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Fatah, Hamas agree to form committee to run postwar Gaza

2024-12-04

[IsraelTimes] Proposal calls for nonpartisan panel to administer Strip, and for all crossings into territory to return to pre-October 2023 operations

Paleostinian terror group Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
and the Paleostinian Authority’s Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly administer postwar Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, negotiators from both sides said Tuesday.

Under the plan, which needs the approval of PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
, the committee would be composed of 10-15 nonpartisan figures with authority on matters related to the economy, education, health, humanitarian aid

, and reconstruction, according to a draft of the proposal seen by AFP.

It is unclear if Israel would agree to the deal being formulated.

Not really unclear, no.

Israel rejects any role for Hamas in Gaza after the war the terror group started last year, and has also said it does not trust Abbas’s PA to run the enclave.

Actually, crystal clear would be a better description.

Following talks in Cairo brokered by Egypt, the two rival factions agreed the committee would administer the Paleostinian side of the Rafah checkpoint on the border with Egypt — the territory’s only crossing not shared with Israel.

That’s nice, boys. Maybe you should try mumblety-peg instead

The Rafah Crossing, a major conduit for humanitarian aid into Gaza, has been closed since Israel captured it in May, with Egyptian authorities refusing to cooperate with Israeli forces on keeping the gateway open.

That’s because Egypt doesn’t want any of those icky Gazans polluting their pristine environs, while Israel doesn’t want more weapons smuggled across the border to Hamas, even if President al-Sisi’s nephew has been making bank on the project.

Fatah’s delegation, led by central party committee member Azzam al-Ahmad, was to return to Ramallah on Tuesday to seek Abbas’s final approval, negotiators from both sides told AFP.

The Hamas delegation was headed by politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.

The London-based pan-Arab news site al-Araby al-Jadeed also said it had seen a copy of the document and reported the agreement lays out plans to establish a committee to administer the Strip, "reporting to the Paleostinian government" based in the West Bank.

The document has six sections, the first of which stresses preserving "the unity" of Paleostinian territories according to the pre-1967 borders, the report said. The second deals with strengthening "communication between the Paleostinian government in the West Bank and the committee in Gaza."

Other sections deal with determining that the committee would act according to the Paleostinian political system and would not bring about a separation between the Gaza Strip and other Paleostinian territories. The committee is to continue its work until "the reasons that led to its formation are eliminated," general elections are held, "or another formula agreed upon nationally is adopted."

The committee will only begin its work after border crossings into Gaza return to operating as before October 2023 and the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopened according to a 2005 agreement that put its operation in the hands of Egypt and the Paleostinian Authority, under the supervision of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, the report said.

A final formula for the plan also requires ratification by all Paleostinian factions at a meeting that would again be held in Cairo, al-Arabiya reported.

On Monday, Egypt’s foreign minister said that Fatah and Hamas representatives were in Cairo for talks seeking to bring postwar Gaza under the full control of the Fatah-dominated PA.

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~~Seven~~ eight dead as ~~clashes~~ hudna resumes in Ain el-Helweh

2023-09-15

Hudna! Hudna! Hudna! Any bets on how many hours this one will last, dear Reader?

Warring Palestinian factions in Lebanon refugee camp agree to new truce

[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian fighters agree to a new ceasefire on Thursday after more than a week of deadly violence in Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s largest refugee camp, two Paleostinian officials tell AFP.

At least 17 people have been killed and around 100 maimed in the fighting in Ain al-Helweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the port city of Sidon, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy’s Lebanon branch.

The festivities have pitted fighters of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamists.

"The two parties agreed to implement a ceasefire... starting today at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT)," Paleostinian camp official Fuad Othman tells AFP by telephone.

A Paleostinian official close to Fatah confirms the agreement, requesting anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the press.

The agreement came after the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Knobby Berri
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
, met separately with Fatah’s Azzam al-Ahmad and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,’s Mussa Abu Marzuk on Thursday.

Hamas is not involved in the fighting but is in contact with the Islamist hardliners, Othman said.

Seven dead as clashes resume in Ain el-Helweh

[AnNahar] Seven people were killed in festivities as a ceasefire fell apart on Wednesday evening in Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
's largest Paleostinian camp, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy's Lebanon branch said.

The Ain el-Helweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, has been rocked by violence since last week.

The festivities have pitted members of the Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamist bad boys, excluding Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,.

The renewed fighting on Wednesday killed seven people and maimed 16, Imad Hallak from the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy's Lebanon branch told AFP over the phone.

The latest deaths bring to at least 16 the number of people killed in the fighting since it broke out on Thursday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said. Around 100 have also been maimed, it said.

Senior Paleostinian officials, including Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad and Hamas's Mussa Abu Marzuk, met late Tuesday at the Paleostinian embassy in Beirut, a joint statement said.

They had expressed their "full commitment to consolidating the ceasefire" and agreed to "work to facilitate the return of those forced from their homes".

But the ceasefire collapsed on Wednesday, with an AFP correspondent in Sidon reporting ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful festivities in the evening.

Bullets and shells fell on different parts of Sidon, he said, adding that he saw dozens of Paleostinian families fleeing the camp.

Al Ahram confuses the question:

The latest deaths bring to at least 16 the number of people killed in the fighting since it broke out on Thursday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said. Around 100 have also been maimed, it said.

Five days of fighting in Ain al-Helweh that began in late July killed 13 people and maimed dozens, in the deadliest outbreak of violence in the camp in years.

That fighting erupted after the death of an Islamist bad boy, followed by an ambush that killed five Fatah members, including a military leader.

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Armed clashes erupt overnight between PA forces and terror group fighters in Jenin

2023-08-03

[IsraelTimes] Street fighting, prompted by PA’s arrest of two button men, signals escalating conflict between Ramallah and local Islamists in northern West Bank city

Armed festivities erupted between the Paleostinian Authority’s security forces and members of local armed terror groups on the streets of Jenin Tuesday night.

The fighting broke out in reaction to the PA’s arrest of two button men in the West Bank town of Jaba’, some 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Jenin, according to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-affiliated news website Shehab.

Following the arrests, armed assailants reportedly attacked the headquarters of the Jenin governorate, the local seat of the PA administration, prompting festivities with the PA security forces. The confrontation then moved to the Jenin refugee camp, where the PA forces opened fire and threw tear gas at the button men, storming into the local hospital, according to videos circulating on social media.

The festivities signal an escalating conflict between President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s Paleostinian Authority and local Islamist factions in the Jenin area, most prominently the Jenin Battalion, the local branch of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group.

A month ago, the Israeli military carried out a large-scale two-day operation in the Jenin refugee camp to dismantle the terrorist networks operating there and to seize weapons.

As the street fighting broke out Tuesday night, mosques in the refugee camp called on the PA via loudspeakers to release a number of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad members it detained following the IDF operation in the refugee camp in early July, in what local factions claim were "political arrests" and the PA sees as a crackdown on rival Islamist factions that have undermined its control over the northern West Bank for years.

In particular, local factions ask for the release of Khaled al-Ararawi, a prominent PIJ member arrested on July 15, who is also the uncle of 17-year-old Majdi al-Ararawi, one of the 13 button men killed by the IDF in the Jenin operation in early July.

Another video circulating on social media shows a group of gunnies marching through the Jenin refugee camp, chanting "Abu Mazen get out, no to the Paleostinian Authority, no to the army!" Abu Mazen is Mahmoud Abbas’s nom de guerre.

The PA is increasingly seen by some Paleostinians as collaborating with Israel at the expense of fighting for their rights. At a mass funeral held for some of the button men killed in the IDF operation in early July, big shots of the PA’s Fatah party were met with heckling and shouting from the angry crowd.

Abbas’s deputy Mahmoud al-Aloul, the head of Fatah’s Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad, and other senior Fatah leaders were driven out of that event, with participants shouting "Get out!" as they raged against Fatah’s alleged neglect of the "resistance" against Israel.

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Ramallah sends ministers to Jenin, cracks down on Islamic Jihad after IDF operation

2023-07-10

[IsraelTimes] Fatah-controlled Paleostinian Authority appears to try to reassert control over city in face of rival groups

A delegation of three ministers from the Fatah-led Paleostinian Authority visited the city of Jenin on Sunday and met with local officials, apparently as part of an effort to reassert the PA’s presence and clout in the city following the IDF operation against gangs there last week.

The army operation revealed the level of armament and organization of terror groups in the city, most importantly the Jenin Battalion, a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group, which has been operating outside the control of the Ramallah-based PA.

The PA is increasingly seen by some Paleostinians as collaborating with Israel rather than fighting for their rights.

At a mass funeral held last Wednesday for some of the button men killed in the IDF operation, senior Fatah leaders were met with heckling and shouting from the angry crowd.

Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
, Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Fatah’s Central Committee, and other senior Fatah leaders were driven out of the event with participants shouting, "Get out!" as they raged against Fatah’s alleged neglect of the "resistance."

To remedy the setback, deputy al-Aloul returned to the city three days later on July 8, for what appeared to be a friendly conciliatory meeting with the Jenin Battalion.

On Sunday, three PA ministers came from Ramallah to visit the city and meet officials. Interior Minister Ziyad Hab al-Reeh, Health Minister Mai al-Kaila and Local Government Minister Majdi al-Saleh inspected the areas that were subject to Israeli incursion in the refugee camp and met with the Jenin Governor Akram Rajoub and Mayor Nidal al-Obeidi.

According to the PA’s official media outlet al-Hayat al-Jadida, the three ministers conveyed Mahmoud Abbas’s instructions for a reconstruction plan for the city and refugee camp. The health minister also met with the director of a Jenin hospital treating the maimed from the operation.

The Jordan-based Paleostinian opposition website Amad, commenting on the visit, ran an editorial noting that the Fatah presence seen in Jenin in the past 48 hours had not been seen in years, as the movement was too absorbed in its internal organizational questions and in "awaiting the post-Mahmoud Abbas era."

The outlet claimed that Fatah is better at managing Israel’s security than the Paleostinians’ own, and its leadership "only reacts, it does not act with a vision."

Commenting on the meeting between Fatah officials and the Jenin Battalion, it said that Fatah put up a performance "only for self-publicity" that conferred it neither honor nor power. The leadership has not yet realized the extent of the "conspiracy" that is building up against it, the editorial concludes.

In parallel with the visits by ministers, the Paleostinian Authority has adopted harsher methods to reestablish its control over Jenin. According to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-linked news site Palinfo, the PA has launched a crackdown on the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin area in recent days.

PA forces reportedly detained two men at a flying checkpoint set up during the IDF action as they were on their way to fight in Jenin. The two men, Murad Walid Malayshe (34) and Muhammad Walid Barahme (37), spent over 10 years in Israeli prisons for terror-related activities and are among "the most wanted by Israel," according to Palinfo.

On Thursday, journalist Ahmed al-Betawi was reportedly arrested, as well as an "activist" from near Hebron named Louay Qabaja, who was allegedly detained for a Facebook post and has been on hunger strike ever since.

The crackdown against Islamic Jihad members in Jenin continued on the night between Saturday and Sunday, with the arrest of two other PIJ members including Ahmad Salatneh, director of a Jenin charity group affiliated with the Islamic Jihad.

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PA’s Abbas said to tell forces to resist IDF troops, settlers who enter ‘our lands’

2023-03-02

[IsraelTimes] Senior PLO member Azzam al-Ahmad says Paleostinian troops told not to hesitate, emphasizes importance of ’national resistance’

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
has instructed PA security forces to confront Israeli troops and settlers if they enter Paleostinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, a senior PA official said on Tuesday.

"President Abbas instructed the security services to confront the occupation forces and settlers," Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the executive leadership of the Fatah party and the Paleostine Liberation Organization told the Paleostinian Satellite Channel. "We stress the importance of the national resistance," he added.

"If they enter our lands, don’t hesitate to confront them," al-Ahmad said, apparently referring to Abbas’s instructions regarding Area A of the West Bank.

"The best example is what is going on in Nablus [where battles between IDF soldiers and Paleostinian button men have taken place in the northern West Bank city], and even in Huwara," the site of a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful Death Eater settler riot, he said.

"Not long ago, they [PA security forces] fought with them [Israeli soldiers] in Huwara," he claimed, without giving details.

The Israeli security establishment has long hailed coordination with PA forces as critical for combating terror and maintaining stability in the West Bank. Abbas recently cut ties following a deadly Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank that killed nine Paleostinians, including at least one civilian.

At a summit in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Sunday, Israeli and Paleostinian officials agreed to take steps to resume coordination.

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Gallant revokes PA officials’ entry permits for visiting freed terror convict

2023-01-08

All choices have consequences.

[IsraelTimes] Senior Fatah members Mahmoud al-Aloul, Azzam al-Ahmad, and Rawhi Fattouh had joined celebrations at home of Karim Younis in northern Israeli town of ’Ara on Saturday

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday said he was revoking the entry permits to Israel of three senior Paleostinian Authority officials, after the trio paid a visit to a newly released prisoner who was held for murdering a soldier.

Karim Younis, the longest-serving prisoner incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for security-related offenses, was freed from prison Thursday after serving 40 years behind bars following his conviction on terrorism charges for murdering an Israeli soldier in 1980.

Since his release, celebrations have been held at his hometown of ’Ara in northern Israel. Younis is part of Israel’s Arab minority, many of whom identify as Paleostinians.

On Saturday, the three members of the PA’s ruling Fatah party — Mahmoud al-Aloul, Azzam al-Ahmad, and Rawhi Fattouh — visited Younis, entering Israel with their valid permits given to senior Paleostinian officials. Former Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, who directs the National Arab Higher Follow-Up Committee, was also spotted at the gathering.

The Defense Ministry said Gallant ordered the head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) — the Defense Ministry body responsible for Paleostinian civil affairs — Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, to revoke their permits following the visit.

Gallant’s decision was made following an assessment he held with the Shin Bet security agency and other officials, according to the ministry.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has an additional role as a minister within the Defense Ministry, hailed Gallant’s "right and necessary decision" in a post on Twitter.

Smotrich’s role in the Defense Ministry ostensibly allows him to appoint the generals leading the hybrid civil-military COGAT and its office overseeing many settlement issues, the Civil Administration, subject to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval.

Smotrich has not yet made any decisions with his secondary ministerial position, and the Knesset’s legal adviser said last month that Gallant would still be able to overrule him.

Cousins Maher and Karim Younis, both from ’Ara, murdered Cpl. Avraham Bromberg in 1980. The assailants offered the soldier a ride as he was heading home from his army base in the Golan Heights, then overpowered him, shot him in the head, and stole his weapon. They left him on the side of a road where he was found and brought to a hospital, but he died days later. The killers were arrested two years later and sentenced in 1983.

Maher is due to be released in two weeks. Both and his cousin were given life sentences but these were commuted in 2012 by then-president Shimon Peres to 40 years.

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Abbas Arrives in Cairo for Egyptian-Palestinian-Jordanian Summit; UPDATE: They Met, Accomplished Nothing More

2021-09-03

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
arrived in Cairo on Wednesday to take part in a joint Egyptian-Paleostinian-Jordanian summit, which aims to unify their positions on the Paleostinian issue ahead of this month’s annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.

The summit will be attended by Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, and King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Accompanying Abbas on his visit to Cairo are Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Maliki, member of the Central Committee of Fatah movement Hussein al-Sheikh, the head of the Paleostinian General Intelligence Service, Major General Majid Faraj, and the president’s advisor for diplomatic affairs Majdi al-Khalidi.

Egyptian Youth Minister Ashraf Sobhi and a delegation from the Egyptian General Intelligence Service welcomed Abbas at Cairo International Airport.

Azzam al-Ahmad, member of the Paleostinian Fatah movement’s Central Committee, said the summit aims to coordinate the positions of the participating states on Paleostine.

"The summit will discuss the Paleostinian issue and the issue of moving forward the grinding of the peace processor with Israel," al-Ahmad said.

"It is necessary for the Quartet to carry out its duties before holding the session of the UN General Assembly, where President Abbas will chair the State of Paleostine delegation and will address a speech during the session," he added.

Update from An Nahar at 5 a.m. ET: They met, which was their only accomplishment.

Egypt's president held talks in Cairo on Thursday with the King of Jordan and the president of the Paleostinian Authority aimed at reviving the Middle East grinding of the peace processor and strengthening a ceasefire that halted the Israel-Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, war.

Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Paleostinian Authority's the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
discussed the elusive two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, according to a statement from el-Sissi's office. The three leaders said the Paleostinians have a right to an independent state, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel staunchly opposes such a plan.

In Thursday's talks, the Egyptian and Jordanian leaders also renewed their support of Abbas warning against the "dangerous repercussions" of the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the demolition of Paleostinian houses and the confiscation of land properties, read the statement. On his part, el-Sissi stressed that the establishment of a Paleostinian state requires the unification of all Paleostinian factions, added the statement.

The Islamic Death Eater group has controlled Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
since ousting Abbas' forces in 2007, a year after it defeated his Fatah party in Paleostinian parliamentary elections.

"We very much welcome the meeting of these three leaders," U.N. front man Stephane Dujarric said. "We hope it will lead to a positive outcome and a regain of traction of diplomacy in the Israeli‑Paleostinian conflict."

Relations remain tense, even though Israel's new coalition government, which includes an Arab party for the first time, has sought to keep things calm after the deadly war in May. Hamas responded to weeks of tensions in east Jerusalem by firing rockets, which triggered a withering Israeli assault on Gaza.

At least 260 Paleostinians were killed during the conflict, including 67 children and 39 women, according to the Gaza health ministry. Hamas has acknowledged the deaths of 80 Death Eaters. Twelve civilians, including two children, were killed in Israel, along with one soldier.

Egypt, which has played a key mediation role between Israel and Hamas over the years, mediated a truce. In recent weeks, stakeholders have stepped up their diplomatic efforts aimed at preventing another military outburst in the region. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Neftali Bennett has recently said that he will be visiting Egypt "soon" to hold talks with el-Sissi.

Last week after Bennett met with U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Abbas in Ramallah. Those talks signaled a possible shift after the near-complete breakdown in communication between Abbas and Israeli leaders in recent years.

The meeting was followed by the Israeli announcement of a series of gestures aimed at strengthening the Paleostinian Authority, including plans to loan $150 million to the cash-strapped autonomy government in the occupied West Bank.

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Palestinian Official: Washington Didn't Object to Abbas's Peace Plan

2021-04-12

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad said Saturday that the US administration has begun to move from the stage of rhetoric to action.

Ahmad, who is also a member of the Paleostinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Committee, also affirmed that Washington did not object to the peace plan presented by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
, which is based on holding an international peace conference.

In statements broadcast by the Paleostinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Ahmad said the US-Paleostinian political contacts are expected to develop soon.

His remarks came only a few days after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
decided to resume financial aid to the Paleostinians cut off by then-President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
The step indicates a major change in the new administration’s approach in addressing the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict. It is part of the administration’s "step-by-step" policy taken to restore relations with the Paleostinian Authority (PA).

According to Ahmad, restoring financial aid represented an implementation on the ground of the new US political stance.

Biden’s promise to press for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict and its restored aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) indicate clear humanitarian and political approaches, Ahmad said.

He further hailed the US administration for affirming its commitment to the two-state solution, noting that although contacts between the Paleostinians and the Biden administration have resumed, but Paleostinians expect these contacts to reach higher levels soon.

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Abbas rival Dahlan banned from running in Palestinian election — Fatah official

2021-01-28

[IsraelTimes] Former PA security chief doesn’t have a ’clean record,’ says Azzam al-Ahmad, referring to past conviction; Dahlan spokesperson vows to take ’message to the streets’.

Abbas issued a decree ordering the first national Paleostinian elections in more than 14 years earlier this month. Observers remain skeptical that the elections will actually take place.

Former Gazoo security chief Mohammad Dahlan — widely seen as a key rival of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
— will not be allowed to run in the upcoming Paleostinian presidential elections, a senior Paleostinian official told The Times of Israel.

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Egypt, Fatah, UN and Russia seek a truce in Islamic Jihad vs Israel action

2019-11-13

[IsraelTimes] Egyptian and UN officials on Tuesday night were pushing for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza terrorist groups, as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad vowed to step up attacks against the Jewish state in retaliation for the targeted killing of a PIJ terror chief... .

Mladenov "is heading urgently to Cairo," a diplomatic source told The Times of Israel on Tuesday night, adding that the international organization "has been involved throughout the day to de-escalate" tensions between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip. ...

The Ramallah-based Palestinian leadership has been in contact with Egypt and the United Nations to push for a ceasefire between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip, Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization official said earlier on Tuesday.
[IJ only launched a half dozen or so rockets between late evening on the 12th and dawn on the 13th]

Sure, but they lobbed about 200 from Monday night through Tuesday.
Update at 1:45 a.m. ET: The Times of Israel is liveblogging today’s events here.

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Abbas accepts Hamdallah’s resignation, asks government to stay on for transition

2019-01-30

[IsraelTimes] PA president reportedly set to begin consultations to name new ministers from PLO, ending unity bid with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
accepted the resignation of his prime minister Tuesday, but asked the government to stay on until a new one is formed.

PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his government tendered their resignations earlier Tuesday, marking the end of a failed unity bid with rival Hamas.

Abbas accepted the resignations but assigned Hamdallah and his fellow ministers the task of maintaining the PA government’s operations until the formation of a new one, the official PA news site Wafa reported.

The government’s decision to resign came two days after the Fatah Central Committee recommended the formation of a government made up of representatives of factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization and independent personalities, leaving out Hamas, a terror group that is the de facto ruler of the Gazoo Strip.

Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum condemned the government’s resignation on Tuesday, saying it was aimed at paving the way for the establishment of "a new separatist government" that serves Abbas and his Fatah party’s interests.

Abbas was set to begin consultations to form a government made up of PLO factions, with the goal of preparing for new legislative elections, Wafa reported. It is not clear who will be tapped as the next prime minister.

Abbas and other PA officials have recently pledged to hold new parliamentary elections in the coming six months, but how that would be possible in the Gazoo Strip is unclear. Hamas has controlled the coastal enclave since ousting the Fatah-dominated PA in 2007 from the territory.

Fatah Central Committee Member Azzam al-Ahmad said on Sunday that the Paleostinians planned to form a new government in response to Hamas not handing over the Gazoo Strip to the PA.

The Paleostinians formed the current PA government in 2014 with the support of Fatah and Hamas. Since its establishment, however, Abbas has carried out at least two cabinet reshuffles without Hamas’s consent.

Fatah and Hamas have been in disputes since 2007, when the terror group forcibly ousted the Fatah-dominated PA from Gazoo.

While the two rival parties have signed multiple agreements to advance reconciliation and bring Gazoo and the West Bank under one government, they have not implemented them.

Hamdallah, a former president of An-Najah University, where he was once an English professor, was expected to return to academic work, according to a Paleostinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Top Fatah official and Hezbollah leader meet in Lebanon

2019-01-18

[IsraelTimes] Azzam al-Ahmad and Sheikh Naim Qassem

... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
said to discuss need to counter US-Israeli ’attempts to end the Paleostinian national project’.

Top Fatah and Paleostine Liberation Organization official Azzam al-Ahmad met Deputy Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem in Leb, the official Paleostinian Authority news site Wafa reported on Thursday.

Senior Fatah and PLO officials do not frequently meet high-ranking Hezbollah leaders. The last known time Ahmad met a senior Hezbollah official was in late 2017, when he met Hassan Nasrallah, the terror group’s secretary-general.

In their meeting, Ahmad and Qassem affirmed "the need to fight against the American-Israeli attempts to end the Paleostinian national project," the Wafa report said.

Both the Paleostinians and Hezbollah have recently been highly critical of the US and Israel’s policies regarding the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.

Since shortly after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017 and initiated the relocation of the US embassy in the Jewish state to the city, PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
declared the Paleostinians would no longer work with an American-dominated grinding of the peace processor and called for the establishment of a multilateral mechanism to replace it.

In the wake of Trump’s decision, Abbas has invited a number of countries around the world to take part in a multilateral mechanism for the grinding of the peace processor and repeatedly said he would not consider an American plan.

Over the past two days, Ahmad has met several officials in Leb, including President

Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
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On Thursday afternoon, Ahmad did not answer phone calls.

Earlier this week, he also visited Syria, where he met Deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and attended the opening of a new office of Paleostine TV, the official PA channel, in Damascus.

At the opening of the Paleostine TV office, he told a Syrian newspaper that he believes Abbas will visit Syria in the near future.

"The visit of the President Mahmoud Abbas is possible at any time... I believe [it] will happen soon, if God wills it," he told al-Watan, a pro-Syrian government newspaper.

The PA president has not visited Syria or met Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
since civil war broke out in the country in 2011.

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