Palestinian politicians, including from Fatah, harshly criticised this week's meeting between Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz.
The measures were announced a day after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Defence Minister Benny Gantz in a rare visit to Tel Aviv.
Polling stations in 154 village councils in the occupied West Bank are open until 7:00 pm, with some 405,000 people eligible to vote.
Palestine does not accept the classification of six civil society organizations as terrorist groups says Palestinian president.
For the first time in over a decade, Israel approved the legal status of some Palestinians who live in the West Bank. The ones who didn’t get the notification hope it won’t take another 12 years.
At least 250 prisoners held by Israel start a hunger strike to protest their relocation to isolated cells, officials say.
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Freij are the second group of the Israeli cabinet members to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since the new Israeli government took office in June.
Israel is "destroying prospect of political settlement based on two-state solution through its illegal settlements in occupied West Bank," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells UN General Assembly.
The security personnel have been formally accused of "beatings causing death, abuse of power and violations of security instructions," says Palestinian security service spokesman Talal Dweikat.
After meetings with Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that he is ready to restore calm in the Palestinian territories. Three states will work together for a vision aimed at resuming negotiations.
The highest-level meeting between Palestine and Israel comes days after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with US President Joe Biden in the White House, during which Biden reiterated support for a two-state solution.
"Brother Ismail Haniyeh was re-elected as the head of the movement's political office for a second time," one official says. His term will last four years.
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