Palestinian voters will elect a new Legislative Council on January 25. cfr.org offers a brief primer on the workings of the Palestinian Authority government. The Palestinian Legislative Council ...

Al-Sheikh, also known as Abu Jihad, is part of a new generation of Palestinian leaders raised in the Israeli-occupied territories after the 1967 war. He rose quickly through the ranks of Fatah and the ...

Concern is growing within the Palestinian Liberation Organization that Israel might exploit Abbas’s departure.

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Think Abbas, who has been running the P.A. as an autocrat, intends to share power with his newly elected vice president, Hussein al-Sheikh? Think again.The post Palestinian leaders play musical ...

Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, claimed on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday that the IDF was being dishonest about the 19 terrorists eliminated on Saturday during ...

According to LAW, security forces assaulted Palestinian Legislative Council members and journalists, and at least one person was hospitalized. Legislative Council members who attempted to visit ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to appoint Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation ...

Writing in the Al-Jazeera Arabic website, Areeb al-Rantawi offers a critical analysis of the PLO Central Council meeting, ...

(MENAFN) The Palestinian National Council, the supreme legislative authority of the broader Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), appealed on Sunday for urgent safeguards for media personnel in ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Wednesday that if the presidency were to become vacant, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the ...