Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah, chaired a meeting of ... In an implicit criticism of Hamas, the Central Committee noted that the "occupation ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called Hamas “sons of dogs,” demanding the release of the remaining Israeli ...

But there is one thing none of them seem to understand: Hamas won’t surrender. To think that its leaders in Gaza will take the money and run, as Fatah once did, is to reveal, after 18 months of ...

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Uday Al Rabay, 22, was beaten and died after participating in an anti-Hamas protest in the Palestinian territories last week, said a senior officer affiliated with the opposition Fatah party ...

Mazen Shat, a senior police officer affiliated with Fatah from Ramallah and a vocal critic of Hamas, told The Telegraph Uday had been tortured for four hours, and was left with open wounds and ...

Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its armed wing ... city of Ramallah and is dominated by Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party. Israel unilaterally pulled out of Gaza in 2005.

Hamas leaders’ visit to Pakistan came soon after Ismail Haniyeh, the then chief of Hamas, had sought help from Pakistan in their fight against Israel. When Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31 ...

His remarks appear to be his greatest denunciation of Hamas since the war began and mark the apparent collapse of a July unity agreement signed in Beijing by Abbas’s Fatah, another political ...

Column Subscribers only 'Never has the Palestinian cause seemed so abandoned, lacking prospects and figures capable of embodying it' Ties between Abbas' Fatah party and Hamas have been marked by ...

Both are dominated by Fatah, which Abbas leads. Hamas was not party to the 1993 accords and does not recognize Israel. ‘Severe damage’ to the Palestinian cause In his speech, Abbas accused ...