The Palestinian Authority is to take full control of Gaza by December 1 under the agreement reached Thursday to end the split between Fatah and Hamas, Egypt’s government said in a statement. The two movements agreed to “enable the national unity government to carry out its work and assume its ...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will visit Gaza for the first time in a decade within a month, a top official in his Fatah party said on Thursday, after reconciliation talks with rival movement Hamas. Abbas “will be in Gaza within less than a month,” Zakaria al-Agha, a senior Fatah leader ...