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Palestinian political parties Hamas and Fatah on Thursday announded a reconciliation deal in which Hamas has agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza to Fatah in Cairo. While the agreement has not yet...

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, discusses the implications of Palestinian statehood under the rubric of International Law... "The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is...

The US rejected the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the UN Mission in Libya , despite official reports that all other 14 members of the UN Security Council approved the appointment. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will be lifting restrictions on Israelis building settlements in East Jerusalem. The statement said "My vision is to enact sovereignty over all the settlements." Immediately after the...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a recent letter, warned President-Elect Trump against moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Specifically, Abbas said the move would have a "disastrous impact on the peace process, on the two-state solution...

The Palestinian Constitutional Court ruled Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas can revoke the parliamentary immunity of lawmakers, which will allow him to expel various political opponents. The ruling upheld Abbas' 2012 revocation of Mohammad Dahlan's immunity; Dahlan is considered Abbas'...

The Palestinian high court in Ramallah on Monday amended a previous ruling, holding that municipal elections can take place, but only in West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip. The court had previously held that the election,...

The Palestinian High Court of Justice in Ramallah ordered the suspension of local elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The first presidential election to take place in a decade was scheduled...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has established a new constitutional court that will be inaugurated Monday with the swearing in of the last justice. The court, which will hold supremacy over all others, was quietly created by presidential decree, but those...

The President of Palestine, HE Mahmoud Abbas, and other Palestinian foreign officials met with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, where the Palestinian officials presented documents that purportedly contain...