Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinian anger explodes in West Bank as Israeli warplanes continue to pound Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’s deadly cross-border raid.

Palestine Liberation Organization is the only legitimate representative of Palestinians, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly said.

Many obstacles stand in the way of a two-state solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. At the moment, negotiations are a nonstarter for all parties.

Unpopular after 11 years in power, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is starting to face some open machinations from would-be successors, as his dream of negotiating Palestinian statehood lies in tatters.

The upheaval sweeping the Middle East suggests that it will be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to resume the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and reach a successful outcome.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions and violence.

The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

With no end in sight to weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israeli PM Netanyahu headed to Germany for a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

The Palestinian president ignited an uproar in Israel on Thursday after falsely claiming that Israel had “executed” a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who is recovering in an Israeli hospital

The Palestine Liberation Organization on Monday postponed its internal leadership elections, two PLO officials said

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s and Palestinian Authority President Abbas’ presumed public commitment to a two-state solution means little unless they begin to undertake confidence-building measures to demonstrate their real intentions.

Israel vowed harsh retaliation Tuesday for a Palestinian attack that killed five people and left blood-smeared prayer books and shawls on the floor of a synagogue in Jerusalem — an assault that sharply escalated already-high tensions after weeks of religious violence.

Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval Wednesday to build 200 homes in a Jewish area of east Jerusalem, a move that threatened to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into conflict after weeks of unrest over the city’s holiest sites.

Israel closed all access to Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious site on Thursday, a rare move that ratcheted up already heightened tensions following the attempted assassination of a prominent Jewish religious activist and the killing of his suspected Palestinian assailant by police.

Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key participants said their efforts would be futile without a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians.