Sep 26 2014 - 10:17am Text of Fatah-Hamas agreement
September 26, 2014

Rival factions have reached agreement to allow the Palestinian Authority to operate in the Gaza Strip.

Sep 25 2014 - 11:28am Decades later, Camp David’s legacy remains debatable
September 25, 2014

Thirty-six years ago this month, Israel and Egypt negotiated the Camp David accords under the watchful eyes of US president Jimmy Carter, leading to an Egyptian-Israeli peace settlement.

Sep 25 2014 - 11:23am Palestinian unity gov't to take 'immediate control' of Gaza
September 25, 2014

Fatah, Hamas reach agreement settling recent rift: Hamas government employees in Gaza will be paid, and the management of the border crossing will be handed over to the unity government.​

Sep 25 2014 - 11:19am At UN, Obama talks conflict and peace in the Middle East, reaffirms 2-state commitment
September 25, 2014

The status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is "not sustainable," U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday told the United Nations General Assembly, "not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis" and not when "the lives of so many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza."

Sep 24 2014 - 10:52am In peace talks, Indyk describes America’s no-win dilemma
September 24, 2014

What was supposed to have revived the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks — allowing negotiations to develop organically — instead helped kill them, Martin Indyk, until recently the top U.S. peace broker, told JTA in a candid and wide-ranging interview.

Sep 24 2014 - 10:45am Palestinians meet in Cairo amid rift clouding Gaza truce chances
September 24, 2014

Palestinian factions met in Cairo on Wednesday for two days of talks aimed at mending a rift that could threaten Egyptian-mediated negotiations to turn the Gaza ceasefire into a lasting truce.​

Sep 24 2014 - 10:41am Kerry, Abbas meet in New York to discuss Gaza situation
September 24, 2014

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the situation in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli offensive, a state department official said.

Sep 23 2014 - 10:18am Abbas: Prime Minister Netanyahu, end the occupation, make peace
September 23, 2014

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Monday evening in New York he intends to present a new timetable for peace talks with Israel during his address to world leaders at the United Nations this week.

Sep 23 2014 - 10:13am Official: Cairo ceasefire talks still on
September 23, 2014

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar said Tuesday that the Palestinian delegation decided to go ahead with indirect ceasefire talks in Cairo despite deadly violence overnight.

Sep 23 2014 - 10:08am Israel says its troops kill Hamas men accused of slaying teens
September 23, 2014

Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday and the military said they were members of Hamas responsible for the killing of three Israeli youths in June, an attack that led to the Gaza war.


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