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Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah (Reuters)

Palestinian Government to Visit Gaza on Monday to End Division

by Kifah Ziboun | Oct 1, 2017 | Middle East

Rammallah– Palestinian Authority security forces are laying the final touches for the expected visit of Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah to Gaza Strip on Monday. In addition, several engineers and workers are finishing the work needed to prepare the residence of...

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Turkish army’s Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar, center left, escorts Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre during an inauguration ceremony of the Turkish military base in Mogadishu on September 30, 2017. (AFP photo)

Turkey Opens Largest Foreign Military Base in Somalia

by Khalid Mahmoud | Oct 1, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo– Turkey inaugurated its largest foreign military base in the world on Saturday in Mogadishu, Somalia, in a ceremony attended by Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, head of the Turkish military General Hulusi Akar, Somali leaders, and top Turkish military...

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FILE PHOTO: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Hamas Gaza Chief Yahya Al-Sinwar attend a ceremony announcing a new policy document, in Gaza City May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo

Yehya Sinwar: We Want a Strong Abbas, Will not Allow Anyone to Obstruct Reconciliation

by Kifah Ziboun | Sep 29, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – The head of Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, Yehya Sinwar, threatened to “break the neck of anyone who would disrupt reconciliation” between his movement and Fatah, saying he wanted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to be “strong, not weak”. His...

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Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah talks to media after the first unity government meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 3, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Hamdallah: We Will Not Accept any Derogation from Government’s Work in Gaza

by Kifah Ziboun | Sep 27, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah– Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said his government wanted to assume full responsibility of the Gaza Strip and to extend its power over all sectors. “The government of National Reconciliation will assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip,...

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Bullet holes riddled an Israeli security post at the entrance to Har Adar, where a Palestinian man killed three Israelis on Tuesday before he was fatally shot. AFP

Palestinian Gunman Kills Three Israeli Soldiers near Jerusalem

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 27, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened, at the beginning of the weekly ministerial meeting, to demolish the house of the Palestinian Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal, 37, who killed three soldiers from the Israeli Border Police. Netanyahu also...