Palestine

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday told U.S. peace envoy David Hale that there are no contradictions between the Palestinian reconciliation and peace with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday lashed at the Palestinian reconciliation deal reached between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, saying that the PNA needs to choose between the "path of Hamas or the path of peace."

Hamas's Gaza-based leadership on Wednesday challenged a Palestinian reconciliation deal signed by the Islamist group's political chief in exile and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah movement, Ahram Online reported.

President Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal penned an agreement in Qatar on Monday which will see the Fatah leader head

A Hamas delegation led by Mahmoud Zahhar headed to Qatar on Sunday night to take part in reconciliation talks,

Israel's prime minister will visit the United States in March, officials

Palestinian rivals have preliminarily accepted a Qatari proposal that President Mahmoud Abbas head an upcoming transitional government to end a chronic split, an official from Abbas's Fatah party said late Sunday.

Hamas officials say a senior member of the Palestinian militant group has left Syria because of the government's crackdown on an uprising there. Hamas officials said Sunday that Imad al-Alami could not guarantee his safety in Damascus and was expected to enter Gaza later in the day.

Influential Egyptian Muslim theologian Yususf al-Qaradawi on Friday stressed the necessity that the Rafah crossing between

Hundreds of Palestinians joined in a popular demonstration after Friday prayers in Qaryot village south of Nablus,

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has secretly met Khaled Mashaal, leader of the rival Hamas movement, in the Jordanian capital of Amman this week, a source said Friday.