a site in the occupied West Bank — seized in late 2021 by the Manhattan District Attorney's office as part of a plea deal with billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, displayed at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Earlier this month, American officials handed over the artifact to the Palestinians in what the U.S. State Department's Office of Palestinian Affairs said was "the first event event of such repatriation" by the U.S. to the Palestinians. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel probes legality of U.S. giving artifact to Palestinians

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinians burn tires during a protest against Israeli military raid in the West Bank, along the border fence with Israel, in east of Gaza City on Oct. 25, 2022. The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm &quot;an explosive situation&quot; and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

UN: 2022 likely deadliest for Palestinians in West Bank

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Palestinians visit the site where veteran Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed, in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 18, 2022. The Al Jazeera news network says it will submit a case file to the International Criminal Court on the killing of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead earlier this month during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Al Jazeera says it will go to ICC over killing of journalist

By Joseph Krauss