Associated Press
| Mar 21, 2013
As a protest raged nearby, President Obama appeared at a West Bank press conference with Mahmoud Abbas to say the US is committed to the creation of a Palestinian state. Palestinians deserve statehood and an end to the indignities of Israeli occup...
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Mosaic
| Feb 26, 2013
The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in an Israeli jail last Saturday, which has led to allegations he was tortured, has placed the case of Palestinian prisoners under the spotlight. Dozens of detainees remain on hunger strike in ...
Al Jazeera
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Mosaic
| Jan 9, 2013
As a result of Palestine's new non-member state observer status at the UN, the Palestinian Ministry of Information has asked media outlets to begin using the title The State of Palestine instead of Palestinian Authority. President Mahmoud Abbas ha...
Euronews
| Jan 4, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been taking part in a rare rally staged by President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group in Gaza. The demonstration marks 48 years since the secular Fatah's founding as the spearhead of the Palestinians' fight a...
Euronews
| Nov 29, 2012
The UN General Assembly has decided to upgrade Palestine from an observer to non-member status. There was joy from many inside the Assembly in New York, especially from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The 193 member states voted ove...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 29, 2012
An overwhelming 138 states at the UN General Assembly supported the resolution to recognize Palestine as a non-member state, while nine states voted against and 41 abstained.
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 29, 2012
A draft resolution calling for Palestinians to be given upgraded UN status is being introduced to General Assembly. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the gathering, and is greeted by loud cheers. "The international communit...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 29, 2012
Thousands of Palestinians have held celebrations in the West Bank and elsewhere, hours before a vote at the UN General Assembly that is widely expected to give Palestine upgraded membership status at the world body. The demonstrations have largely...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 29, 2012
The United Nations is set to approve the Palestinian Authority's bid to upgrade its status to "non-member state" by a resounding margin, strengthening its claim to statehood. But on the streets of Ramallah, few expect the move will bring real chan...
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...sort of government that the Palestinian Authority has more in common with than democratic systems such as that of Israel and the United States. ...
— Dec 12, 2012 at 04:14 pm
...“significant step.” “Now is the time to restore permanent peace in the region,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on December 1, ad...
— Apr 16 at 05:22 am
...status. On November 29, 2012, the 193-member assembly voted 138-9 with 41 abstentions at the UN headquarters in New York to upgrade Palestine’s ...
Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, an Arab of the Sunni-Muslim faith, has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket.
Mahmoud Abbas was elected to serve until 9 January 2009, due to Palestinian Internal conflict he unilaterally extended his term for another year and continues in office even after that second deadline expired. As a result of this, Fatah's main rival, Hamas announced that it would not recognise the extension or view Abbas as rightful president. Abbas was chosen as the President of the State of Palestine by the Palestine Liberation Organization's Central Council on 23 November 2008, a job he had held unofficially since 8 May 2005. Abbas served as the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to October 2003 when he resigned citing lack of support from Israel and the United States as well as "internal incitement" against his government. Before being named prime minister, Abbas led the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department.
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