Egyptian and Palestinian leaders have met amid signs of a rapprochement between Cairo and the Hamas resistance group. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi met Sunday. Officials close to Abbas said the Palestinian leader had requested the meeting to seek clarifications on what appears to be an emerging ...
UNESCO has declared the Old City of al-Khalil (Hebron) a protected heritage site in a secret ballot despite Israeli attempts to thwart the vote. On Friday, the UN’s cultural arm voted 12 to three — with six abstentions — to give heritage status to al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, ...