Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrived in Riyadh to meet with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Palestinians worry over ‘normalisation’ of Arab-Israeli ties
Benjamin Netanyahu met with Oman’s Sultan Qaboos late Thursday, an encounter that was kept secret until after he returned to Israel
Gaza
US to cut $25m in aid to hospitals serving Palestinians
Trump administration this year cut funds to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and scrapped around $200 million in payments by USAID to the Palestinians
Chris Gunness
Gallery: US aid cut to UN Palestinian refugee agency
UNRWA, established in 1949, was already facing financial crisis after Trump announced a $300 million funding freeze in January. The agency, which helps more than five million registered Palestinian refugees, says it now faces major closures to its network of schools and health centres.
Chris Gunness
Palestinian anger as US ends funding for UN agency
The move by President Donald Trump’s administration was described as ‘cruel and irresponsible’ by senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi.
Antonio Guterres
Gallery: New school year starts in occupied West Bank and Gaza City
Tens of thousands of Palestinian children returned to United Nations-run schools on Wednesday after the summer holidays, though major US cuts have thrown their funding into jeopardy beyond next month. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said all 711 schools it runs for 526,000 pupils in Gaza and the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria would reopen in the next few days despite the $300 million US funding cut.
Ahed Tamimi
Video: Palestinian Ahed Tamimi on her months in prison
The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero’s welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what’s thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet.
Ahed Tamimi
Gallery: Crowds greet Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi after freed from jail
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi left prison Sunday and was greeted by crowds of supporters after serving eight months for slapping Israeli soldiers, an episode that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians. Tamimi, 17, and her mother Nariman, who was also jailed over the incident, arrived in their village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank, where they were mobbed by journalists.
Ahed Tamimi
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi jailed for slapping soldiers leaves prison
Ahed Tamimi and her mother were sentenced to eight months in an Israeli military court following a plea deal over the December incident
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UN Palestinian agency to axe 250 jobs after US funding cuts
154 employees in the occupied West Bank and 113 in the Gaza Strip will be let go, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said
Gaza Strip
Palestinian president Abbas remains in hospital: officials
Spokeswoman for the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said the 83-year-old was doing well but there was no timeframe for his discharge as yet
Gaza
Palestinians withdraw envoy to US over Israel embassy move
Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, would return to the Palestinian territories Wednesday,
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Modi to meet Palestinian leader during Middle East tour
Indian PM will address a summit in Dubai on Saturday
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In pictures: $17.5m Palestinian presidential palace to be turned into a national library
The presidential palace near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank after Palestinian officials announced a project to transform the building into a national library.