The flag of Palestine has finally been raised at the United Nations headquarters in an apparent blow to the Israeli regime and the United States who opposed the move until the very last moment. A large crowd of diplomats and reporters watched on Wednesday as the flag was raised in New York at 1:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) The flag-raising came ...

The president of the Palestinian national unity government says Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. We will never recognize the Jewishness of Israel, Mahmud Abbas said at an extraordinary meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday. He added that negotiations with Israel have not ...

The United States has heavily criticized the president of Palestinian National Unity Government for his speech at the 2014 United Nations General Assembly. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday that Mahmud Abbas speech, in which he said Israel conducted a war of genocide in Gaza, was offensive. Israel unleashed aerial ...

[caption id="attachment_115382" align="alignright" width="242"] Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas recites a prayer in memory of those killed during the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip, ahead of a press conference on August 26, 2014 in the West Bank city of RamallahPalestinian president Mahmud Abbas recites a prayer in memory of those ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 27 (MNA) Speaking in front of the UN General Assembly on Thursday, the Palestinian president called on the organizations member states to put pressure on Israel, so that it would give up on its settlement construction program, seen as a major obstacle for current peace talks to end the decades-long conflict. Time is running out, the ...