...José S. Vericat Fatah leaders routinely accuse Hamas of plotting to establish an “emirate” in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is in fact turning into a statelet separate from the West Bank, but it is Israeli policies that are driving the “Gaza is Palestine” option with a series of measures that have been...

... circumstances in Riyadh; and Prince Mohammad bin Salman summons PA president Mahmoud Abbas to the Saudi capital just two days later. These actions come soon after representatives from Hamas and Fatah sign a new reconciliation agreement in Cairo, prompting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten...

... This sample of photos from 16 August–15 November 2017 aims to convey a sense of Palestinian life during this quarter. The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, the one hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and Palestinian Authority attacks on press freedoms (including its arrest...

.... president Donald Trump asked the Palestinians to delay unilateral moves at international fora while his administration assembled a plan for restarting Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations. In the meantime, Hamas and Fatah reached a major new reconciliation agreement, prompting Israeli PM Benjamin...