יום רביעי, כ״ב אב תשפ״וWednesday, August 5, 2026
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The voices calling for the PA chairman’s departure have increased in the past year, especially since he ordered the cancellation of the elections in 2021 while holding his seat without elections for more than 17 years, and using “dictatorship and repressive methods” as claimed by many on the Palestinian Authority street.
By Ariel Kahana
“There’s nothing left of Palestinian democracy,” says attorney Maurice Hirsch, the head of legal strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, which produced the report.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The European Union has shifted its support for the PA’s illegal activity from construction to agricultural takeover, which occupies the maximum area with minimum investment.
UN Watch report says the P.A. and Hamas routinely torture human rights activists, women, members of the LGBT community, political opponents, “collaborators” with Israel, and Palestinians who sell land to Jews.
By Ariel Kahana
State official says the government is prepared to present existing financial agreements with Ramallah to the High Court of Justice, but only "behind closed doors."
“Israel is falsifying the facts and history in the most despicable manner. . Israel has not succeeded in proving that it has history in this city. . .excavations have not proven there is a Temple in the city."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden release joint statement citing “insufficient evidence” to support the designation • U.N. threatens to blacklist Israel following report on deaths of Palestinian Authority minors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The measures, which include the approval of six Palestinian Authority building plans in Judea and Samaria, “de facto puts Area C under the control of the P.A.,” says Gush Etzion Regional council head.
Ahmed, a resident of Gaza said that “here in Gaza under Hamas rule, it is better for you to convert to Judaism and leave Islam and even better to be perceived as a spy for the Israeli Shin Bet and not declare your gay."
For the first time in years, a Prime Minister of Israel, Yair Lapid, spoke directly with PLO / Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas.
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at HRW pointed out that “systematic abuse by the PA and Hamas forms a critical part of the repression of the Palestinian people.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The president of the Shurat Hadin NGO, whose attorneys represented the families in the case, hails “another huge victory of ours over terror.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They warned that a downgrade would undermine U.S. national security, as well as risk the peace and stability of Israel and the PA.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PA security forces uncovered what they claim was a Hamas bomb lab following a mysterious blast near Ramallah
The EU withdrew all their previous demands for reform of the PA for their terror funding and anti-Israel school curriculum.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority officer who sold weapons to the agent wanted to ensure the weapons were sold to harm Jews.
The move comes as Israel continues to try and stop efforts by some in the Biden administration to reopen the US consulate in downtown Jerusalem and transform it into a mission to the PA.
IMPACT-se has found the promotion of violence, martyrdom and jihad in “all grades and subjects.”
The unrest is due to a sharp rise in bread and oil prices, which have risen by more than 30%, and fuel prices have also risen.
The bill came about after PLO terrorist flags were being waved on Israeli university campuses.
Another example of Gaza/Hamas declaring their independence from the Palestinian Authority.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The arrested PA officer is the brother of an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was jailed for dispatching 2 suicide bombers which murdered 31 people.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA says they [alone] will inform everyone of the results of their investigation.
The Palestinian Authority considers the EU’s conditions a dangerous step and a submission to Israeli dictates.
The man had a Jericho pistol and bullets.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Defense chiefs have no objection to the move, according to an Israeli media report.
The PA expelled the Bedouin from the Moon City area to build their vacation village.
The killing of three terrorists in Shechem embarrassed the Palestinian Authority.
In the 12 years since the unveiling of the Fayyad Plan, the PA has built 100 new and illegal schools in Area C.
By Aryeh Savir & Baruch Yedid / Tazpit News Agency
There are no weapon stores in the PA, so any private weapons were either stolen or smuggled in.
The PLO Central Council will convene on Sunday night for its 31st session, but of its 142 members, many are expected to boycott it due to internal disputes within the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. secretary of state said Israelis and PA Arabs deserve to “enjoy equal measures of security, freedom and prosperity.”
Hamas is taking advantage of the incident to slam the PA.
By Israel Hayom
Following reports of vandalism at dozens of heritage and archaeological sites in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Elkin calls conservation of sites a “national mission.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PA residents rely ever more on local and tribal frameworks to handle their affairs.
Yet another serious corruption case involving senior PA officials.
Missing money, land deals, nepotism and more.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Netherlands found what it called a “worrisome” number of board members linked to the PFLP, in addition to the fact that two employees were arrested in connection to a bombing that killed an Israeli in 2019.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It is widely believed among PA economists and officials that a unilateral cancellation of the agreements with Israel will bring disaster to the PA’s economy.
Hamas is anticipating what it sees as the strong possibility that the Palestinian Authority may soon collapse.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In recent years, Israel has been promoting legal action against elements working to help the PA advance its objective in Jerusalem, including those involved in financing or hosting PA events in the city.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials met virtually on Tuesday to renew the US-Palestinian Economic Dialogue (USPED), the first such meeting in five years.
Jerusalem Arabs do not want the neighborhoods they live in transferred to Palestinian Authority rule.
The Palestinian Authority declared that President Herzog “broke into the Ibrahimi Mosque and defiled it,” an act tantamount to a “declaration of war.”
3 children were killed on Friday by an illegal unregistered Arab car who made an illegal u-turn.
PA revenue during the first 10 months of 2021 were the highest in its history.
The PA's net income for the first 10 months of 2021 totaled NIS 11,391,800,000, reflecting a rise of NIS 1.798 billion in comparison to 2019.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This step is part of a broad plan to strengthen and improve the economic ties between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Israel’s Minister of Regional Cooperation Issawi Frej claimed earlier this week that the PA was contemplating making changes to its policy of paying monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
There is no Israeli consent to these plans, and no permits were provided for these projects. Most of the projects are slated for areas under full Israeli control.
Haniyeh said that Hamas also demands a partnership in Palestinian Authority government institutions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The list includes 425 Jordanian products to be offered duty-free to the Palestinian Authority controlled territories. Another 329 products will also be exempt from customs if they meet Israeli technical requirements.
Four years ago, the PA owed 2 billion NIS in electric bill fees.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The law would have imposed prison sentences for those working to remove Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The bill also includes the annual $3.3 billion in military assistance for Israel as part of the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Israel under the Obama administration.
By Ariel Kahana
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israelis who have lost loved ones to terror warn that a consulate in Jerusalem for the Palestinians would be a “complete Trojan horse.”
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Beijing will accept whatever we accept, but knows we “want to make Israel swallow the poison one drop at a time,” says Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki.
The Biden administration knows it does not have domestic support to completely "unrecognize" Jerusalem—so it is catering to far-left demands by undoing the natural consequences of recognition.
Escaping terrorist stickers were placed on the ground outside of Israel Prison Service headquarters to protest lenient conditions for terrorists (aka security prisoners).
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Meretz minister of Health believed it was more important to meet with the head of the PLO than to sit in the cabinet meeting on the Coronavirus.
Demolition orders like the one for Arugot Farm’s vineyard are just one way the Bennett-Lapid government is moving toward establishing a hostile Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
The PA understands it must be patient and play along until Yair Lapid replaces Naftali Bennett.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The meeting with Abbas is “the most worrying development since the formation of the government. And it takes place a few hours after the return of Naftali Bennett to Washington”.
The Palestinian Authority announced that all Mosques in Hebron would be closed today, except for the one in the Jewish people's Tomb of the Patriarchs.
By Ariel Kahana
Administration officials have worked to delay a bill proposed by Knesset member Nir Barkat, which if passed into law would essentially prevent the move from materializing.
PA Banks don't want to transfer the money to Hamas terrorists which opens them up to being shut down.
The Palestinian Authority pays a monthly alary to all the terrorists involved in the attack.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The banks seem to be concerned by the prospect of being exposed to terror-financing legal action.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. is delaying the move to avoid destabilizing Bennett's government.
"Every prisoner or Martyr will be given an ATM card that will enable it to go and withdraw [salaries] at any time, day or night – this will make things easier for them."
The Europeans are getting discouraged with Mahmoud Abbas.
Jordan and Egypt have been working behind the scenes in recent months and since the entry of Joe Biden into the White House, to bring about a political, Israeli-Palestinian Authority summit under the auspices of the Quartet and an international conference.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Those receiving funds will receive cards for withdrawing money from the P.A. postal bank using ATM machines.
By David Isaac
Hamas is also turning up the heat, hoping to one day seize control of the West Bank from Fatah as it did in Gaza.
Nizar Banat was arrested in Hebron by PA security forces over the weekend and tortured to death. He died less than an hour after he was arrested.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research study also finds 60 percent of Palestinians now support “armed struggle” over diplomacy.
According to US law, to be eligible for funding from the Economic Support Fund (ESF), the PA must not “initiates an International Criminal Court judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.”
Whoever has the hand on the faucet of the rehabilitation money will have tremendous influence in Gaza.
Hamas has become very influential and noticeable among the Arabs in Jerusalem.
The green flag [Hamas] demonstrations in al-Aqsa mosque have shocked the Palestinian Authority leadership.
Hamas wants the Arab terror focused on Jerusalem, and then they hope, in Judea and Samaria.
Social media users are humiliating the PA and calling its security apparatus “the Zionists’ dogs.”
Arab residents are blaming the PA for using them as pawns in their battle against Israel, when they knew Jews owned the properties.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group, however, says it recognizes “the challenges involved with attempting to integrate Palestinian factions committed to nonviolence and diplomacy with those, like Hamas, that have frequently engaged in violence and terror.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An IMPACT-se report showed that PA school textbooks have “consistently shown a systematic insertion of violence, martyrdom and jihad across all grades and subjects.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas is projected to win the elections in Judea and Samaria.
If Abu Mazen postpones the election, he is expected to face a confrontation with Hamas.
Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks criticized Democrats for sharing the stage with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, calling him a Holocaust denier and longtime funder of terrorism.
Abbas wants to cancel the upcoming elections, while the Biden administration will allegedly emphasize the demand for democracy in the Palestinian Authority.
By Israel Hayom
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, 85, was slated to fly to Germany.
Abu Mazen is supposedly looking for a way to cancel the elections.
Sources claim the decision was the result of a warning by Israel's Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority continues to pay large salaries to jailed terrorists rather than properly invest in health care for its citizens.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 120,000 PA Arabs will be vaccinated by Israeli medical teams with Moderna vaccines, which have been allocated by the state, at eight different locations throughout Judea and Samaria.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hundreds of workers arrived at the eight locations on Monday to receive the first of their two shots.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court’s decision to investigate Israel for war crimes “shattered the monopoly on pain Israel purported to have,” says P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The PA Healthy Ministry insisted that only 10% of the vaccines were given to PA security personnel, soccer players, government officials and members of the PLO.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority objects to making Cave of the Patriarchs accessible to people with disabilities.
Arab activists also claim that some of the Covid-19 vaccines have been sold on the black market for as much as NIS 500 per dose.
The vaccines the Palestinian Authority received went to the PA leadership and their close associates.
July 31, 2026 
