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Mahmoud Abbas turns 90, weakened by Israel and deeply unpopular

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turns 90 weakened, unpopular and sidelined, as the PA loses influence in the West Bank and remains blocked from postwar Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 November, 2025
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France
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No legal basis for France's extradition bid for Al-Adra: lawyer

The New Arab Staff
13 November, 2025
Palestinians continue their lives amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and limited living conditions after returning to Khan Yunis, which was heavily damaged by two years of Israeli attacks, on November 10, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Gaza ceasefire deal
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Divisions and deadlock stall Gaza's reconstruction efforts

The New Arab Staff

Mahmoud Abdelrahman

11 November, 2025
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Analysis
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Abbas's succession decree: Masking the PA's crisis of legitimacy

Aseel Mafarjeh
05 November, 2025
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Marwan Barghouti
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Why Marwan Barghouti's shadow hangs over Palestine's future

Alessandra Bajec
28 October, 2025
Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant" attack, a bombing and shooting attack on a Jewish restaurant during a ceremony marking its 42nd anniversary of the attack in Paris, on August 9, 2024.
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Suspect in 1982 attack on Paris restaurant arrested in West Bank

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 September, 2025
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends the opening of the Istishsari cancer centre in Ramallah on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
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UN allows PA's Abbas to speak via video after US denies visa

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 September, 2025
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'Emirate of Hebron': Is Israel planning to divide the West Bank?

Issam Rimawi
10 September, 2025
sraeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich displays a map of an area near the settlement of Maale Adumim, a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, on August 14, 2025
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Smotrich calls for PA to 'disappear from the map'

The New Arab Staff
09 September, 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) poses with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (L) at the beginning of their meeting at 10 Downing Street in London
Mahmoud Abbas
World
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UK's Starmer meets Mahmoud Abbas ahead of Palestine recognition

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 September, 2025
France's President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron
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France's Macron urges US to revise decision on Palestinian visas

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 September, 2025
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World
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Abbas, 80 PA officials have US visas revoked: State Department

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 August, 2025
Smoke rises over residential buildings following the Israeli attack on ez-Zeytun and Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza on August 23,2025
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Israel deliberately continuing genocide, starvation of Gaza: PA

The New Arab Staff
24 August, 2025
People carry flags of Hamas and Fatah as they attend a funeral held in the village for 18-year-old Palestinian Hamdan Musa Muhammad Abu Aliya
Occupied West Bank
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Palestinians bury teen killed by Israeli army near Ramallah

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 August, 2025
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MENA
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Who is Samir Hulileh, the businessman Israel wants to run Gaza?

Sally Ibrahim
14 August, 2025
Samir Hulileh
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MENA
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Israeli lobby pushes for ex-PA official to govern postwar Gaza

The New Arab Staff
12 August, 2025
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist Israeli politician
Itamar Ben-Gvir
MENA
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Ben-Gvir calls for toppling of PA, calls Abbas 'terrorist'

The New Arab Staff
10 August, 2025
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 5 : The Palestinian flag is seen during a rally as People take part to a protest against the war in the world and the military policy pursued by Japan and the USA in Asia, and the risk of a nuclear war against China on August 5, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan. People also expressed their opposition against the city of Hiroshima whose Mayor, Matusi Kazumi, had decided to invite Israel to the peace ceremony commemorating the 79th anniversary of the atomic bomb tragedy in Hiroshima, on Aug
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Palestinian delegation attends Hiroshima ceremony for first time

The New Arab Staff
06 August, 2025
The US decision came amid a push at the UN to recognise the State of Palestine
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US to deny visas to Palestinian officials amid statehood support

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 August, 2025
Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point near the Zikim border crossing in a desperate attempt to receive limited flour supplies in Gaza City, Gaza, on July 29, 2025.
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Qatar, Saudi, Egypt urge Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 July, 2025
A 'Game of Thrones' in Ramallah: Has Israel picked Abbas's heir?
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A 'Game of Thrones' in Ramallah: Has Israel picked Abbas's heir?

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Yara Hawari

15 July, 2025